Same question as other groups:
#2. What might build interest/engagement in science learning during non-school hours (summertime, weekends)?
How to enthuse and interest people and kids in science...
Nerdy science teacher - getting updates from Nasa, etc. not making the teacher do it; every week getting science stuff that is cool; something that delivers it to the student - something where they want more.
- NASA probably tweets - headlining their ideas
- VS scientists can provide lists
- A reminder that the students do not email. They could use cellphones - tweets, etc
Use of Facebook
- older more mature students do not Facebook anymore
- VS data shows that students use social networking several times a day
Group A - add idea of the popularity of the school newspaper and kids bring retro and using typewriters. We need not always think that they need to use the most modern technology.
The idea of being mentors for students - suggesting students do this or that. Can that be replicated using technology? Does it really need the human person behind it? Human Interaction.
- Group A - mention what a difference it makes when kids like a class and the teacher, then they end up getting interested in the subject.
- Group C - online learning is great but it does not make suggestions of what else you might be interested in if you like that. For kids and their interests, an adult can share and pass their passion on.
Parent involvement:
- Group A talk about Catherine and Joe and how their parents are very involved. But Joe's parents may not have the resources; parents went and sought out info they needed for him.
Passing on resources and ideas for VS between teachers
- Group A - VS teachers and conduits - scientific drawing and all the connections for VS.
- Group A - At school where one teacher is doing VS - they can transfer the information to the other teacher. It takes a lot of resources to make it happen.
Technology
- what part can happen online? vs. with a real person.
- Nighttime observations at curfew
- Can you start a fire without a match?
- Weekly science email from cool sites - NASA Satellite, Image 1, WHO I, one species at a time.
- GMRI lectures
- White Pine Organization
- Variety of Citizen Scientist websites
- Volunteer opportunities
- Online mentors
- Rain garage
- Nature photo contest
- Recommend reading
- Scat
- Music in nature: GarageBand and Mash Ups
- Can you make your own perfume?
- Science photo a day
- How many different birds can you hear?
- Make mud pies - what's in it?
- Project science
- Find your relatives home on Google Earth
- Freeze Hail
- How far did the tide move?
- Find a leach
- Make a potato gun?
- Look at road kills
- Kayaking (nature's level)
- Monday nature photos
- Make wine?
- How cold is the pond this year?
- Thunderstorms
- Bee stings vs. wasp stings
- Make a fairy house
- Scientific summer
- Make snow
- Make a home for a nome
- Edible plants wild
- Science apps for phones
- Plant a garden
- Rocks: How many different types?
- Mentor younger kids
- Learn morse code
- What is the quickest pattern to use to mow the lawn?
- Trap a spider and watch it
- Communicating
- Create and outdoor treasure hunt
- Tidal waves online
- Create an outdoor treasure hunt
- Crickets
- Fishing
- Bird migration: document with camera
- Magnify glass on an ant
- Photograph dragonflies
- Science cartoons and jokes
- Dance to your favorite song in a mowed field
- Lightening bugs
- Reality science, STEM reality
- Grossology: look closer
- Crab races on the beach
- Freedom to participate in sports
- Freaky story
- What is that bad smell?
- Science lectures
- Preteach: Find this
- Stop mosquitos from getting in your room
- Wrap a piece of long hair around a fly and see what happens
- Amusement park
- Which flower in your garden has the most petals?
- How many different tracks are in the newly fallen snow?
- Make a go-cart
- Cicada sounds
- Rain gauge
- Favorite books you really like for students to keep
Same question as other groups:
#2. What might build interest/engagement in science learning during non-school hours (summertime, weekends)?
#1. made connection
Started by brainstorming what are they interested in.
food
Kardashians
etc.
Second part of their brainstorming was to think about:
What might build on these interests?
- Challenge night
- Time distance experience
- School cabaret
- Self-initiated science projects
- Project runway
- Carrie does Fab Friday with her science classes: Students can do whatever you want that is sceince related. It is graded at the end of one trimester. Whatever they choose they end up getting a rubric related to that - experiments, inventions, survery, wall murals, physics on their sport. They present to the rest of the class using media, etc. Only 5 kids did reports. The students tell a problem, sharing inventions, share interviews, etc. For example, one student interviewed his father doing climate change. Another spoke about how you juggle fire. They are given a list of topics to choose from or they can pick whatever they want. They can do it every Friday.
