Life Sciences Projects for Makerspaces?
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Jaymes Dec
Nov 20, 2014, 7:00:34 PM11/20/14
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Hi everyone!
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I'm organizing a hackathon this Saturday in part to answer these questions:
How does STEAM play out in the Life Sciences classroom?
What role can digital design and fabrication tools have in the Life Sciences Classroom?
How can physical computing tools and creative coding contribute to the Life Sciences classroom?
We are gathering about 30 teachers and 40 experts in life sciences and digital tech to prototype projects for a day.
I'd love to "prime the pump" in the morning by giving examples of great projects.
What are your favorite examples of Life Sciences maker projects?
Please share! Thank you!
Jaymes Dec
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Clint Johns
Nov 20, 2014, 7:17:51 PM11/20/14
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Hey James,
This was for biology (not quite life sciences). We used a LEGO NXT mindstorms brick with a tetrix servo controller and a 60 degree servo to build an agitator for a bunch of test tubes in a bio reaction lab - the platform needed to rock every few seconds for a full 24 hours.
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David Held
Nov 20, 2014, 8:20:20 PM11/20/14
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Jaymes - Sounds like a very cool gathering. Let us know what come out of your discussions.
David Held
Poughkeepsie Day School
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Fred Bartels
Nov 21, 2014, 8:27:33 AM11/21/14
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More inspiration than specific projects, but this talk by Michael Pawlyn joins Janine Benyus, presents a strong case for including biomimicry in our STEAM design toolkit.
Also see the website of Michael Pawlyn's firm. http://www.exploration-architecture.com/projects/biomimetic-office-building
On the subject of bringing biology into Maker spaces, are any schools experimenting with these. http://www.naturesfootprint.com/worm-factory-360 Seems to me they could open up a number of interesting lines of inquiry, experimentation and making.
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Diego Fonstad
Nov 21, 2014, 11:46:42 AM11/21/14
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Here's a quick list of the Life Sciences Projects we've done at Castilleja...
Microscope Building -
Teaching objective: The teacher wanted her students to better understand how a microscope worked so that they would be more facile with the classroom microscopes.
Project: Students assembled a simple compound microscope
Bones and Joints -
2014 version - in process with larger bones
2013 version http://www.thingiverse.com/make:52940
Teaching Objective: The teacher wanted her students to better understand the function and design of the musculoskeletal system.
Project: Students assemble a "functional" model of a human joint using materials of their choosing to represent the various components. Materials should be justified based on their function (ligaments, muscle, tendon, cartilage) A bone, or part of a bone is provided as the starting point. In 2013 and 2014 we 3D printed the bone parts for them to have (scaled down) human model as a starting point.
Circulatory System
Teaching objective: In addition to the names of the components of the circulatory system, the teacher wanted to students to better understand the actual function and flow.
Project; Students are given tubes, bottles, connectors and one way valves and asked to build a functional 2 chamber then 4 chamber herat.
Measuring Voltage of Sun
Cancer Biology Museum Exhibits
I think some of the work Angi is doing in Engineering Sustainable Solutions would qualify as Life Sciences
We also support occasional science projects as needed.
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Diego Fonstad
Nov 21, 2014, 11:52:50 AM11/21/14
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Some more life science work we're exploring (still on the workbench):
3d printed or laser cut molecules for explaining DNA/peptides etc.
Examples of things I've looked at/prototyped
http://makezine.com/projects/peppytides/ (this is cool but a little advanced and a bit of work to put together)
http://www.thingiverse.com/make:86401 (An upper school chemistry teacher is working on a variant of this)
Microscopic photography
Can we hack a microscope to take better and more interesting images. This is inspired by the Nikon Small World competition.
our first target will be to look at and film Yeast.
Jaymes Dec
Nov 21, 2014, 12:14:31 PM11/21/14
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I was actually just mining the Bourne Lab blog for ideas. This is a goldmine! Thank you!
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