{"id":1614,"date":"2020-12-28T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2020-12-28T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:14:26","slug":"middle-and-high-school-students-enjoy-challenging-and-relevant-covid-tech-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Middle and High School Students Enjoy Challenging and Relevant COVID Tech Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Middle and high school students at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pvrs.pvrsdk12.org\/\">Pioneer Valley Regional School<\/a>&nbsp; recently completed COVID related Computer Science (CS) and engineering projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses centered on Computer Science Discoveries (CSD) from http:\/\/code.org\/.&nbsp;&nbsp;I also had to create new robotics engineering projects for high school engineering students, many of whom I had last year and who had already completed some good robotics projects.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want students to be empowered to create solutions to pressing real-world problems.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That is our end goal ultimately, so why not start now?&nbsp;&nbsp;So, I created two new projects that focused on COVID.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another challenge as that projects needed to be able to be done all remotely or with a mix or remote and in-class students.&nbsp;&nbsp;Note that I was able send LEGO Education EV3 robot kits home if I needed to and the CSD curriculum is web-based and available from home or school.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middle school students learned the basics of computers and computer programing studying the key concepts of problem scoping, input, output, processing, and storage from CSD.&nbsp;&nbsp;The standard CSD curriculum has a design your own app project at the end of the unit that I modified to focus on solving a COVID related problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was impressed by how each student designed an app that strongly reflected their own concerns and interests.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apps designs were documented in a series of Google slides, which included drawings of the main screens.\u00a0\u00a0The slides were presented by each student to students remotely and in class concurrently in a Google meet.\u00a0\u00a0Here are some example slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Examplnput.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Examplnput.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Examplnput.jpg 886w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Examplnput-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Examplnput-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure\u00a01\u00a0&#8211; Inputs to Custom Mask App<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Example-Outout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Example-Outout.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Example-Outout.jpg 885w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Example-Outout-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Example-Outout-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure\u00a02\u00a0&#8211; Outputs of Activity Chooser App<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a complete presentation from Rachel. Her app educates people about COVID and how to stay safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rachel\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/479930917?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She remarked that the project forced her to consider the perspectives of a wide variety of people, including people who were not aware of or in denial of the risks of COVID.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s really fun. You get to be creative and think of things differently.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like look at different perspectives, like looking into the perspective of people not completely understanding how they should be handling Corona Virus.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High school students were challenged to design and prototype a wearable or stand-alone robot that helped with social distancing. They went through a research, planning, building, test, redesign, and share out engineering process using the LEGO Education EV3 robot kit.\u00a0\u00a0They presented Google slides to the other students, whether in-class or remote.\u00a0\u00a0The two excerpted slides below are from a student whose family choose remote schooling all year, for example.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution-1536x834.png 1536w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Solution.png 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure\u00a03\u00a0&#8211; Slide of final robot solution, which includes a video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1618\" width=\"670\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection-1536x834.png 1536w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JA-Reflection.png 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure\u00a04\u00a0&#8211; students reflected on their own engineering design process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This student, like many students during remote learning, commented on the challenges of organizing time and materials on their own at home.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is an important skill that was forced to the forefront. I reflected on my own process that students and teachers depend on the frequent teacher student feedback loop that goes on during in-class learning.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a complete presentation from Max, who challenged himself to use three motors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That rotating turret component I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s even necessary but I decided to challenge myself and it worked out great.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"High School COVID Robot Max\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/486756268?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected middle and high school students (n=11) gave permission to be interviewed.\u00a0\u00a0I asked them a few questions to try better understand their experience doing the COVID projects.\u00a0\u00a0Many common themes emerged, some expected and some not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I expected, hands-on (n=5) projects were perceived as fun by students (n=13 instances).&nbsp;&nbsp;I did not expect this to be tied in with being challenging (n=5) and open-ended, the latter often expressed as not having any limits (n=5).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I think it was really fun. It wasn\u2019t the easiest thing to do but it was fun to think and be open to a bunch of things and possibilities because there weren\u2019t any limitations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I liked it. It was pretty interesting. You had to think.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creativity was often mentioned (n=6), frequently as a reason for the projects being fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Unlike most of the school projects I found it pretty interesting and fun. For once, we actually got to use our creativity without too many like constraints to be able to do a school project. Yeah, I enjoyed it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was not expecting this but student responses revealed how they were feeling about COVID and may have helped students process their feelings about being in a pandemic.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some viewed the project as being relevant (n=2) and solving a real need (n=9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It just really made me think of a social distancing and how important it is to social distance. Other than that, like this robot isn\u2019t a solution or isn\u2019t a cure for the actual virus and it can just ease the situation at hand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I think was pretty fun specially because it\u2019s a very unique project especially since ran such like a unique time right now and I like how the project was sort of catered to what\u2019s happening in the real world right now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least one student also made the explicit connection with the importance of engineering in solving COVID and other pressing issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yeah, I think it did I think it has taught me that engineering is pertinent in every aspect of life \u2013 especially COVID \u2013 because you need engineers to\u2026 Say you\u2019re doing research: you\u2019re trying to find a vaccine, you\u2019re trying to figure out what will prevent it from spreading, and you need to use engineering to find solutions to those problems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some students combined the many themes together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It was very interesting because I didn\u2019t have like a certain design that I had to create and it\u2019s like I could virtually make anything like that\u2019s where my creative side comes in and I can take whatever is inside the kit that was given to us and create a robot and is very cool because I am a hands-on person. So, I like working on what is directly what\u2019s in front of me instead of like working on a computer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, the COVID projects both met the curriculum goals but in a fun, challenging, and relevant way for students.\u00a0\u00a0While I expected that students would perceive the work as fun and creative, I was pleasantly surprised that students found the open-ended aspect of the projects challenging in a good way.\u00a0\u00a0The projects as revealed students\u2019 feelings about COVID and seemed to help them process those feelings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle and high school students at the&nbsp;Pioneer Valley Regional School&nbsp; recently completed COVID related Computer Science (CS) and engineering projects.&nbsp; I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=1614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,3,5,6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-2","category-research","category-robotics","category-teaching","category-technology","category-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Middle and High School Students Enjoy Challenging and Relevant COVID Tech Projects - Kids Engineer!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=1614\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Middle and High School Students Enjoy Challenging and Relevant COVID Tech Projects - Kids Engineer!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Middle and high school students at the&nbsp;Pioneer Valley Regional School&nbsp; 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