High School Jupyter

[Carl Savage]

The running Jupyter Notebooks for my introduction to science data analysis at the high school level was met with great success.  The students found them informative and fun, I dare say they learnt a lot as well.  These Notebooks were for my Science Research Methods 12 class, which I would consider advanced computational methods class in which I have very motivated students.  I am now looking at moving the Notebooks in to my senior Physics class this school year and my junior level the year after (a more general audience). I am wondering if there is anyone out there that is currently running the Notebooks in a similar environment?  I am looking for some indication as to how the students adapted to the Notebooks and the scale at which they were used.

Thanks

Carl Savage

Ballenas Secondary School

[Brian Granger]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

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[Fernando Perez]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Brian Granger <elli...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Indeed, thanks! Are your materials publicly available anywhere? While our gallery (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks) is a bit weedy and overgrown, like all wikis, it's still a useful resource to list collections of useful materials...

Cheers

f 

[Carl Savage]

I have three of the Notebooks on the course's website that can be found here: http://srm12.weebly.com/current-handouts.html

I have looked through the wiki but didn't see anyone using the NB in High School.

[John]

For Physics you can try using the jupyter vpython to model physics problems in 3D in a notebook. See samples of physics problems in 3D in the notebook here.

http://mybinder.org/repo/BruceSherwood/vpython-jupyter

These are samples of college level physics material though using this textbook.

http://matterandinteractions.org/

also see 

http://vpython.org/

for how to install jupyter vpython. Vpython is used in physics courses at a number of colleges. See also this blog post.

http://physicslogos.blogspot.ca/2015/04/vpython-anaconda-and-ivisual.html

John

On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 1:34:16 PM UTC-7, Carl Savage wrote:

[Carl Savage]

Thanks for the links John some I have seen before others I have not.  I have vpython but have not used it with my students, I will need to explore the resource more.  

The more information I get on the use of Notebooks in education the more I know I am on the right track by introducing them to my students at the high school level. I do need to watch the level of the content very closely if I intro to much to quickly there is a danger of scaring some students off (the idea of learn the physics, the code and the Notebook at the same time can be overwhelming to some students).  The notebooks I have used thus far intro the idea of computational thinking while giving the basics of coding in Python they evolve to the point of the student writing their own Notebook to answer questions from worksheets and write a lab report that include graphs, tables, computational work and a narrative.  The progress is slow for some students but they all tell me it was worth doing, paired programming is a blessing.  I hope that the skills they pickup using the Notebooks at high school will help the students heading off to university. 

Thanks

Carl Savage

Ballenas Secondary School

On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 1:34:16 PM UTC-7, Carl Savage wrote:

[Fernando Perez]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Carl Savage <savagea...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have three of the Notebooks on the course's website that can be found here: http://srm12.weebly.com/current-handouts.html

I have looked through the wiki but didn't see anyone using the NB in High School.

The first link in this section:

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks#programming-and-computer-science

points to a blog post 

https://peak5390.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/how-ipython-notebook-and-github-have-changed-the-way-i-teach-python/

about their use in an Alaskan high school... It's the one I remember...

Please feel free to contribute new content to that wiki!

cheers

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