My students need some lab equipment (spring sets, rubber stoppers, steel balls, a prism, and multimeters) to help them better understand abstract quantities like the spring constant and current.
$221 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
What makes the shocks work in your car? Well, it's that REALLY big spring constant, but my students don't know it (yet) because most of them have never even seen a spring. How do we measure electrical current? Well, right now we can't! Can you help, please?
My students are mostly juniors and seniors.
I have one class of freshmen. They attend a Title I school in Arizona that participates in the IB Programme. Approximately 1/3 of my students are IB diploma or certificate candidates, but every student in the school takes at least one IB science class at some point. The IB program is extremely rigorous and thorough and the students are dedicated and determined to succeed, limited only by the classroom equipment (or lack thereof). For most students, my class is their first, and possibly their last, experience with physics and it needs to be exciting, interactive, and hands-on to ensure maximum retention. One physics class can improve critical thinking and reasoning skills, which they can then use in every aspect of their life.
My Project
With the spring sets, students will be able to measure their various spring constants, thereby solidifying the concept of the spring constant in actual, physical objects. With the rubber stoppers, students will be able to build bottle rockets and learn about projectile motion and free fall.
Did you know that if you smash a piece of paper between 2 ball bearings you can burn a hole in it? My students will learn why with the steel balls (hint: energy transfer). With the multimeters, my students can finally measure the current in the circuits they construct. Would you really want the person who could be rewiring your home someday to not know how to use a multimeter? I didn't think so. Help them learn early!
Think back to your high school science class.
Do you remember more of the lectures or the labs, activities, and projects? Which has helped you more in your life?
Receiving the materials necessary to complete more labs and demonstrations will help solidify concepts by applying recently learned concepts to real life scenarios. With your help, I can make sure that our future generations have the critical thinking and reasoning skills they need to be successful in college, career, and life.
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