Comments on: Same Skills, Virtual Car: Constant Velocity Particle Model /blog_archive/2013/08/25/same-skills-virtual-car-constant-velocity-particle-model/ iteration, making, building, and coding in education Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:08:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.6 By: @MrLeNadj /blog_archive/2013/08/25/same-skills-virtual-car-constant-velocity-particle-model/#comment-248 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:08:22 +0000 http://evanweinberg.com/?p=1726#comment-248 Hi Evan:
1) I commend you on thinking quickly on your feet to solve the problems you had to face. I hope you shared this experience with your students so that they realize that life does not come ready for us in a golden platter; rather we must face its challenges with whatever multitude of skills and doggedness we have. Kudos!

2) For motion modeling, I use the students themselves to add kinesthetic fun to the whole experience. I split the students onto 4 groups with one group being the timers. The challenge of the three motion groups is to execute a relay (without watches of their own) in such a way that the end result will be a model of specs I give them ahead of time. That’s it, I do not give any further instructions beyond this. The results get entered, reviewed, compared, and the fun is indescribable. Low tech but still cool modeling with humans themselves “feeling” the motion and the Physix.

3) So, keep the human element as an option for it may work too.

Thank you and take great care! 🙂

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