Braedon’s Connection Based Learning

Define:

On September 9th 2022, we had a chat with Saul Mwame, who is a beekeeper from Tanzania and we were talking about how we can help to protect the bees. After the chat we talked about what we learned from the connection. I found it very interesting to learn about the bees.  After discussing with our groups we created a sway about bees and picked a wonder question to talk about. My wonder question that I chose was “what would the world look like without bees.” I learned a lot about bees after researching about it and hearing it from Saul. I learned about the importance of bees how they contribute to the environment and the ecosystem. On November 7th 2022, we had another connection with Saul Mwame and this time we learned about the predators who are harming the bee hives such as Honey Badgers and ants.

Discover:

After discussing with Saul, my group had a great idea to help protect the bees. We are going to be trying to create a motion sensor to alarm the beekeeper when there are predators near by and to scare them away. We will be 3d printing and using a microbit to create this motion detector. Many predators have been threatening the bee hives and have impacted the bees.  To accomplish this goal we need to be able to 3d print, code a microbit and have good patient as a group. Each person in our group will have task to complete this project. We will be looking up a tutorial to try to make a motion sensor with a microbit and alligator clips. My task is to help code the microbit in order to make the sensor. Once sensor is done we will print and build the circuit and shell.

Dream:

Since the talk with Saul, I have brainstormed interesting ideas with my group and are willing to help protect bees. Some ideas we talked about are making motion sensors with a hidden protective shell with a lighting system and ant repellent.  We talked about sending a notification to the beekeeper when there is a predator near by. Malcolm had an idea of when a honey badger is near, we could shine a bright light at the honey badger. We all agreed and decided to choose to make motion sensors which we will be focusing on for this project. Before making the design we can ask Saul for feedback to help us make it.

Debrief:

The solution fluency was good but the school didn’t have certain objects that we needed. We couldn’t find motion detector in the school but we instead used ultrasonic distance sensor thanks to Ms. York. The process of our post went very well. I could have improved on my dreaming because I think we did not brainstorm enough ideas which we could have done if we took more time to brainstorm. We also did not use our time wisely than we should’ve but otherwise it went well.

Sources:

https://makecode.microbit.org/

https://bc-robotics.com/tutorials/getting-started-ultrasonicbit-bbc-microbit/

Thank you to my group members, Cole coding the microbit, Malcolm designing and 3d printing.