Aamir Ashiqali, Reilly Elementary School

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• Aamir Ashiqali, Reilly Elementary School
• Chris Etapa, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy
• Suzanne Olds, Biomedical Engineering Department,
  Northwestern University
• ASEE K12 Workshop
• June 17, 2006

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Session Agenda

• General Overview
• History plus introductions
• Challenge
• Structure of unit
• Legacy Cycle
• Hands-on activity - Disability Awareness

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Overview

• 2-5 week hands-on engineering challenge to middle
  school students
• Addresses many state and national learning
  standards in science, math, technology, language
  arts, and social science

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Challenge

• Shown in separate window

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Structure of the unit
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Lesson Format

• Some lessons take more than one day
• All lessons are now in the structure of the
  Legacy Cycle

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What is a Legacy Cycle?

• An instructional framework that incorporates
  findings from educational research on how people
  best learn.
• 4 centerednesses of How People Learn (HPL)
• Knowledge-centeredness
• Student-centeredness
• Assessment-centeredness
• Community-centeredness

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Legacy Cycle Steps

• Challenge - Question that engages the students
  and requires them to look at current knowledge
  and preconceptions.
• Generate Ideas An activity that causes students
  to display and compile their current
  knowledge/ideas/perceptions.
• Multiple Perspectives - Other resources that
  provide information related to the topic of the
  challenge.
• Research and Revise Activities that students
  engage in to help students revise their original
  ideas based on new information
• Test Your Mettle Formative assessments that
  enable students evaluate the depth of their
  learning ? Research and Revise.
• Go Public - Final conclusion(s) that students
  display.

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Its your turn

• Lesson 3 will be distributed
• Chris will give an overview of entire lesson
• You will do the Disability Awareness activity
  embedded in this lesson.

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Lesson 3 Overview

• Main challenge What features should your
  prosthesis include?
• Legacy cycle format
• 4 activities in Research and Revise
• Disability Awareness Activity
• Afghan, Culture, Geography, and Demographics
• Cross Cultural Comparisons Activity
• Artificial Limbs PowerPoint slides/discussion
• Extension Activities