- All of these ideas are student directed - because we are looking at their interest.
Possible Interests
- Peers
- Technology, computers
- Politics
- Whatever family does
- Retro
- Music
- Self, self, self
- Grades
- Outliers
- Social media
- Pop-culture
- Fishing
- Food
- Older kids
- Reality, pop-culture
- Fashion
- Top performers
- Green
- Newest things
- Reality TV
- Art
- Traveling
- Sports
- Socializing
- Going places
- Cars
- Being different, on fringe
- Hanging, watching others
- Social connections with teachers
- Snow sports
What might build on these interests?
- Challenge night
- self-selected science projects
- Time distance experiments
- School cabaret for science
- Create tech or programs
- Fair
- Develop apps
- *Fab Friday
- Play
- Keep tools out
- Explore Kardashians
- Project runway
- Celebrity judges
- 5 minute dress
- invent, make fabrics
- Cost analysis: gas to snowmobiling
How do you engage kids after school? How do you engage kids in the summer?
Post its are clumped with circle stickers.
Thinking about middle school and early high school. They are way to cool for family and have their own activities, yet they still spend time with family.
Family related activities
Non family related activities: camps, clubs
- Hunger Games - plants in Maine - archery lesson
- Books - 50 books; discussion about book theme
Think about one hit wonders - definitive beginning and end
Design questions
a variety
Media
- Making media for YouTube viewing media
- Science previews
- Short films for movie theater
- Star Trek movies: What's science and what's not
Career
Sports,
Volunteering
Writing
- about science fiction
- writing letters to the paper
Online things
Design principles
- Make the investigation real, important and long term
Family
- Family nature groups
- Community involvement: Students present work & findings
- Engage parents and families
- Family math night
- Family science night
Summer and after school
- adopt a scientist: Groups gets a scientist to facilitate an investigation of their choice
- community gardens
Writing
- Community challenges: Provide opportunities to solve real problems
- Encourage writing to papers (Editorials)
- Blogs on science topics
- Science fiction writing: workshop, camp, contest with scientists and as resources to consult on what's possible
- Read science fiction for fun. Informal book groups. Library blogs. Family night.
Online
- Online gaming challenge: Virtual reality (a la Peak Oil)
- Social networking and science
- Communication with students who submit outside of class & comments
- Provide opportunity: time to set up personal accounts
Camp/Clubs
- Offer programs for kids that parents can't participate in (maybe more appealing to order kids?)
- Science club where kids pick the activities from choices
- Technology club - 4 laptops
- Photography club
- Science outside the box (art & science together, other programs that showcase lesser known aspects of science)
- Provide the opportunities for extended work "club"
- Science adventure camps
- Connect kids to program like: 4H, Audobon Society, UMaine (consider Engineering competitions, Robotics)
- Sports: add science component to sports camp: nutrition, trainer training, physics of acceleration
- Create interesting organized experiences that can go places
Competition
- Science Fair
- Invention Convention
- Variety to engage existing interests
- Prizes, competition, social opportunities
Design Principles
- Food at gatherings
- Make the investigation real and important and long term
Media
- Science of Hunger Games
- Tweet cool science facts
- Facebook: Anatomy in motion
- Science "preview" at movies or science shorts before movies
- Create movies about science in our community and have them aired on local TV stations
- Science with celebrities! Cheerleaders who are in grad school. Rockstars who are also physicists
- Tour a facility that does digital publishing or movie editing
- YouTube: contest? Winner used in an ad? Challenge topics. Can you make __________? Document your process.
Careers
- Volunteer programs: Cleaning out invasive species in lakes at Rachel Carson Ctr, etc.
- Science in farming, aquaculture, forestry, fishing
- Roadtrip science (Nation) to interview and document science related careers
- Chamber of commerce gets involved to feature industry
Comments
Student Brainstorming - Group B
Same question as other groups:
#2. What might build interest/engagement in science learning during non-school hours (summertime, weekends)?
