Here’s what happened with Ethan this past week.
Note to Natasha from Dong Eun:
We appreciate all the links and thoughtfulness in providing resources to Ethan. We check all the things you send over the course of the week as they are really helpful. The resources help Ethan expand his knowledge and curiosity as he explores new things that he may not have thought or knew about.
October 6
in this blog post, Ethan is taking over. and maybe some more.
From Dong Eun:
Thanks to Natasha for the links to the dry ice experiments. Ethan really enjoyed the experiments and plans on doing an experiment every time we get dry ice.
He also really enjoyed the link to the article about the optical illusion on the side of a building: Optical Illusion
October 7
he also went for taekwondo and violin practice today.
October 8
he also went out and played with friends today!
October 9
This is from Mink, his nature school teacher:
Taking advantage of the surprisingly sunny weather, the Wednesday North Van group made the short trek down to a nice open field in the morning. A big game of wolf ball was enjoyed by many, while others practice crushing stones to make rock paint, and rolling rocks Down hills within some safe parameters. Afterwards, everyone came together for an exciting story about the lives of Rick and Tom Brown learning scout skills under the tutelage of an Lipon Apache elder named Stalking Wolf. A new instructor who will be taking Devon’s group for the month of October was also welcomed into the fold. The team is excited to have Craig joining them for a time!
Mink’s group opted to hang around in the big open field with Scott’s group. Finally it was time to play a game that Mink has been keeping in her back pocket for weeks. This team building game involved four teams and four different coloured pool noodles to be used as swords. Teams had to direct their warrior (who was blindfolded) to pick up the right coloured sword and hit other teams warriors with it. The problem is that only one person could see, and only one person could speak! This hilarious game of broken telephone lasted for about an hour and a half. Tales of the glories of battle re-counted over a relaxing lunch as everyone soaked up the sun. After lunch, Mink’s group separated to work on a couple of crafts. Bow drills were brought out, and everyone started working on a small elderberry container, to be finished next week!
October 10
Here is the video he made about pi versus tau: https://youtu.be/2GNoYEtyKQs
From Dong Eun:
Normally, when Ethan makes his videos he doesn’t prepare in advance. He knows what the topic is that he wants to talk about and just says what’s in his head. However, for the pi versus tau video, he felt that the subject was more complicated so he wrote a script.
October 11
October 12
We appreciate all the links and thoughtfulness in providing resources to Ethan. We check all the things you send over the course of the week as they are really helpful. The resources help Ethan expand his knowledge and curiosity as he explores new things that he may not have thought or knew about.
I am doing my best to find and offer him new and inspiring things to consider. It is difficult because I never took physics, trigonometry or calculus, nor do I know even a fraction of what Ethan knows about space.
I was wondering, have you considered finding a mentor for Ethan in math or space studies? I spoke with Self Design and he is allowed to use LRS funds for paying a mentor for their time.
I am also pursuing finding mentors in his are who could work with him through the lead resource curator of the LE Library. She was the one who offered all of the space and math resources last summer.
Pi vs Tau video
reading The Tau Manifesto by Michal Hartl.
learning how to calculate pi.
transcript for a video he is making about pi and tau
From Dong Eun:
Normally, when Ethan makes his videos he doesn’t prepare in advance. He knows what the topic is that he wants to talk about and just says what’s in his head. However, for the pi versus tau video, he felt that the subject was more complicated so he wrote a script.
How wonderful that Ethan wrote a script. He did the research and decided the content was so specific and complicated that he wanted to be more prepared and cover all the points. I wonder if he will write more scripts from now on.
Sometimes I find his videos a bit long for me to watch, maybe he will make edited and quick version videos as well. Math can not be rushed I suppose and he wants to demonstrate his findings as well as teach them clearly. I am a bit lost already in his level in math so I appreciate his step by step videos.
history. today he learned about black plague! aka black death
I remember being fascinated by the Black Death or Black Plague. Here is some more info for Ethan if he is still wondering:
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/black-death/
I also posted a video below.
Ethan answered many of my questions from Week 5 and I was quite impressed by the amount he wrote, the depth of his responses and his clear self reflection.
I was wondering have you had a chance to look at the list of “I Can Statements” for the fall reflections?
Ethan can check these out and see if he has a goal for the year based on the different Core Competencies. I am sure he can do many of these. See what inspires him these days for the year ahead.
Please let me know if you can not open this document too:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l82lmKZhXYNt4GjIJFVkxdvxtOvYORMMPGYyHD0DXNo/edit
Are you keeping all of these[ideas] in one notebook?
yes, actually! I usually keep them in my main notebook. the one that I write my stories, and what I did for the day!.
Do you refer to it before you make videos?
not exactly, but I keep the notebook close sometimes, so I can refer back to it. so, I usually learn about the subject, then I sometimes teach it to my mom, then, once, I made a transcript, because I didn’t remember what to say. then, usually, I decide what format to make my video in, (like drawing, drawing on the computer, making a slideshow, or Powtoon.) then, I make the video!
