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2. Divide into your groups • You may ask 3 questions • I will only answer the question being asked • Work together in your groups • EVERYONE participates • You will grade each other by participation • You cannot come up with a design until EVERYONE agrees to it • Come up with an idea • No modern appliances • Write some procedures • The other group will perform those procedures • We will be determining which groups procedures were most effective • We will celebrate success

3. Plant Station • Please perform the other teams’ procedures • When complete please allow Animal station to perform your procedures. • Plant Station: Please explain/show us your answer • Animal Station: Please explain/show us your answer

4. Finding the length of the room • But was that the question? • Did you use the thumb method, (Parallax)? • This lesson is called parallax, did you follow directions?

5. Distance from whiteboard to Earth • Using only the knowledge from shifting thumbs how can you determine the distance between the whiteboard to the Earth on the other side of the class room?

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7. Can we do it? Hold the arm with the finger stretched. You can see the object Measure the distance between your eyes with a ruler. Measure b with your angle-measuring tool. Make a drawing on scale and find from that the distance between your eyes and your finger. Control the answer by measuring this distance directly with a ruler or a tape measure. http://eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/Triangulation.html

8. d = 1/p

9. Place thumb directly in front of the globe right in the center at two different distances (d') from the cabinet. Measure and record the distance, d', for each thumb Center the first with one eye, measure how far the object is from the center line (this is your b' measurement for the eye). Then close your other eye and center the globe measure how far the globe is from the center line (this is your b' measurement for the second eye). Now move one meter to the right of the straight-on position. Again, center the globe and measure how far it is from the center line. Average your left and right measurements for each object to get b'. Use the ratio   s'/b' = s/b   to calculate the distance s to each object. http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Astro_p019.shtml#procedure

10. Subtract the angle formed by the thumb and the reference point from the angle formed by the object to get the first angle required to calculate the parallax angle. • Call it angle A. Suppose it is equal to 15 degrees • Move to the another location repeat procedure: record the angle to the object and the reference point and subtract one from another to find the difference. • Call it Angle B. Suppose it is equal to 14.5 degrees. • Subtract angle B from angle A to determine the parallax angle. • In the example, parallax angle equals 0.5 degrees. • Measure the distance between point A and point B using a measuring tape. Call it AB. • Suppose it equals 10 m. • Use the formula distance equals (AB * 360) / ( 2 * pi * parallax angle) to calculate the distance to the object. • In this example, (10 * 360) / (2 * 3.14 * 0.5) equals 287 meters. • http://www.ehow.com/how_8294304_calculate-parallax.html#ixzz30kp9W8tP

11. Navigating the bumpy road to Student Centered Instruction

12. 2nd Period Day One • Team Parallax quantum fysiks • Jonah (Leader) • Working more as a group • Bonding • No parallax • Questions for tomorrow • Tape hint • Door • Estimate • Anger increases ad I remind not modern appliances • Ready for procedures • Interview members • The Crazy Scientists • Isaac (Leader) • Breaking into subgroups • Two plans (one using parallax, one measuring) • Lots off task • Writing procedures and questions for tomorrow • Day one all lost questions within 15 min • Spent 10 Min. arguing about the questions rule • Spent ~10 deciding what questions to ask tomorrow

13. 2nd Period Day Two • Team Parallax quantum fysiks • Jonah (Leader) • Still working on Questions • Remind to work together • Trying to get an answer • Question used • Question used: Can we use the meter stick? • Separation of groups to measure cabinets • Lab station to wall “add measurement of hand” • Measuring to globe • Ask last question or use calculator choose long hand • One group member does not know what is going on, Ask Group why, Angry response as those listening state they don’t either but they are participating. • The Crazy Scientists • Isaac (Leader) • Start measuring with a ruler • Ask how that applies to thumbs (Shut ups) • Rearrange classroom (tables) “measure angles”, “Never said not to use table length” • Discuss team leadership no one know who it is. Reset and get on track, use time wisely • Use second Question • Write procedures

14. 3rd Period Day 1

15. 3rd Period Day 2 • Purple Sharks • Discuss One group Bringing new member up to date • Still not cohesive give them the rally cry. Team leader: “put hands on table so I know you are listening” • Q: can we read procedures? • Q: Can we literally read them? • Two interviews two procedures ask for more detail no nasty sandwiches • Q: can we stand on the table? • Re-write procedures • Working together one member asks about scale • Team Henry Foster 2k14 • Discussion • Question: Can we use a ruler? • Two plans Team Leader instructs to test both procedures out • One team member only knows one of the procedures remind all need to know • Measure globe with ruler • Try “secret thing” not all know what that is • Go on “field trip” some members still don’t know what’s going on • Interview with team leader to ensure she still has the power over the group • Field Trip to white board • Team leader: Do you have all the information you need? You can come back. • 10:08 • 10:11 • 10:11 • 10:14 • 10:16 • 10:17 • 10:19 • 10:29 • 10:30 • 10:25 • 10:34 • 10:27 • 10:33 • 10:35 • 10:38 • 10:36 • 10:37

