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