How to enthuse and interest people and kids in science...
Nerdy science teacher - getting updates from Nasa, etc. not making the teacher do it; every week getting science stuff that is cool; something that delivers it to the student - something where they want more.
- NASA probably tweets - headlining their ideas
- VS scientists can provide lists
- A reminder that the students do not email. They could use cellphones - tweets, etc
Use of Facebook
- older more mature students do not Facebook anymore
- VS data shows that students use social networking several times a day
Group A - add idea of the popularity of the school newspaper and kids bring retro and using typewriters. We need not always think that they need to use the most modern technology.
The idea of being mentors for students - suggesting students do this or that. Can that be replicated using technology? Does it really need the human person behind it? Human Interaction.
- Group A - mention what a difference it makes when kids like a class and the teacher, then they end up getting interested in the subject.
- Group C - online learning is great but it does not make suggestions of what else you might be interested in if you like that. For kids and their interests, an adult can share and pass their passion on.
Parent involvement:
- Group A talk about Catherine and Joe and how their parents are very involved. But Joe's parents may not have the resources; parents went and sought out info they needed for him.
Passing on resources and ideas for VS between teachers
- Group A - VS teachers and conduits - scientific drawing and all the connections for VS.
- Group A - At school where one teacher is doing VS - they can transfer the information to the other teacher. It takes a lot of resources to make it happen.
Technology
- what part can happen online? vs. with a real person.
Post-It Ideas - Group B
- Nighttime observations at curfew
- Can you start a fire without a match?
- Weekly science email from cool sites - NASA Satellite, Image 1, WHO I, one species at a time.
- GMRI lectures
- White Pine Organization
- Variety of Citizen Scientist websites
- Volunteer opportunities
- Online mentors
- Rain garage
- Nature photo contest
- Recommend reading
- Scat
- Music in nature: GarageBand and Mash Ups
- Can you make your own perfume?
- Science photo a day
- How many different birds can you hear?
- Make mud pies - what's in it?
- Project science
- Find your relatives home on Google Earth
- Freeze Hail
- How far did the tide move?
- Find a leach
- Make a potato gun?
- Look at road kills
- Kayaking (nature's level)
- Monday nature photos
- Make wine?
- How cold is the pond this year?
- Thunderstorms
- Bee stings vs. wasp stings
- Make a fairy house
- Scientific summer
- Make snow
- Make a home for a nome
- Edible plants wild
- Science apps for phones
- Plant a garden
- Rocks: How many different types?
- Mentor younger kids
- Learn morse code
- What is the quickest pattern to use to mow the lawn?
- Trap a spider and watch it
- Communicating
- Create and outdoor treasure hunt
- Tidal waves online
- Create an outdoor treasure hunt
- Crickets
- Fishing
- Bird migration: document with camera
- Magnify glass on an ant
- Photograph dragonflies
- Science cartoons and jokes
- Dance to your favorite song in a mowed field
- Lightening bugs
- Reality science, STEM reality
- Grossology: look closer
- Crab races on the beach
- Freedom to participate in sports
- Freaky story
- What is that bad smell?
- Science lectures
- Preteach: Find this
- Stop mosquitos from getting in your room
- Wrap a piece of long hair around a fly and see what happens
- Amusement park
- Which flower in your garden has the most petals?
- How many different tracks are in the newly fallen snow?
- Make a go-cart
- Cicada sounds
- Rain gauge
- Favorite books you really like for students to keep
Student Brainstorming - Group A
Same question as other groups:
#2. What might build interest/engagement in science learning during non-school hours (summertime, weekends)?
#1. made connection
Started by brainstorming what are they interested in.
food
Kardashians
etc.
Second part of their brainstorming was to think about:
What might build on these interests?
- Challenge night
- Time distance experience
- School cabaret
- Self-initiated science projects
- Project runway
- Carrie does Fab Friday with her science classes: Students can do whatever you want that is sceince related. It is graded at the end of one trimester. Whatever they choose they end up getting a rubric related to that - experiments, inventions, survery, wall murals, physics on their sport. They present to the rest of the class using media, etc. Only 5 kids did reports. The students tell a problem, sharing inventions, share interviews, etc. For example, one student interviewed his father doing climate change. Another spoke about how you juggle fire. They are given a list of topics to choose from or they can pick whatever they want. They can do it every Friday.
