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2023

Maker Lab: full course materials

This is an open inquiry natural science lab course utilizing Maker tools (e.g. inexpensive electronic sensors/sensorboards controlled by Arduinos). Students are tasked with conceiving, designing, and carrying out scientific experiments with significant process guidance but little experimental oversight, instead leveraging the Maker movement's online resources and open source hardware and software tools. Target audience: The course is given at Amsterdam University College to a multidisciplinary mix of natural science bachelor's students, usually in their second or third year of a three year bachelor's. Duration / Study load: 6 ECTS course, equivalent to ~168 total hours of student work, evenly spread across a 16 week term Over-arching learning goals: (see also the Learning Objectives subpage for specific, assessable list) students navigate the iterative empirical research process, including conception, experimental design, testing, data & uncertainty analyses, and drawing conclusions students build self-efficacy in conducting quantitative empirical research and creating scientific knowledge students improve science communication skills in an authentic (team) setting Directory: Course materials are published in the following locations (see links to them below) course description (pre-requisites, learning activities, teaching roles, grouping of students, learning environment) learning objectives course schedule readings and lecture slides for students assignments (and rubrics) resource list: facilities, equipment, software JupyterPython-materials zip file This page's linked websites give official course descriptions. Any questions about this Maker Lab course can be addressed to Forrest via: forrestbradbury@gmail.com

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Forrest Bradbury

2023

Maker Lab assignments (and rubrics)

The subpages below link to the Maker Lab assignments, where the two Open Inquiries (and their relevant assignments) make up 80% of the students' final course grades. An overview of the assignments, their weightings, and their connections to course learning objectives can be found in the Maker Lab course description document (under the Maker Lab course information page).

Forrest Bradbury

2023

Maker Lab course description

This Maker Lab course description is an internal document which communicates the structure of the course to students. Some extra comments are also included for the benefit of interested instructors.

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Forrest Bradbury

2023

Maker Lab learning objectives

The Maker Lab course learning objectives, along with some over-arching learning goals, are detailed in this document. *For an "assessment matrix" (a list of how the course's assignments assess its learning objectives), please instead see the course description document.

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Forrest Bradbury

2023

Maker Lab course schedule (example)

This example Maker Lab course schedule is meant to help show how the course is structured and implemented. In addition to the full .pdf schedule, a pictoral representation is given to show the basic timeline, starting with skills training and then two open inquiries. Note that this example schedule has benefitted from four previous course iterations, and has been tweaked each time for better and more efficient student support. Instructors implementing open inquiry lab projects for the first time are advised to schedule in a bit extra student contact time until they have a good sense of when and how the students need to be supported.

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Forrest Bradbury

2023

Maker Lab Assignments: Two Main Open Inquiry Projects

Two thirds of the Maker Lab course is dedicated to two large open inquiry projects which students conceive, design, and carry out in pairs. As detailed in Appendix 1 of the Maker Lab course description (linked below), there are seven rules limiting students' open inquiry project topics: projects must involve empirical research in one or more of the natural sciences the research methods must utilize quantitative modeling of empirical measurements the research methods must utilize an Arduino in some non-trivial way (usually for controlling electronic sensors, or sometimes just using its voltage measurement capabilities) something in the inquiry must go beyond high school level science: the research methods (measurement techniques and/or mathematical modeling) and/or the scientific phenomena being studied projects must be doable within the allowed time, with some buffer for inevitable failed trials or delays and time to iteratively improve • no more than 40 euros may be spent per project (often for buying a new kind of sensor or various unstocked equipment or supplies). Basic supplies are already included in the student toolboxes and many other types of equipment are already in-stock in the Maker Closet, so permission must be asked and granted before purchasing items. The costs (including shipping) will be reimbursed if reusable equipment will be returned (or if consumable items are used sparingly) and if official receipts of purchases are submitted. Finally, since the projects are relatively short, shipping times need to be a couple days max and shipping from outside the EU is not possible (due to long delays in customs). students must follow safe and ethical practices in their work, where safety is regulated by adhering to equipment user manuals and discussions with instructor (and direct supervision and/or help if dangerous equipment or substances are required), while ethical practices begin by following AUC’s ethics checklist and oversight procedures for pursuing any experiments with humans, animals, data or property of others, or environmental systems. See Canvas for more information. The subpages below link to the following: grading form for pre-recorded video "Midway" presentation grading form for pre-recorded video "Final" presentation Maker Lab course schedule (example) where the open inquiry supervision process is detailed per class-session Maker Lab course description, which includes practicalities of the open inquiry process and assessment Lecture Notes chapter 6: Empirical Research Process (a rough guide to the iterative process of empirical open inquiry) Additionally, this page itself includes two documents: a template for the students' pre-proposal at the start of each open inquiry project (which must be approved by the instructor) a template for students' electronic lab journals (which is not currently assessed for the course grade) Both of these template documents are Jupyter Notebook files. If you do not (yet) have Jupyter Notebook, you cannot fully utilize the .ipynb file. But the PDF documents (also attached) will give an idea of their content and functionality.

