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SLAMS_PreEngineering @SLAMS_PreEng
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Two 8th-graders spent all of their free time last week working on redesigning, cutting, and assembling this workbench for our classroom! It’s a great example of what happens when you teach kids how to use tools and empower them to solve problems with those skills #whyiloveslams
Two students calculating new dimensions for lumber for our custom workbench.

ALT Two students calculating new dimensions for lumber for our custom workbench.

Two students drilling holes and fastening the bottom shelf to the workbench

ALT Two students drilling holes and fastening the bottom shelf to the workbench

The completed workbench

ALT The completed workbench
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This week I am grading @SLAMiddle 7th Gr Historic Markers that students designed with our @Inventables Carvey desktop CNC machines. This project took students about 2 and a half weeks to complete and ties in social studies & ELA (what we call humanities at SLAMS) w/ engineering.
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Students designed a second marker, either with minor changes or total redesigns, and most of those were carved as well. The final product will be a wall mural full of historic markers and QR codes linking to their summaries. At @SLAMiddle, Presentation is one of our core values.
An assortment of student-designed historic markers

ALT An assortment of student-designed historic markers

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Students don’t just share to their class, but to any visitors that come into the building, and sometimes with the greater community. Check out some examples from last year that we turned into this display. #makerspace #maker #pbl #crosscurricular #preengineering #whyiloveslams
A collection of student-designed historic markers including topics of Tastykake, University City HS, the Broad Street Run, Philly Pretzel Factory, Philly Juneteenth celebration, 1876 World’s Fair, Rocky 50k Fat Ass Run, Mummer’s Parade, the founding of SLA Middle School, a prison break from Eastern State Pen, and the first Constitutional Convention

ALT A collection of student-designed historic markers including topics of Tastykake, University City HS, the Broad Street Run, Philly Pretzel Factory, Philly Juneteenth celebration, 1876 World’s Fair, Rocky 50k Fat Ass Run, Mummer’s Parade, the founding of SLA Middle School, a prison break from Eastern State Pen, and the first Constitutional Convention
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Meredith Martin@geekyteach
4 Feb 2024
Students from @SLAMiddle sharing their capstone projects at @educonphilly this morning. @Layout_ultimate
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.@EduCon visit tomorrow morning and come by room 211. You’ll see student CNC designed historical markers, instructables documenting step-by-step instructions for 8th-grade builds this year, and an assortment of student projects in the hall, my room, and around the school #educon
Michael Franklin@Layout_ultimate
2 Feb 2024
If you're in town this weekend for @educonphilly, Stop by @SLAMiddle tomorrow (Fri) morning to see the cool things our students do. @geekyteach and I will be presenting during session 4 (Sun morning) with a bunch of our 8th-graders to talk about their experience picking their
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Inspired by @TimothyMBoyle, here’s some of our projects this year. This is only a part of what Ss have been doing in the “Meaningful Making” class @geekyteach and I offer to our 8th-graders @SLAMiddle. These projects are all from Pre-Engineering. 1st up- chess-Multiple iterations
Student-made chess board 20”x20” from above

ALT Student-made chess board 20”x20” from above

Student-made chess board 20”x20” at a jaunty angle

ALT Student-made chess board 20”x20” at a jaunty angle

First iteration of the chess board as a proof of concept for the larger project. Made from cheap pine.

ALT First iteration of the chess board as a proof of concept for the larger project. Made from cheap pine.

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I found a wrought iron bench on a buy nothing group and a student rehabbed it to use to hold plants while another pair of students built a planter box for their advisor @nironside13 (same room as the bench) and a different student built a desk for his home makerspace
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Some other projects done recently include the pieces for the chess boards made out of resin and the base for an outdoor dog house for a student’s 110 pound puppy
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