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Problem Solving Through Science, Tuesday 3rd period
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
what_the_shockToday when the students got in, Miguel presented them all with toy cars. They were kind of cool looking, but they had no batteries.
"Here's your problem," he said without preamble. "Start your car here, get it to the other side of the room." The room was about half the size of a football field today. "I'm being nice, so there's no obstacles, so you don't have to worry about steering them. Just find the energy to move them and make it work. And in keeping with the theme of science, your method has to be replicable - meaning it has to work more than once, and if you gave someone else instructions on how you did it, it'd work for them, too."
His car had a spider on it. He was considering giving it legs as well as some sort of complex battery.
"You can use the room to generate whatever parts you need."
Enjoy!
"Here's your problem," he said without preamble. "Start your car here, get it to the other side of the room." The room was about half the size of a football field today. "I'm being nice, so there's no obstacles, so you don't have to worry about steering them. Just find the energy to move them and make it work. And in keeping with the theme of science, your method has to be replicable - meaning it has to work more than once, and if you gave someone else instructions on how you did it, it'd work for them, too."
His car had a spider on it. He was considering giving it legs as well as some sort of complex battery.
"You can use the room to generate whatever parts you need."
Enjoy!