16. 4rd Period Day 1 • Brain Forecasters • Two questions used • Alex presents an idea • Last Question used • Tessa gives a demo • Writing procedures • One member doesn’t understand procedures and Gavin helps him understand • Hint announced • Many wander to find hint • Josh & Friends • Writing names • Maria presents an idea • Used two questions • Look for a string remind to maintain cohesion • I was caught hiding under the table • Measure lab station. Nick explains an idea to two members • Measure Kian on lab station • Josh uses last question .

17. 4rd Period Day 2 • Brain Forecasters • Q asked • Three stray two only have permission. Temper’s flair • Q: Why are skittles under table? • Q: What is the exact location of the hint? • Gavin is flipping through the book (hint) • Angry and a student uses the “F” word, announced that even when frustrated not ok in class • Some members not sure who Team Leader is • Team Leader not sure who was sent out for clues • One of the searchers just sitting not doing anything • Team Leader reads procedures to group • Josh & Friends • Have a plan write procedures. • Decide on Questions • New Leader no idea team members are straying • All groups look for hint • Everyone walking around not productive • Three different groups • discussion

18. 5rd Period Day 1 • Kade & The Bae’s • Used two questions right away • Colvin uses last question five min later • Idea to sabotage • Redecorate the room by moving tables around • Arm to arm trick measuring the length of the room • Write procedures • The Lunar Lemurs • Used two questions right away • Remind team work • Try and idea • Create a ruler/scale on the white board and try thumb movement • Mid-room and back of room • Nick is disqualified • Explain how they have to work together no productivity

19. 5rd Period Day 2 • Kade & The Bae’s • Chaijastarts measuring • Colvin asks for pencil • Joe asks why there is a line • Not cohesive • Chija explains ideas to tem some don’t’ understand. Authority to kick members out of group • Remind team leader to control group • Colvin asks final question and is disqualified. • Pause for both disqualified members to appeal • Colvin and Derek both allowed in but with stipulations • Group shots • Group leader now Colvin • Proceed with writing procurers • Group leader informed to get control • The Lunar Lemurs • Team Leader goes over procedures • Derek uses two questions • Discussing if procedure are detailed enough • Begin finalizing procedures • Team me members begin wandering without permission from team leader. Inform of possible disqualifications • Derek asks to put water on head using the last question • Tell group leader to gain control • Derek disqualified • Pause for both disqualified members to appeal • Colvin and Derek both allowed in but with stipulations • Group shots • Jack is now Team leader • Asked to maintain control

20. 6rd Period Day 1 • Mt. Si • Right away first question used • Remind to stay as a group • Kayla has an idea • Brandon asks a question • Karis and Ashley and Brandon all have ideas • Still No cohesion • Last question used • No cohesion • Group 1 • Use two questions right away • Measure distance between Will’s eyes • Not everyone understands what’s going on or why • Last question used, no one notices • Cole W presents ideas with Will

21. 6rd Period Day 2 • Mt. Si • Bathroom question • Why do we have a mark? • Are you serious? • Possible disqualification of member? • Going over procedures • Both groups compete for white board space • Announce Hint • Abandon plan to look for hint, wander in team of two’s • Regroup and plan • Retest • Discussions • Group 1 • Need to get control over group • 3 Sub groups Team leader writing procedures (subgroups were assigned by team leader) • Both groups compete for white board • Hint • Team leader sends out 3 members to look for clues • Ask to use a calculator • Ask if can bring a tape measure • Ask if they are like “blues Clues” • Break apart to look for clues

22. Success? • So let’s take a look at each of the classes successful procedures

23. Failures • Is it ok to fail? • Did you learn anything by failing? • Why did it fail?

24. Amazing People Who Failed • Business: • Henry Ford: early business he failed and was broke 5 times before the Ford Company became a success • R.H. Macy: started 7 failed businesses before Macy’s • Bill Gates: Dropped out of Harvard, failed at his first business • (Autism?) • Walt Disney: fired by a newspaper due to “lack of imagination and had no good ideas”. He went bankrupt but kept trying • (Dyslexia) http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

