518288-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMP 

Clockwork objects, enhanced learning: Automata Toys Construction in primary education for Learning to Learn promotion, creativity fostering & Key Competences acquisition, with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

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1st Piloting - Clohe - Partner P2 Alivola - Step 1 - November 15, 2012 - Photo & Video

The comments ..C are from Clohe teachers

The comments ..T are from School teachers

 

 School Name:
Istituto Comprensivo di Passo Corese, Rieti, Italy
Classroom: 1st secondary		    
1 - Students age: 11-12 years (First middle school) - Boys: 14 / Girls: 5
Country of origin: 13 Italians, 6 Foreign School teachers: Laura Lapalorcia (Science), Stefania Cesare (Arts)
Clohe teachers: Luca De Pascalis (Automata artist), Guido Accascina (Director of the Modern Automata Museum)		 2 - This is the first mechanism to discover, transforming the circular motion of a wheel in the circular movement of another wheel, orthogonal to it.
 The pressure of the upper horizontal wheel produces enough friction to permit movement.		 3 - And this is an automata that uses the same mechanism. You may click on the image to see the movement of the bird and the mechanism. 
4C - Setting: two students per table, with the materials on the table. 5C - School teachers Laura Lapalorcia and Stefania Cesare give general information about the the course. 6C - Teacher ask students what they expect from the course.
4T.... Among the motivations of the students, to "build", "invent", manage their work appears predominant. 5T.... fixing the "goal" to be achieved by the proposed activity, the boys seem to take measures ... 6T.... Then dig into their own knowledge, in search of cognitive work tools.
7 - The children respond with their motivations. 8 - The teacher show an automata whose mechanism is hidden. 9 - First hypothesis, first drawings
7,8,9T.... Someone proceeds experimenting: trial and error.
10 - Experimenting with materials, the hypotheses are tested 11 - To test the mechanism we build the cardboard box that will serve as a basis for automata  12 - Need some help?
10T - .... The action of "scaffolding" from someone more experienced ... 11,12T - ... moments of co-construction and sharing of knowledge: the boys try to enable collaborative learning practices
13 - The mechanism is tested inside the box 14 - The mechanism works! Draw the characters and decoration. 15 - You can draw on a piece of soft rubber and then cut out the figures
16 - Mounting the figure above mechanism make the first test runs 17 - The automata are almost ready 18 - The automata are all on a large table
19 - Ready to share your work? 20 - We ask the students to tell their automata and their difficulties to realize it. 21 - A multicolored tree is rotating well.
19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29T... the externalization of mental processes that usually remain implicit, and the bringing to light the underground paths of reasoning so that they are visible to all and make them object of observation.
22 - A dancing lady with magnificent hair elastic 23 - Three fishes on a walk to the sea 24 - A lone white fish looks around
25 - Build a bunny seems easy! 26 - A bird with the initials of the two constructors. 27 - This helicopter has rotor blades and fuselage can turn too.
 
28 - A dancer turns slowly on herself. 29 - Three multicolored spirals fully functional. 30 - A video about this first step.