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Ideas needed - JR Maker's club
Swarfing:
Rubber powered cars, boats and planes so they can have races at the end of the session....Lots of lolly pop stick affairs
PeterE:
A simple windmill that can power all sorts of smallish "tools" like pumps, cranes, merry-go-rounds, etc.
That also invites to work with the "mechanical alphabet" in terms of movements and transmissions.
Lollipop sticks, ice cream sticks, cardboard and glue.
/Peter
DMIOM:
--- Quote from: Sackett on May 19, 2016, 12:52:25 PM ---....... They also did balsa wood projects with a given weight limit .....
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Just hope you don't encounter the teacher I had at one time - balsa wood boat, but no glue allowed : in several cases the number of carpet tacks or panel pins used gave rise to negative buoyancy!
Dave
raynerd:
Eric, I teach science and over the last 10 years I`ve had the opportunity to take a number of students on various STEM projects, courses and activities. I appreciate I`ll be talking about 11-18 so older but I can`t imagine anything below to be not relevant.
The BEST by far, was 1 garden leaf blower, £20 won off ebay, £20 for a heafty 4" (maybe 6") thick sheet of dense insulation, proper KingSpan here in the UK. I accept that was an expense, but split between the cost of students for the session. They used the equipment, along with black bin liners, tape and a few other bits to make a hovercraft. It was AMAZING, it carried the kids but even carried me across the sports hall, many meters! I didn't run this session, I just attended it but it was truly brilliant.
Quite a few electronics projects, making small amplifiers to make a radio with a speaker, putting together fruit clocks.
We made bare bones "arduino" from scratch using http://start.shrimping.it/ These are very good and get over the cost of a full arduino.
WE built a raspberry Pi weather station. Me on the school roof:
Raspberry Pi minecraft server - I didn`t like this as I hate minecraft but the kids loved it and this was with Y7 (11 year olds)
Making a homemade incubator - parents will love them taking the chicks home...not! I hatched quails in ours and to be honest, some parents really liked having the chicks but this was agreed prior to incubation:
Using thermochromic paints. Here is an example of a pen but you can make some practical cups (showing when something is hot)
Cheers
Chris
Brass_Machine:
Hey guys,
Thanks for the ideas so far. I like them and keep them coming!
So it is 3rd grade and only 3rd grade... so 8 to 9 years of age. Most of these kids are pretty bright though.
Eric
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