squeakland April 2003

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Simply Seeking Syllabus for 5th-8th Grade Squeaking
by Origbj＠aol.com 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

My name is BJ Conn and I teach 4th and 5th grade at the Open Charter School. I have had 2 years experience using Squeak in my class of 62 kids. I would suggest that you work with the kids in pairs as it is great when they can problem solve together. I have some activities you might be interested in, but one in particular that involves creating a car and programing the car to drive itself along a road, leads to the kids creating their own race car and racing against each other. It is really motivating for the kids and could be great for your age group as well.

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Where are the rules for this list?
by csawtell＠xtra.co.nz 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Greetings, Is this the list for _absolute_ beginners at squeaking? I feel a total nitwit because I can't find any instructions which tell me how to load a text file containing a Squeak program into the image. Take it gently now, while I have been at these dumputers for 30 years I've never seen anything like, or as exciting as, Squeak. Help! Thanks a 10^6 -- Sincerely etc., NAME Christopher Sawtell CELL PHONE 021 257 4451 ICQ UIN 45863470 EMAIL csawtell @ xtra . co . nz CNOTES ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/C/tutorials/sawtell_C.tar.gz -->> Please refrain from using HTML or WORD attachments in e-mails to me <<--

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Simply Seeking Syllabus for 5th-8th Grade Squeaking
by Origbj＠aol.com 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Mark: In thinking about the concepts that I needed to present my children with, prior to teaching them a new idea or concept in Squeak, I think about my math standards. In the case of the car scenario, I used what they had learned about mean, mode, median and range, and how I could incorporate this concept into what I wanted them to create in Squeak. I needed them to understand the concept of random and random numbers and what a "variable" was. This is some pretty sofisticated stuff and Squeak gave the children a means to use some abstract concepts in a meaningful way.. I would be happy to send you the lessons that I used with the kids if you want. Of course they are only the Squeak lessons. The math concepts were simply part of my math curriculum. Best, B.J. Conn

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