Math and Technology miniMOOC: Museum resources for teaching Math and Technologies
Topic outline
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The origins of the Math and Technology MiniMOOC: Measure for Measure
Creators and leaders of this MiniMOOC: Giulia Cordone and Valeria Greco, PALERMOSCIENZA Association, Palermo, Italy
Giulia Cordone is math and physics teacher and she likes to create lessons that involve aspects of real life. Valeria Greco is a physicist and she likes to create activity involving different scientific disciplines.
Goals of the MiniMOOC: Measure for Measure
This MiniMOOC is a real-life activity and the focus of this activity is the knowledge of relation between us and buildings around us, and how we can understand their size using our body at first guess.
- soft skill: critical and innovative thinking, collaboration, communication
- hard skill: learning
to solve real-world problems through hands-on learning activities and creative
design. Using of
materials and tools to experiment, explore and collect data
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The goal in this part is to introduce the MiniMOOC to the participants with a general introduction to the course and a launching activity.
Scenario: We want to measure building sites and we don’t have a meter. How do we do it?The role of teacher is that of a “facilitator” (help with some tips without to give instructions to follow, like “can we use ourselves? Can we use something that has a relationship with length? What do you think about this?”)This part can be shared with art teacher, for example, if you choose a historical monument. In this way she/he can describe the monument from architectural and historical view.Adaptability for other contexts - choose a building that is situate in you city and has some historical value or is important due to some cultural events/historical perspective. It may be a building that can be openly accessible, but not visited by pupils everyday.Accessible for downland as example of activity- document for teachers in doc and in pdf
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Goal: to find the right unit of measure to use to measure building sites and its height.
What teacher should expect to happen: After chosen the unit of measurement, one of students set a walking rhythm and begin to walk along the sides of the building counting (after the student set rhythm, everyone continues on its own). At the end every student will have record steps numbers of each side.
Accessible for download:
- documents for teachers in doc and in pdf.
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- documents for teachers in doc and in pdf.
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Goals: to understand the importance of having a shared and unique unit of measure and why the rhythm of steps is the right choose
Students will analyse collected data and will have to explain them
Accessible for download:
- documents for teachers in doc and in pdf
- excel sheet (pdf format) with example of data
- template of excel sheet for data collection
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In this part:
- you will find some additional activities regarding calculation of Volume of building
- a virtual part with focus on knowledge of informatic tools, like Google Earth Pro to measure size and height of buildings.
Accessible for download:
- documents for teachers in doc and in pdf
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Goal: to measure students’ comprehension of the activity, their competence in excel sheet use and to check their knowledge of statistical quantities.
For the first goal, students have to describe activity in general, detailing all steps and what they built and how they did it.
Accessible for download:
- test for students self evaluation
- evalutation form
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In this part, teachers find:
- detailed description of Measure for Measure with indication of methodology, details about interdisciplinary skills.
- detail description of part 4-EXTEND on virtual activity with Google Earth
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