Comments on: MFM1P Final Task – School Design http://teachercalder.ca/2015/06/mfm1p-final-task-school-design/ Teacher by trade. Learner by nature. Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:40:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: jean http://teachercalder.ca/2015/06/mfm1p-final-task-school-design/#comment-134 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:34:04 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=831#comment-134 Could be the course!

]]> By: jaccalder http://teachercalder.ca/2015/06/mfm1p-final-task-school-design/#comment-133 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:34:06 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=831#comment-133 Thanks Jean!!!

I think the pool may be one of those “unfulfilled dreams” 🙂

We totally ran out of time for this project – I should definitely have allocated more time to this. Students informally shared their designs, explaining why they made some choices, their scale, etc. Unfortunately, I did not document those digitally.

My learning from this project:
– bring our guest speakers in much, much earlier and complete the task in parts over the semester
– research different designs to break students out of their mindset that schools are square and linear
– convert the Minecraft designs to be printed on 3D printer as well
– beg our awesome design tech teacher to do an intro/tour of Autodesk Revit
– in general, allocate much, much more time!
– record the final presentations/discussions/reflections

I wasn’t expecting to get so much valuable information and so many neat tools from our guest speakers – the project kind of grew beyond my original plans.

It looks like I may end up with a MPM1D next year, so perhaps I can adapt the task to suit next years students too!

Thanks again and paddle on! 🙂

]]> By: jean http://teachercalder.ca/2015/06/mfm1p-final-task-school-design/#comment-132 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:02:04 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=831#comment-132 Very cool Jac. What did John think of the pool?!
Did the students do any refections on the project?

Have a wonderful summer. Dip that paddle and enjoy the silence.

Jean

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