Other STEAM Activities

Share your object to the wall on Global Campus

Checklist

Step 1: Check

* Does your sketch show the inputs, i.e. the sensors that detect something e.g. temperature, humidity, a scan of an object, a keypress, voice recognition

* Does your sketch show its energy source e.g. a charger, solar panels

* Does your sketch show how the sensors connect to the Internet?

* Does your sketch show the outputs e.g. speakers, a screen, a motor or any other actuator

* Does your sketch use color pencils?

* Have you labelled all the parts?

* Have you annotated what your object does?

Show your sketch to brothers or sisters or to a parent at home.

Explain how your object works.

Get some feedback from them to improve it.

Step 2: Saving

Save your sketch a number of ways.

1) You could download it to Fichiers on your iPAD.

2) You could download it to the iCloud (the password is your 4 digit password)

3) You could upload it to OneDrive Fichiers.

4) You could resize your image, if it's too big)

Step 3: Uploading to Global Campus

Upload the picture of your sketch of a transformed every day object to your ePortfolio.

Add a title, a short description of your sketch, and the picture.

Pattern Recognition Challenge

Make a pattern from everyday objects. Make a symbol that calls on that pattern. Make symbols that call on different patterns!

Take a video of you making it.

Add your interesting pattern combinations to your ePortfolio.

Now write about your pattern.

• Describe how the object in each of its versions shares common traits.

• Describe how the object differs in each of its versions.

• What can we say generally about this object?

• Describe possible exceptions.