2020(S08) Lecture:week 2
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Week 2 Tuesday
Challenge: extra credit for extra parts?
Instructions: Last week you tried to understand a tape recorder by considering the components and subcomponents that operate inside it. Today you will demonstrate your understanding of the machine by re-assembling it from those components..."what I cannot create, I do not understand." and all that...Take a careful look at your parts list and your notes from last time. The team that can reassemble their tape recorder from the greatest number of parts will win this challenge. You have 1/2 an hour to work on this task.
At the end of the 1/2 hour we will spend some time tallying the successes of the groups and discussing the exercise in terms of scientific vs engineering efforts.
Before you leave today: Spend 5 minutes to complete your response journal entry. In your response, you should note:
- what the activity was
- why you think it might have been included in this class
- if the activity helped you think about:
- how can biology be made easier to engineer?
- what are the consequences of success?
- what clever ways has nature found to solve physical challenges?
- in what ways does nature innovate?
- if the activity has given you any new tools/considerations that could be useful for your project.
Upload these responses to homework dropbox using the "lecture response journal" tab found here
For next time
Look again at the Adventures in SB as well as the original storyboard that's here. This storyboard was sketched on regular paper by Drew as he was flying from one place to another. You should give some thought to the two chapter script you're working on and think about ways to sketch a storyboard from it. This will prepare you for work in the studio tomorrow. Please print out your script to bring to the studio tomorrow as well as upload the script to your personal design portfolio that's here.
Week 2 Studio
Part 1: WHAP! BAM! Gadzooks!
Begin today by reading the following script and looking at the associated storyboards that are here. Next, think about how to storyboard your script. You do not need any fancy animation tools and there's no extra credit for finishing first or for fancy images. Ideally you'll use no more than 4 sheets of paper to fully sketch your script. Please be sure your name is on all the pieces of paper. You have up to an hour to complete your sketches.
When you have completed your sketches, find a place on the wall to hang your work, and then spend 1/2 an hour walking around the room checking out what others have done.
Part 2: Robbing Peter to pay Paul
In the second part of today's studio, you should consider one of these two articles:
Both deal with costly inefficiencies and indirection. Land to make grain to feed livestock to feed us. Iron to make microbes to affect CO2 to affect global warming. You should spend 10 minutes reading one article then spend the rest of your time discussing the articles at your table. In your conversations you might want to
- list the "six degrees of separation" it takes to convert a resource into a commodity
- consider the cost or profit made along each connecting step
- brainstorm ways to reduce the inefficiencies and indirection
Your thinking about these business models will inform the reading you'll do for next time, helping you calculate a cost/benefit ratio for biofuel production.
For next time
Read the Department of Energy primer about Switchgrass pdf and then the news story in Nature pdf describing the backlash against plans to grow switchgrass for ethanol. Write a paragraph describing your ideas on switchgrass for ethanol production. Please bring your paragraph to lecture next week as well as upload it to your personal design portfolio that's here.
Time for completion: <1/2 hour of reading, <1/2 hour of writing.
Week 2 Thursday
Challenge: You decide
There are three topics on today's table: Climate Change, Nanotechnology, and Genetic Testing. Choose one topic of interest to you, find that game table to play "Decide." With a minimum of 4 people (or a maximum of 8 people) you can start to play. Everyone at the table will have
- one placemat/workboard describing the issue
- White story cards
- Green information cards
- Blue issue cards
- Red challenge cards
- Yellow cards to facilitate discussion
- Begin choosing a reader the topic's description that's written in the upper lefthand corner of each placemat
- Choose a different reader for the 4 policy positions that your group will ultimately decide between.
- Finally choose a different reader to read the discussion guidelines that are written in the bottom lefthand corner of each placemat.
For next time
Teamwork/leadership assessment?
