[11772] in APO News
Play with LEGOs, for Science!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kristin Kuhn)
Tue Mar 24 12:52:43 2009
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:52:26 -0600
From: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news@mit.edu
If you're free next Tuesday evening, this fun service project could be for =
you!
Contact pcog@mit.edu if you plan on going.
More details below!
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Alex Vandiver <alexmv@mit.edu> wrote:
> Short form:
> =A0* Help assemble LEGO sets, to be used by Gloucester middle schools to
> =A0 teach genetics
> =A0* Tuesday, March 31, 2009
> =A0* 6pm - 9pm, with Bertucci's around 7:00 -- come for whichever parts
> =A0 you can!
> =A0* The Edgerton Center classroom, 4-402
> =A0* RSVP to Paula Cogliano <pcog@mit.edu>
>
> Long form:
> =A0The MIT Edgerton Center outreach program has been working with the
> Gloucester Public Schools in a pilot project in science and technology
> education. =A0Gloucester is an economically depressed town, particularly
> because of the recent collapse of the fishing industry. =A0The schools
> have been very hard hit and the situation is compounded with the
> recent economic downturn.
>
> =A0The Edgerton Center has been exporting its quality middle school
> science and technology programs to the schools. =A0Included last year
> was a series of lessons in genetics which are modeled using LEGO
> Chromosomes. =A0The result is that now, all of the eighth grade science
> teachers would like to adapt this curriculum!
>
> =A0With some grant money, the Edgerton Center has purchased the LEGO
> bricks needed to teach the curriculum. =A0However, the parts need to be
> sorted and collated into about 50 students sets, from bags and bags of
> different Lego bricks. =A0The task is to repackage and reassemble the
> materials so that the teachers will be presented with useable teaching
> materials. =A0The teachers have plans to teach using these LEGO
> Chromosome sets in April and May.
>
> =A0Dinner (in the form of pizza, salad, and soda) will be provided as a
> reward for your hard work. Please RSVP with Paula Cogliano
> pcog@mit.edu and let her know if you have any dietary restrictions, no
> later than 4pm Friday March 27.
>
> =A0- Alex
>
> --
> Networking -- only one letter away from not working
>
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