Today students used math to figure out how the gears they select affect the ease with which they are able to pedal. They calculated the gear ratios of their bikes by counting the number of teeth in their chain rings and cogs and counting the number of pedal revolutions vs. wheel revolutions. You can
check out this lesson and even do this on your own at home. Special thanks to former DRSS teacher and current Wright State Instructor, Peggy Kelly, for teaching the class this morning!
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| Mrs. Kelly talks about gear ratios. |
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| Mr. Grieve struggles to understand the math the students are doing. |
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| Riding the bike was a part of this experiment. Good excuse to ride in school! |
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| Thanks to Doug and Sam for being our faculty assistants. Here they are pictured working diligently to ensure every whistle has a lanyard. |
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| At the end of the lesson Mrs. Kelly explains how the relationship between the number of pedal revolutions (the Independent Variable) and the number of wheel rotations (Dependent Variable) is linear. |
Next, we took a short 10-mile ride to
Rosewood Arts Centre, one of the stops on this weekend's Bike the Arts Ride, sponsored by the
Kettering Arts Council. It's happening this Saturday starting at 10AM. Check out their
Facebook Event for more details. Hopefully you can make it out, as we are a stop on the trip! You can find out more about the classes offered at the Rosewood Arts Centre on their website's
"Learn" page.
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| One of the cool pieces at the Rosewood Centre. |
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| The Glass Studio! |
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| Special thanks to Jennifer Morris for showing us around! |
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| One of our favorite pieces! |
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| The pottery studio takes up three rooms! You can take classes nearly every day. |
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| We popped into a class to get a little information on pottery. |
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| Some of the pottery after being glazed and fired. |
Finally in the afternoon we were lucky enough to have a visit from Brian Witten of
K & G Bike Center who spoke to the kids about bike maintenance and how to do things like change a flat tire. This is his second year visiting the class. Special thanks to Brian and K & G for donating their time to the class! For the students whose bikes he didn't have time to work on, they have a
number of locations across the Dayton area. You can check them out on Facebook as well.
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| Brian explains how to check your brakes. |
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| Brian using one of our students' bikes to show how to change a flat. Students really learned a lot! |
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| Thanks to Brian for sticking around afterwards and helping kids out with individual bike problems! |
Tomorrow we'll be previewing some of the other stops on the Kettering
Bike the Arts Ride so we can help put together a brochure for people who aren't able to make it out this weekend. Hopefully you can make it out though!
During this day, Mr. Witten showed me how gears on bikes work and what to do if your chain slips or falls off.
ReplyDeleteDuring this day at the Rosewood Arts Center, we learned about the multiple processes to creating pottery, as well as watching pottery being made firsthand.
ReplyDeleteThis trip was a lot of fun. I learned what kind of studio professional artist needs.
ReplyDeleteSterling Says. I learned that when changing an innertube on a bike you should always inflate it a little first. This is because if you dont inflate it and you just slap it in there,when you fully inflate it,it will get pinched between the wheel and the tire, giving the rider an instant flat
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed learning the "why" in regard to gear ratios. I know how to use my gears and when to use each one, but didn't fully understand the mechanics of the chain rings and cogs until Ms. Kelly came in and talked to the class about it.
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