homeschool

最近華視新聞做了一個Ella的自學報導，http://news.cts.com.tw/cts/general/201607/201607151774734.html#.V4oI2ct-XqA，講得是自學生如何運用時間來做學習，有興趣的可以看看。

在這星期的科學課，大孩子們探索了物理學的滑輪、施力、省力實驗 (Introduction to Physics Force & Pulley with Experiments)。大家嘗試著做出最升力的方法來拉重力，好玩又有趣!

Higher grade kids have studied Physics Proce and Pulley system this week.  They experiemented with coming up with a pulling system that uses least amount of force but can pull the maximum weight.

In this week's coding class, Owen and Jas worked hard trying to debug their spinner robot. It worked great _sometimes_! But they kept running into alignment issues.

In coding class today, the kids continued to build the massive Spinner Factory robot. But today I introduced them to a simple Kanban board to keep track of what was built. The instructions include 465 steps.

這次實驗課，我們做了很多乾冰的實驗，好好玩喔!

在洗手台裡放乾冰，好像恐怖片裡的場景喔!

Over the weekend Mr. John saw a video from a young woman who studies robotics. Her advice on how to learn robotics was to tear things apart and then put them back together.

In coding class we finished the code for the ellaphants we built. The kids made a program that would use the robot keypad buttons to control what it did. Up button to make the elephant walk forward. Down button for backward. Left button for head tilt and trunk trumpeting. And right button for picking up an object.

20160524 Science Class:  Introduction to Apple/Carrot Peeling Machine Design Science with DIY Science Projects

Kids looked at how an automatic peeler works.  They tried to make a model of a peeling machine.  Most kids found that the motors they have used are not strong enough to support spinning the apply or the carrot.  But there was a cute video of Nile's working!