Help me give my students an experience of construction of physical three-dimensional (3D) models of atoms in different size to make compounds and make investigations on them.
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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.
My students are coming from low socio-economic background, some of them are under McKinney program, most of them work at a job after school. Although they work at a job or babysit for their siblings after school, they try their best to stay after school for extracurricular activities.
I have students who develop research plan, conduct the research to join in the science competitions.
More than half of my students do STEM Festival projects. As a team together, My students and I started a project to construct our atomic models using a 3D printer. We plan to 3D-print and construct many balls, sticks to model atoms in different sizes to represent molecular arrangement of molecules.
My Project
There are bunch of benefits of this project to my kiddos. My students should following the latest advancements in chemistry education.
This project will help them to make investigations on atomic phenomena and experience constructing three dimensional models by using a 3D-printer.
They will use a scale to make relative calculation to decide what sizes are more scientific. Then they will construct the models using their calculations with a 3D-printer. They will use their self-built 3D models to make compounds and discuss many phenomena using them. Chemistry class should be a hands-on experience time for them and they should be provided opportunity to learn while applying the school knowledge. This is a "cool" application for them.
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