This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
My classroom consists of fourth and fifth grade students with high functioning autism. We are on the Common Core curriculum and follow the same pacing plan as the general education classes.
My students are motivated and have a thirst for knowledge.
I provide a safe and fun environment for them to learn in. Roughly half the day I teach in a whole group setting, while the other half is spent in small group settings where I can pinpoint and focus on individual weaknesses. We are a low income, Title I school made up of ELD and SEL students. Most of my students do not have access to technology outside of the classroom.
My Project
My students love Science and Engineering. My students always anticipate the day when I demonstrate a science fact with real hands on activities. Our Next Generation Science Standards expects us to make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
I want to bring science and engineering to the forefront and get my students ready to answer some tough questions!
SunnyTech has some really cool miniature combustion engines that use heat, from a small candle, that turns a fly wheel. A Stirling engine operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air. My students will see and learn how Potential energy is converted to heat energy, then kinetic energy, and then finally converted back to heat energy in the form of light with a vareity of SunnyTech Stirling Engines.
This awesome demonstration will get my students to love science even more!
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