Understanding Mechanical Devices and Their Components

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Understanding Mechanical Devices and Their
Components
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Peter, Rob, and Tamisha
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Class Profile

• Elective engineering class
• 23 students
• 21 males
• 2 females

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Objectives

• Given a review of the contributions of Leonardo
  da Vinci, a set of e-activities on those
  contributions and set of virtual tutorials on
  mechanical components, the students were asked to
  identify the mechanical elements that cause
  common machines to function.

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Sequence of Events

• Review of the Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci
• Inventors Workshop Activities
• Pair up and select tutorial
• Worksheet in conjunction with tutorial
• Presentation to the class on tutorial

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Implementation

• We designed and created a web page linking each
  activity and tutorial to facilitate ease of
  instruction and limit distractions.
• engineer.html

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Implementaion
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Implementation
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Implementation
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Assessment of Understanding

• Completed Worksheets

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Assessment of Understanding

• Presentations

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Reflection

• Successes
• High level of student engagement
• Enthusiastic cooperating teacher response
• Appropriate content alignment

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Reflection

• Improvements
• Timing
• Content familiarity