UTEACH &

UTEACH MAKER

STEP 1 & 2

Although I was unfamiliar with making at the time, my first lesson in step 1 involved buoyancy. We had students from the elementary school design their own clay boat and see how many paperclips they could put inside the boat before it sank to the bottom.

Afterwards, through inquiry, we discussed why their boat possibly sank faster than others.

PHYSICS BY INQUIRY

Physics by Inquiry is a college physics course that give students the opportunity to explore physics behind electrical circuits and optics through inquiry and hands on experience.

For the final project, we were to showcase our knowledge of what we have learned into a final maker project. Since I loved circuits, and Christmas was approaching, I decided to make my own My Hero Academia themed christmas card.

The card used parallel circuits to ensure that each LED light received a larger amount of current (unlike when in series whereby the current is split between each LED).

Big thanks to Garrett Mott for taking this picture for me!!!

PROJECT BASED INSTRUCTION

Project based Instruction is a student-driven teaching method whereby students investigate either a natural phenomena or real world problem.

For the lesson developed by Christina Hull and I, students where to investigate how they could get a LED light to work using basic household materials during a blackout situation. The students were given limes, lemons, oranges, copper wire, magnesium wire, zinc wire, and alligator clips.

For the final artifact, students developed a poster of how they were able to get their homemade battery to work, the difficulties involved, and were examples of ionic, covalent, and polar covalent bonding was taking place. At the end, students provided feedback on each individual project.