- All of these ideas are student directed - because we are looking at their interest.
Post-It Ideas - Group A
Possible Interests
- Peers
- Technology, computers
- Politics
- Whatever family does
- Retro
- Music
- Self, self, self
- Grades
- Outliers
- Social media
- Pop-culture
- Fishing
- Food
- Older kids
- Reality, pop-culture
- Fashion
- Top performers
- Green
- Newest things
- Reality TV
- Art
- Traveling
- Sports
- Socializing
- Going places
- Cars
- Being different, on fringe
- Hanging, watching others
- Social connections with teachers
- Snow sports
What might build on these interests?
- Challenge night
- self-selected science projects
- Time distance experiments
- School cabaret for science
- Create tech or programs
- Fair
- Develop apps
- *Fab Friday
- Play
- Keep tools out
- Explore Kardashians
- Project runway
- Celebrity judges
- 5 minute dress
- invent, make fabrics
- Cost analysis: gas to snowmobiling
Student Brainstorming - Group C
How do you engage kids after school? How do you engage kids in the summer?
Post its are clumped with circle stickers.
Thinking about middle school and early high school. They are way to cool for family and have their own activities, yet they still spend time with family.
Family related activities
Non family related activities: camps, clubs
- Hunger Games - plants in Maine - archery lesson
- Books - 50 books; discussion about book theme
Think about one hit wonders - definitive beginning and end
Design questions
a variety
Media
- Making media for YouTube viewing media
- Science previews
- Short films for movie theater
- Star Trek movies: What's science and what's not
Career
Sports,
Volunteering
Writing
- about science fiction
- writing letters to the paper
Online things
Design principles
- Make the investigation real, important and long term
Post-It Ideas - Group C
Family
- Family nature groups
- Community involvement: Students present work & findings
- Engage parents and families
- Family math night
- Family science night
Summer and after school
- adopt a scientist: Groups gets a scientist to facilitate an investigation of their choice
- community gardens
Writing
- Community challenges: Provide opportunities to solve real problems
- Encourage writing to papers (Editorials)
- Blogs on science topics
- Science fiction writing: workshop, camp, contest with scientists and as resources to consult on what's possible
- Read science fiction for fun. Informal book groups. Library blogs. Family night.
Online
- Online gaming challenge: Virtual reality (a la Peak Oil)
- Social networking and science
- Communication with students who submit outside of class & comments
- Provide opportunity: time to set up personal accounts
Camp/Clubs
- Offer programs for kids that parents can't participate in (maybe more appealing to order kids?)
- Science club where kids pick the activities from choices
- Technology club - 4 laptops
- Photography club
- Science outside the box (art & science together, other programs that showcase lesser known aspects of science)
- Provide the opportunities for extended work "club"
- Science adventure camps
- Connect kids to program like: 4H, Audobon Society, UMaine (consider Engineering competitions, Robotics)
- Sports: add science component to sports camp: nutrition, trainer training, physics of acceleration
- Create interesting organized experiences that can go places
Competition
- Science Fair
- Invention Convention
- Variety to engage existing interests
- Prizes, competition, social opportunities
Design Principles
- Food at gatherings
- Make the investigation real and important and long term
Media
- Science of Hunger Games
- Tweet cool science facts
- Facebook: Anatomy in motion
- Science "preview" at movies or science shorts before movies
- Create movies about science in our community and have them aired on local TV stations
- Science with celebrities! Cheerleaders who are in grad school. Rockstars who are also physicists
- Tour a facility that does digital publishing or movie editing
- YouTube: contest? Winner used in an ad? Challenge topics. Can you make __________? Document your process.
Careers
- Volunteer programs: Cleaning out invasive species in lakes at Rachel Carson Ctr, etc.
- Science in farming, aquaculture, forestry, fishing
- Roadtrip science (Nation) to interview and document science related careers
- Chamber of commerce gets involved to feature industry