Day 1

2013 Stanford Pilot for Action Research in East Palo Alto
Teaching in RYAA’s (Ravenswood Youth Athletics Association)
We are SMILE and Tinkering- indoor activity- week 2 from 2:30-5:00.
10  kids grades 2 to 6th
Day 1
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Our Teaching Assistants getting comfortable with SMILE
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Charlie, Mira, Malik, Sam, Ali, Eva – the team
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Andres learning how to make 5 star questions
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Jackie making 5 star questions so Sam can guess what is in the design box,
with Malik inputting Jackie’s questions into SMILE
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T A’s playing with SMILE on their phones
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Nathan guessing what is on the post it. Malik using teacher’s cards
our class watching Nathan guess
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Take 2 because the class told Nathan the answer
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Take 3. No one knows the answer except Malik
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breaking into Pairs to play the SMILE game
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Learning how to ask 5 star questions
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Guess what is in the design box?
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Zachariah asking better questions
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Carlos asking better questions
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Charlie in 5th grade and Giovanni in 2nd using student Rubric
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Sam explaining rubric
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Malik explaining student rubric
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Eva explaining rubric to Nathan
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Jackie inputting Angela’s questions
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Malik inputting Zachariah’s questions
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Nathan’s turn to use rubric
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Team on floor thinking of 5 star questions on what is inside
the radio
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Kids asking the TA’s questions because they have it now.
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Opening a radio to discover what is inside
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Nathan asked 5 star questions  about this clock radio
and is opening it
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Angela in 6th grade inputting her questions about the clock radio she is going to open.
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Talking about their invention
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Seeing what is inside
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Angela discovering what is in her clock radio.
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Tinkering
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Ali and Nathan on circuit board questions
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Opening a lynux operating system
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Inputting more of Angela’s questions.
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Opening an electronic dictionary
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Nathan inputting his own questions
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electronic dictionary circuit board.
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Inside a hairdryer, the screws were stripped so
we went outside and through it on the ground until it cracked open.
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discovering what is inside a hairdryer
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Redesigning parts into a new prototype
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These will be prototyping material for designing inventions for Day 2
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Jesus thinking about his redesign for tomorrow
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Collecting parts
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Robotic heart on left and Eva’s prototype for a free wireless phone on right.
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Charlie’s prototype in progress
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Zachariah so excited about his robot he is making on day 2
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answer: a design box
forward 1:58 minutes to see us Tinkering.