Designs done on tablets come to Life
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Incorporating Tablets in Science
Remote Control
One of the challenges of the the Robotics course is being able to program the robots on the go. With the Lego Mindstorms Commander App on the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 students will be allowed to interact with their EV3 robots via bluetooh communication. This project will begin in January with Ms. Hines's Middle School Robotics class. Programming the robots will still need to be done on the computer until the mobile version of the software is released.
Video Timer
As we brainstormed creative ways to implement the tablet in science class, we were working on speed and distance project using hover pucks. Class was held in the gym which called for the mobility of technology. The project required students to use time and distance to determine speed. We decided to test out the video feature on the tablets and use it as the timer instead of a stopwatch. We gave a table to each team of students and they spread out around the gym. Using pre-dertimined distances marked on the floor, student released the hover pucks and recorded them using the Samsung Galaxy Notes 10.1. The timing feature for the captured video worked perfectly allowing students to keep a visual back up of the data they would record throughout the project.
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Media Note Taking
8th Grade Science students got into the act as they explored Newton's Laws while experimenting with balanced forces. As they attempted to build balanced towers, students took pictures and video of the successful and not so successful building process and annoted over the images to analyze the applied forces to determine the balanced nature of the tower. The annoted images were turned in as an assignment to demonstrate student's understanding how Newton's First Law can be applied to balanced forces.