Teaching this summer has been so entertaining! I'm teaching two classes; one that emphasizes rocketry and stages of Mars colonization and one that is focusing on building structures on Mars.
Today we used Google SketchUp to design buildings for our Mars colony. Modeling domes was very challenging. One girl looked up directions on Google; it worked sort of.... Then a boy discovered 3D Warehouse and we had fun finding Mars colony designs that were already made.
As usual, it is hard to get a class to concentrate on working on computers when it is so tempting to surf the net. Also, several students are ignoring the no earbuds during class rule. Overall, the class went well and the students learned something new by using Google SketchUp.
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