Tinkering Puff The Pop-Up Origami Rover: Remembering Children's Contraptions - Softcover

Olson Ph.D., Meredith

9780998462783: Tinkering Puff The Pop-Up Origami Rover: Remembering Children's Contraptions

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ISBN 10: 0998462780 ISBN 13: 9780998462783

Verlag: Glenhaven Publications, 2017

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For more than forty years we have involved all 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th,and 8th graders in our Engineering Event. We start with a theme found somewhere in the news and explore the idea for five weeks. This year NASA announced that it would build a PUFFER micro-robot to fit inside a rover. PUFFER. That’s Pop Up Flat Folding Exploration Robot. And it is based on origami folding. What did we know about origami? Well, we made paper cranes in the second grade, but that is about all we knew. So, what is the Miura fold? We found it is the most common fold used in origami engineering today. We all learned how to make the Miura fold and use it in the wacky inventions we created. We tinkered. We used left over junk such as pie pan lids and syringe systems. And we sang. “Puff the pop-up rover!” Singing helps – when you are not cheering for some rig that just moved ten floor tiles. Singing about Puff made us think of dragons and dragon wings, so we each made a set of wings for ourselves and then a Miura-ori hut to “live” in. We had to power our rover with rubber bands. But how to fold the wheels? For that we explored pneumatics. Not hydraulics – no water spills in the classroom. Tinkering. Messing around with stuff. Designing new devices – and laughing at our cleverness. Wacky, weird, wonderful ideas. And using tools. Real tools. Hammers, vice grips, glue guns, the drill press. Measuring and marking, cutting, assembling and finishing. We even made a bending jig for our chassis. Indispensible understanding for future cleverness. The fully engaging making of stuff. DocOsBooks.com

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About the Author Meredith Olson Ph.D. Dr. Meredith Olson, known affectionately as Doc "O" to her students, has taught elementary, middle school and high school math and science in Seattle for nearly 60 years. Her primary goal is in improvement of pre-college engineering education. By going to lab to work on contraptions every day, her students come to understand properties of the mechanical world. “It has been a long and interesting trip. Studying some metallurgy in grad school. Evening classes. After a full day of high school teaching. Consulting for JPL as the Mars Pathfinder Educator. Weekends. Working in the summer with UNESCO in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Uganda. Teaching dozens of weekend and week-long summer teacher workshops in South Carolina and Montana. Being a consultant and curriculum designer for Health and Physiology education in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Being a summer adjunct University instructor for more than 20 years in Seattle, Idaho and Montana. Teaching teachers. Teaching students every day, every year for 59 years. Observing how learning happens. Becoming aware when real learning isn’t happening. When it is just “show.” When it is just teacher–pleasing to get a grade. To get a credit. To get a university degree.” See Dr. Olson’s open letter outlining her philosophy of lesson design, available on the JPL website - Exploring Preface pp 11-13 http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/education/modules/GS/GS07-19_preface.pdf Dr. Olson believes that children must construct their own understanding from active design and assemblage of contraptions. By testing, failing, remodeling, and trying again, we come to see the structure when we look. By carefully examining materials we have, we may perceive how to use them in new and unexpected ways. Children begin to understand the engineering process. Besides, it is fun!

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