Davis Creek Elementary
Fall 2000 LEGO Projects

This is a journal for the fourth fall 2000 LEGO Project of Davis Creek Elementary fifth grade.  The ROBOmath ideas from Tufts University can be applied to this Duplo clock.  The lurch behavior can be used for counting by twos, fives, and other increments.   The 5th grade student was trying to figure out what number of seconds to put into the lurch program.  What number of seconds per lurch will make the clock hand move two ticks per number on the clock?  A 5th grade and 1st grade student worked to solve this challenge and were able to demonstrate their success.  The 1st grade students took the clock to his classroom to demonstrate.  Students predicted what number of ticks there would be to get a specific number on the clock.
Davis Creek Elementary participates in a West Virginia Space Grant Consortium K12 Outreach Grant that affords them the expertise of Mrs. Linda Hamilton, mathematics instructor at Marshall University, and the use of LEGO educational materials.  Students build simple machines using LEGO sets that feature gears, pulleys, motors, levers, and wheels and axles.  Students will later participate in whole language activities that include building simple machines, writing up their accounts, and using LEGO CAD to make a lasting virtual model of their machine as well.  Robots are built utilizing light, sound, and motion sensors, also with microcomputers that are used by students in various schools around the world to teleoperate robots manipulating and analyzing data.  The Planetary Society sponsors the Mars Red Rover Program that is connected through NASA educational centers around the United States, and, indeed, throughout the world.  Students may drive the Mars Red Rover via the internet.
Mrs. Hamilton and multi-age learning
1st grade and 5th grade student working together

5th students writing down what we were learning about the programming. 
Recording thoughts
Showing the front of the clock
Watching the function of the program
The RCX can be used with younger Duplo materials
Showing the back of the clock
Putting the motor from the Robotics and the Duplo
Davis Creek Elementary
DC LEGO Site Map
Linda's LEGO Links

Created Fall 2000
Edited 4 / 7 / 2004
Linda Hamilton & Sharon Simon