SLAMS_PreEngineering

Two 8th-graders spent all of their free time last week working on redesigning, cutting, and assembling this workbench for our classroom! It’s a great example of what happens when you teach kids how to use tools and empower them to solve problems with those skills #whyiloveslams

Students don’t just share to their class, but to any visitors that come into the building, and sometimes with the greater community. Check out some examples from last year that we turned into this display. #makerspace #maker #pbl #crosscurricular #preengineering #whyiloveslams

Students designed a second marker, either with minor changes or total redesigns, and most of those were carved as well. The final product will be a wall mural full of historic markers and QR codes linking to their summaries. At @SLAMiddle, Presentation is one of our core values.

This week I am grading @SLAMiddle 7th Gr Historic Markers that students designed with our @Inventables Carvey desktop CNC machines. This project took students about 2 and a half weeks to complete and ties in social studies & ELA (what we call humanities at SLAMS) w/ engineering.

Students from @SLAMiddle sharing their capstone projects at @educonphilly this morning. @Layout_ultimate

.@EduCon visit tomorrow morning and come by room 211. You’ll see student CNC designed historical markers, instructables documenting step-by-step instructions for 8th-grade builds this year, and an assortment of student projects in the hall, my room, and around the school #educon

@SLAMS_HPE What’s rhe score of each game?

🏀GAMEDAY DOUBLEHEADER vs. SLA Beeber 🏀 3:30pm BOYS 4:30pm GIRLS Location: SLAMS Gymnasium

@SLAMS_HPE @Inventables @FairmountWW @Pennoni @nironside13 Some other projects done recently include the pieces for the chess boards made out of resin and the base for an outdoor dog house for a student’s 110+ pound puppy

@SLAMS_HPE @Inventables @FairmountWW @Pennoni I found a wrought iron bench on a buy nothing group and a student rehabbed it to use to hold plants while another pair of students built a planter box for their advisor @nironside13 (same room as the bench) and a different student built a desk for his home makerspace

Inspired by @TimothyMBoyle, here’s some of our projects this year. This is only a part of what Ss have been doing in the “Meaningful Making” class @geekyteach and I offer to our 8th-graders @SLAMiddle. These projects are all from Pre-Engineering. 1st up- chess-Multiple iterations