Student learning needs to be hands-on and brains-on to encourage deeper levels of thinking. This project will use basic household items like paper plates, markers, coffee filters, glitter, pipettes, toothpicks, foil, tape, glue, and Play-Doh to encourage students to think like an engineer and design products to meet design challenges.
STEM projects encourage students to use problem-solving skills as well as their creativity to design projects just like an engineer. While this may sound like fun, it also encourages students to have perseverance when a challenge gets frustrating and look at problems with a different viewpoint while applying different science concepts to their project. Imagine a world of people who can problem-solve and not give up when life gets tough!
When funded all of my students will receive a STEM kit that will allow them to design boats that float, learn about water surface tension on a penny, create a tower that can support weight, view a tornado in a bottle, think like a detective to study fingerprints, form the longest chain, and to see a rainbow before their very own eyes.
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Student learning needs to be hands-on and brains-on to encourage deeper levels of thinking. This project will use basic household items like paper plates, markers, coffee filters, glitter, pipettes, toothpicks, foil, tape, glue, and Play-Doh to encourage students to think like an engineer and design products to meet design challenges.
STEM projects encourage students to use problem-solving skills as well as their creativity to design projects just like an engineer. While this may sound like fun, it also encourages students to have perseverance when a challenge gets frustrating and look at problems with a different viewpoint while applying different science concepts to their project. Imagine a world of people who can problem-solve and not give up when life gets tough!
When funded all of my students will receive a STEM kit that will allow them to design boats that float, learn about water surface tension on a penny, create a tower that can support weight, view a tornado in a bottle, think like a detective to study fingerprints, form the longest chain, and to see a rainbow before their very own eyes.
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