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The kids had an amazing time working on The Balance, and I was happy to see that almost all of them, including our new students, understood the material well and finished on time. The Balance helps the kids understand the concept of weight measurement. Also, their homework allows them to sharpen their math skills. Next week we will be working on The Hammer and will introduce new concepts.
Build the Lego hammer, mimic the nail drive, make a presentation. Students conducted the experiment to observe how many times are needed to hit the axis into the anvil. During the experiment, the students need to change the cam wheel position, so the potential energy of the hammer varies thus the kinetics energy. The STEM information behind this section is the energy transformation between the potential and kinetics energy as well as friction forces. All the students finished the model building part and did the experiment with different level. Did you see some rolling hammer car before? here you go! Kevin build a very unique hammer car!
We build a hammer today. The hammer is used to punch the nail into the gear, by which we can feel what the friction is and how different friction in different gear. Students first built a Lego hammer, which can be used to mimic the nail drive. They conducted the experiment to observe how many times are needed to hit the axis into the anvil. During the experiment, the students need to change the cam wheel position, so the potential energy of the hammer varies thus the kinetics energy. The STEM information behind this section is the energy transformation between the potential and kinetics energy as well as friction forces. All the students finished the model building part and did the experiment with different level. They enjoyed this section. After that, some of them change their hammer to a car or some hammer car or car hammer…. LOL what a great idea!
Tutor Paul
The kids took their time to work on The Hammer. Even though the work was more challenging than before, they still enjoyed the process and were able to finish their project. The Hammer allows them to learn about the concept of force and to do measurements with different parts, and so it was a good practice for them to learn such physical concepts. Next week we will be working on The Sweeper, which is a mechanical vehicle that lets them sweep the surface.
Mr. Amir
The kids have been on a great learning curve lately with all of our previous projects, and yesterday we decided work on a little more challenging design. They took their time to work on The Ramp. Even though the work was more challenging than before, they still enjoyed the process and were able to finish their project. The Ramp allows them to learn about the concepts of weight, force and also to do measurements with different parts. It was a great opportunity for them to learn such physical concepts. Next week we will be working on the Trundle Wheel, which is a mechanical device that lets them measure the length of the surface.
Mr. Amir
Each Friday, Play2Learn Education moves to Palliser Bayview PumpHill Community Association to serve for Kids in South Calgary. On September 15, 2017, the very first class in Phase I Lego Challenge Program is given at 6:30 pm in the evening. This is the first time we put our class in the south, big thanks for president, administrator in PBP Center. We had 12 kids in total gathering in boardroom to build car and run a race. The group is pretty mixed since we have boys and girls, age from 6 – 12 years old. This is what we planned for a big range of kids to be benefit from this program. Big brothers and sisters can enjoy a hard version of experiment, and also practice their leadership to interact with those young kids; for those young kids, they will really enjoy to learn and play in a easy model, however, interact with older brothers and sisters.
The car uses the battery and the motor to give the movement. To make the car run faster, you have different way to go. For example, change the gear combination; switch tires. Kids can think a lot of different ways to speed their car up.
That’s a wonderful Friday night! Kids felt happy; Mom and Dad enjoy an one hour Happy Hour.
Let’s get together in the next Friday! We will do some research on Scientific Measurement!
Amir
The first class in Phase III is open for students in ECA. This is the highest level of class in Play2Learn Education Lego Challenge Program. In the next 8 weeks, we will have chance to practice different ways to generate energy; to experience pneumatic; to design machine arm; to construct a mechanism hand.
We do use the monitor today to find out how strong your hand is. Your hand scroll the hand generator to generator energy. The energy is measured in Joules and you can find it in the monitor. We know how strong your hand is, since we can quantitatively see your hand scrolling generate 100 Joules energy! Super! The energy can be used to move a car! What a fabulous experiments!
Andy and Ethan finished the construction quickly. They dived into the experiment soon. They use the different speed to roll the hand generator and record the amount of Joules they generated.The car is moving by the energy, and also the car is moving forward and backward.
Phase III needs more theoretical knowledge in the experiments. That is really a good activity to help kids audit and find what they learned in the classroom.
In the next week, we are going to try a new model boat pulley!
Dr. JW
Let us suppose we have to set up a post office and delivery service at Edgemont Community Association. We have a plan to write letters and send them to all friends in neighborhood. To make everything as real as possible, we need to design some very spectacular stamps and weigh all the letters and finding out what stamps to put on.
How to make a Balance for the different range of weight? Kids are thinking/designing/building the balance they need. They also figure out the balance scale, how to use the unit to find out how many units we need to weigh letters up.
Tutor Paul
Hello Guys,
We were pleased to see 2 groups of kids working on their own Power Car project in Edgemont Community Association on Wednesday evening. The smart boys and girls finished all requested structure, and then made a fabulous CAR Race. Justin got the champion in the Group 2. He found the secret in gear combination. After trying 3 different combination, he chose the best one to make the car running far faster than other cars in the group.
Hi Justin, good job! The next step, I am sure you can find how the gear ratio is, to make the car run in a fast speed (quantitatively) as what you predicted. The timer is ready for you!
We are going to experience the scientific measurement Model in the next week. See you guys on September 20th, 2017.
Coach Paul
Play2Learn Education started Ambrose University Tuesday Hour of Kids Engineer Lego Challenge Program on September 12, 2017. Students are in the communities in Westside. The topic is the power car which aims to make kids understand how to change the car’s speed from changing gear ratio and changing tires’ size. Gerald and Claire are brother and sister, they all dive into finding different gear combinations to speed up their power car. No doubt, they got a champion in the car race. Please look at your homework to figure out what circumference is. In the next week, we will build a scientific balance to help us weigh object.