Forrest Bradbury

2023

Maker Lab resource list: facilities/equipment/software

For now, there is no document to share beyond this summary of the facilities, equipment, and software: FACILITIES: The Maker Lab is a fully flipped lab in the sense that students mainly do their experimental work outside of the classroom without teacher supervision. Thus, no laboratory is needed. The class-sessions happen in a regular classroom. The only lab-related "facility" is a 4 square meter closet (the "Maker Closet") where the the equipment is stored: EQUIPMENT: each pair of students gets toolboxes to take home which all contain Arduinos, pliers, wires, breadboards, etc. The "Maker Closet" additionally stores various electronic sensors and basic electronic and construction tools and supplies (connectors, tape, tripod-stands, batteries, SDcards, etc). Note: Fairly often, students identify useful sensors (or supplies) that are not stocked but are affordable and well-suited to their research plans. Suppliers of Maker tools and electronics often have great user manuals and instructional videos and can ship these products quickly. Students submit receipts and are reimbursed for their purchases, which in turn helps to grow the collection of equipment each year. SOFTWARE: students need the following free software: Arduino IDE software (Interactive Development Environment) the Python Anaconda distribution, which includes Jupyter Notebook sometimes also drivers for interfacing their laptops with the Arduino via a USB cable

Forrest Bradbury

2023

Supporting Students’ Scientific Open Inquiries in Labs (SssOIL) collection

Supporting Students’ Scientific Open Inquiries in Labs (aka SssOIL) is a group devoted to using and sharing open inquiry teaching methods in higher education science lab courses. The group members are: Lesley de Putter: Eindhoven School of Education (Eindhoven University of Technology) Paul Logman: Physics & ICLON (Leiden University) Morten Strømme: Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (University of Amsterdam) Simone Mesman: Swammerdam Life Sciences (University of Amsterdam) Martijs Jonker: Swammerdam Life Sciences (University of Amsterdam) Forrest Bradbury: Amsterdam University College This page contains links to the group's playbook for open inquiry (both English and Dutch) and the sub-pages below link to individual collections of course materials from several open inquiry lab courses, as well as the team's article on "How to design open inquiry labs". Any questions about this entire collection can be addressed to our team via: S3OIL@outlook.com

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Forrest Bradbury, Paul Logman, Simone Mesman, Morten Stromme

1 september 2023

Full course materials minor Science, Technology & Innovation: Biomimicry

The Biomimicry minor at the University of Amsterdam is a full-time, semester-long program (30 EC), guiding students through biomimicry's principles. This minor employs a hands-on approach where participants design bio-inspired prototypes, from ideation to execution. Utilizing UvA's Makerspace, students make use of advanced tools to create viable technological applications that mimic nature’s solutions. The curriculum integrates theory with prototyping workshops, including 3D-printing and programming, adding up to a multidisciplinary learning environment. Directory of Resources: •⁠ ⁠The full course description •⁠ ⁠Detailed learning goals and assessments •⁠ ⁠Assessment rubrics- rubrics

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Morten Stromme

2023

Maker Lab Assignment: Semi-structured_Experiments

Before the Maker Lab students begin the open inquiry phases, they first learn and practice some important skills, supported by small assignments. This assignment is a "structured", or "guided" inquiry, where students know ahead of time the result they should find, but have agency in their experimental design, within some prescribed limits. By assigning all teams different methods for addressing a single research question (currently: estimating the acceleration due to gravity), they are encouraged to reflect upon how experimental design and equipment limits the certainty of empirical findings. This assignment requires teams of four students (organized into two pairs, each performing the experiment separately, but analyzing data and reporting on conclusions together). In two weeks (wherein students' course workload is 10 hours per week), the teams must set up experiments, controlling sensors with self-programmed Arduinos, collect and analyze experimental data, and create a pre-recorded video presentation to be viewed in class and aimed at their peers, followed by a Q&A. Note: If you do not (yet) have Jupyter Notebook, you cannot fully utilize the .ipynb file. But the attached PDF will give an idea of its content and functionality. Note also: In order to interact with and fully utilize the Jupyter Notebook documents (including their hyperlinks and pointers to data and image files), it is helpful to save the entire collection locally in a way that preserves the original directory structure. This is easiest to accomplish by downloading all files at once via the JupyterPython-materials zip file and unpacking it (extracting the files) to your preferred local directory. This zip file of all Jupyter Notebook materials is located here: https://search.edusources.nl/materialen/d144774e-9705-489a-b3cd-28e3618f7324 Contents: partial experimental instructions (for students) in Jupyter Notebook: Semi-structured_Experiments.ipynb (and .pdf ) grading form for pre-recorded video presentation (both .docx and .pdf )

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Forrest Bradbury