25. Scientists: • Einstein: would not speak or read until he was 7, was thought to be mentally handicapped or slow and antisocial. Was expelled from school and refused entrance to Polytechnic School. Won the Nobel Prize and changed the face of modern physics • (Autism, Dyslexia, OCD, Asperger’s?) • Darwin: gave up on a medical career chastised for being lazy and too dreamy. He said about himself, “I was considered by all my masters, and my father, to be a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect” • (OCD, Speech differences/stutter) • Newton: did not do well in school, he had to run the family farm, failed miserably, so poor that his uncle took charge and sent him to school at Cambridge where he finally blossomed. • (Epilepsy, Speech differences/stutter, Asperger’s?) • Socrates: once sentenced to death because of his new ideas and was told he was “an immoral corrupter of youth” • (Epilepsy) http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

26. Amazing People Who Failed • Inventors: • Edison: Was told he was “too stupid to learn anything”, was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Made over 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb • (Dyslexia, Deaf, Asperger’s?) • Wright Brothers: battled depression and family illness before starting bicycle shop and began to experiment in flight. Had numerous failed attempts and tons of failed prototypes http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/06/22/guest-post-reinventing-the-wheel/wright-brothers-2/ http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

27. Amazing People Who Failed • Public Figures: • Churchill: Nobel-Prize wining and twice was elected as Prime-Minister to the UK, struggled in school and failed 6th grade. Many political failures. • (Mood Disorders, Dyslexia, OCD, Speech lisp) • Lincoln: went to war a captain but came back a private (lower rank), numerous failed business and was defeated many times as he ran for public offices • (Depression, Asperger’s?) • Oprah: had an abusive childhood and was fired from her job as a TV reporter because she was “unfit for TV” • Harry Truman: started a silk shirt and clothing business that went bankrupt only after a few years http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

28. Amazing People Who Failed • Hollywood: • Seinfeld: froze on stage and was booed and jeered off stage • Fred Astaire: Was told that he can act, sing, was slightly bald, and couldn’t dance. Became incredibly successful as an actor, singer, and dancer • Sidney Poitier: Was told to stop wasting peoples time and become a dishwasher, won an Oscar • Charlie Chaplin: rejected in Hollywood for being nonsensical • Lucille Ball: was a regarded to be a failed actress and a B movie star, drama instructors told her she’d never make it • Harrison Ford: “didn’t have what it takes to be a star” • (Mood Disorders, OCD) • Marilyn Monroe: was told to be a secretary by many modeling agents, rough upbringing, became a pin-up model and actress • (Asperger’s?) http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

29. Writers/Artists: • Van Gogh: during his lifetime only sold one painting to a friend for cheap • (Epilepsy, Asperger’s?) • Emily Dickinson: was ignored while alive having less than a dozen poems published out of her 1,800 written • Spielberg: rejected from USC of Theater, Film and TV three times, dropped out of another school, finished his degree 35 years after starting his degree • Steven King: Carrie was rejected 30 times, he threw it in the trash, his wife pulled it out of the trash and submitted it one more time • J.K. Rowling: was penniless, depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child while going to school and write Harry Potter, was on welfare just to survive • Monet: was mocked and rejected by artistic elite in Paris • (Vision impaired, blind still painted) http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

30. Musicians: • Mozart: began composing at 5 writing over 600 pieces that were laughed at and that are today some of the best created, was dismissed as a court musician in Salzburg • (Autism, Tourette's, Asperger’s?) • Elvis: after just one performance he was told that he wasn’t going anywhere and was told to go back to driving a truck • Beatles: record company told them “we don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out” • Beethoven: was extremely awkward on the violin because he was too busy composing and didn’t practice. Teachers told him he was hopeless and would never succeed with violin or composing. • (Mood disorder, OCD, Deaf/hearing impaired, Asthma, Asperger’s?) http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

31. Amazing People Who Failed • Sports: • Michael Jordan: was cut from his high school basketball team. “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game wining shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded” • Babe Ruth: 1,330 strikeouts “Every strike brings me closer to the next homerun” http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/ http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

32. “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”― Thomas Edison • “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”― Winston Churchill • “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill • “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”― Theodore Roosevelt • “Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.” ― Marilyn Monroe http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/failure?page=2

33. “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ― Samuel Beckett, WorstwardHo • “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy • “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ― Benjamin Franklin • “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ― H.G. Wells • “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth • “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ― Henry Ford http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/failure?page=2