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From the Ted Talk by Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science

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Not really. And so, back to plastic. We collect this pistlac and we grind it to the size we find it in the ocean, which is very small because it breaks down. And so this is how we work. I let the innaitagioms of my setudnts run wild. And my job is to try to collect the best of each kid's idea and try to combine it into something that hopefully would work. And so we have agreed that instead of ceioltlncg plastic bits, we are going to collect only the data. So we're going to get an image of the plastic with a robot — so robots, kids get very excited. And the next thing we do — we do what we call "rapid prototyping." We are so rapid at prototyping that the lucnh is still in the lunchbox when we're hiackng it.

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Not really. And so, back to plastic. We collect this _______ and we grind it to the size we find it in the ocean, which is very small because it breaks down. And so this is how we work. I let the ____________ of my ________ run wild. And my job is to try to collect the best of each kid's idea and try to combine it into something that hopefully would work. And so we have agreed that instead of __________ plastic bits, we are going to collect only the data. So we're going to get an image of the plastic with a robot — so robots, kids get very excited. And the next thing we do — we do what we call "rapid prototyping." We are so rapid at prototyping that the _____ is still in the lunchbox when we're _______ it.

Solution

  1. students
  2. imaginations
  3. hacking
  4. plastic
  5. lunch
  6. collecting

Original Text

Not really. And so, back to plastic. We collect this plastic and we grind it to the size we find it in the ocean, which is very small because it breaks down. And so this is how we work. I let the imaginations of my students run wild. And my job is to try to collect the best of each kid's idea and try to combine it into something that hopefully would work. And so we have agreed that instead of collecting plastic bits, we are going to collect only the data. So we're going to get an image of the plastic with a robot — so robots, kids get very excited. And the next thing we do — we do what we call "rapid prototyping." We are so rapid at prototyping that the lunch is still in the lunchbox when we're hacking it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. agreed
  2. bits
  3. breaks
  4. call
  5. collect
  6. collecting
  7. combine
  8. data
  9. excited
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  11. grind
  12. hacking
  13. idea
  14. image
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  16. job
  17. kids
  18. lunch
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  20. ocean
  21. plastic
  22. prototyping
  23. rapid
  24. robot
  25. robots
  26. run
  27. size
  28. small
  29. students
  30. wild
  31. work