Re: pinhole project ideas

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From: Andrew Coblentz (acsl@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 07:07:30 PDT 

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From: "Andrew Coblentz" <acsl@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: pinhole project ideas
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:07:30 -0700

Are you a science or math teacher? If you teach math, a great project that
I've done with my 6th grade elementary class is the stock market. If you
are interested, I can give you more details.

Andy Coblentz
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From: Gary Horne <gary.horne@excite.com>
To: <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: pinhole project ideas

> Hey all,
>
> I want to create a year-long math project for my sixth grade class.
> Ideally, this would be something that the kids would build at the end of
the
> year requiring an extensive amount of mathematics to plan. Perhaps
> something which is simple to build but can have many different variations.
> My hope is that, in addition to teaching the mathematics necessary for the
> project, the kids can test it using spreadsheets before construction.
>
> So far, I've thought of,
>
> A catapult/projectile where the kids make a launch pad and target,
>
> CO2 car
>
> Garden design (planting at different times to achieve correct look after x
> number of days)
>
> Solar oven
>
> But none of these are quite right. Any other ideas out there?
>
> g
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