ALA day Tuesday Nov 9, 2004

Today was a continuation of thursday for the two different groups. The gaggle group spent the time working on making simple circuits with motors, batteries, homemade switches, and single stranded wires. As they were learning how to put the circuits together, the students were being taken two at a time to learn about the soldering iron. This format is scheduled to continue a bit Thursday and next tuesday as the kids who didn't get to solder do it this time, and we are going to add lights and buzzers into the circuits, as well as give them the chance to solder the apparatus that they build.

THe murder group worked on their story analysis today for the purposes of discussion tomorrow. After working with them today Joyce, Karie, and Gabe had some awesome suggestions about wednesday and how to seemingly get the kids engaged in the cycle again. Tomorrow they will discuss with me the story that they created, then they will create another, but this time, they have to use what they know about plot development to tell a story without using words or sound. It should prove interesting.