Do you use this journal as a place to brainstorm and plan out your instructional videos as well?
not really, I kind of go right at it, then if I get it wrong, I check my notebook. but, most of my space-science videos are from the notebook that I already talked about!
What is it about Jeremy Shafer that you so enjoy, Ethan?
oh, yeah. well, he is silly, and a good teacher because he goes slow in the instructional videos! he loves origami too!
Does he do things in his Youtubes that you would try to emulate?
yes, maybe plan out what I am going to do and say before I record my video(like my transcript I use a lot- oh wait, that was only once.).
What are your Halloween plans?
my Halloween plans? well, my costume is gonna be something related to space, or math, so I have no idea. (yet!)
Where do your new ideas come from?
mostly from fun things(like things that are fun in math, and science, and other things)(for example, when I watch a video and I see something cool, I learn more, then I just do it), and my writing mainly comes from NASA.
What are you curious about?
well, mostly about things that are fun to do, like for example space, because of all the things that are being discovered every day (like a live video)!
How have you used questions to learn more about something?
well… not really, technically when I have a question, I will look it up on google or something…(I can’t think of a time I used a question to learn more, so I need some help.)(my mom just said that she is gonna ask more questions from now on)
How could you share your idea with others?
well, I would share it as a blog or something on youtube! (I don’t tell my friends because I have too many things to talk about, so I just tell them to go to my youtube channel.)
What are the different ways you could share your ideas?
well, (a) I could share it as a blog post, (b) I could upload a video, (c) I could write
about the subject,(d)talk about it to people, (e)make a viral video, or (f)scream it out the window(needs more work).
When did you try something new this week? How did that go?
well, this week, I tried different things with dry ice, and that was fun because there are so many things to do! thanks for the inspiration!
When did you try something hard this week? How did that go?
these days, I learned how to shoot a projectile at a slope, and learning how to calculate the distance up the slope it landed!(this was hard because there are so many things to do and remember the ways to do it!)but, that was fun, because I learned how to do something new!
Tell [me] about a time you made a mistake …
well, there is the Arduino number keypad coding, and I made a mistake in the coding! so, if you make a mistake in the code, the whole thing “malfunctions”, and it shows an error message!
When was a time when you learned from a mistake you made?
that one about the Arduino, I learned that you should always follow the instructions, and you may make mistakes while following the instructions! (so don’t worry if you make a mistake)(must fix it after though)
What is the number keypad for? (Arduino)
the number keypad was just for connecting it to the computer, and it will type out a number!
Does Ethan get frustrated? How does he handle these more difficult emotions these days?
Carl and Dong Eun answering…
No, it doesn’t seem like he gets frustrated these days. He seems to handle most situations really well. Since he chooses the situations he wants to be a part of, he doesn’t need to deal with many challenging or frustrating situations compared to kids who are in a classroom.
When he goes to his classes, those are mostly fun and engaging. He goes to the school playground almost every day after the kids get out of school to play with his friends and does things he enjoys.
The only time he gets annoyed is when we ask him questions while he’s focused on doing something and he doesn’t feel like answering. Or when he’s tired he can get frustrated.
Overall, he handles his emotions quite well. This Tuesday, he will be starting a new mindfulness class so that might help him learn new tools for dealing with his emotions.
Please share any new techniques and activities that he really enjoys in his new mindfulness class. I like to pass them on to other learners.
Looking for ways to play with dry ice, bubbles
Thanks to Natasha for the links to the dry ice experiments. Ethan really enjoyed the experiments and plans on doing an experiment every time we get dry ice.
He also really enjoyed the link to the article about the optical illusion on the side of a building: Optical Illusion
More optical illusions by other artists: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/04/new-geometric-projections-by-felice-varini-in-paris/
This one would have been magnificent to behold at the Louvre:
Spanish practice
Violin homework
doing some EMF. doing a quiz on ordered n-tuples
math: the intersection points of sin x and cos x.
Teaching it too on blackboard
also for math! graphing y=tan(x). Carl here… Ethan was reminded of this topic after doing the work on the intersection points of sin x
I wish I could comment more of all the math Ethan is learning of late, but all I can say is wow. Keep going! You passion is palpable.
today, Ethan learned about launching and landing on different elevations.
he learned about sinsodual functions.
then, physics! he learnded about how to get the distance a projectile travels up a hill.
he learned about the definitions of 9 words, and had to match them up
for writing, he learned about what the sun does as it gets older.
writing an e-mail to his LC.!
this is what he is making in nature school: an elderberry container!
- reading xkcd.this was “what would happen if there was a robot apocalypse?”
Listening to an audiobook: Adventure According to Humphrey
like, for example, if you look up “do a barrel roll”, google will literally do a barrel roll. try it!
writing down all the google secrets
This Youtuber is even younger than Ethan!
Meet a 12 year girl who is the youngest published scientist in the world! Her method? She starts with a question and everything unfolds from there!
So I typed in do a barrel roll and I found all these other tricks. Ethan do you know more than these?
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