Water
Water was our next Source to explore, we had a few hours together on brainstorming of what water is and what do we use it for. Then came the talk about with what does water mix or what gets dissolved in water…...
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The following class a similar battery model was shown and the children figured out on how to connect the rods ( Cu and Zn ) so that electricity could flow from one bottle to another and so on until the terminals reached...
Read out allBuilding a Battery model
The sixth grade children are super interested when you do something new in class, that’s what happened when we all together build battery models using lemon, copper and zinc rods to produce sufficient electricity to turn on a led 😉 and a...
Read out allDisentanglement Puzzles with the Sixth Graders
At Stem Land we have a huge collection of disentanglement puzzles, and the students decide that they had to figure them out. The atmosphere was covered with low conversations and sudden bursts of joy, suddenly a child will be ‘like yeah i...
Read out allBuilding a miniature Catapult
Along with a Sixth Grader, who was interested in medieval times, and so came the thought of building a miniature catapult with him. It consisted of blocks and nylon ropes that acted as the torsional element. after building it, he tried a...
Read out allAlice in STEMLAND
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a...
Read out allSTEM land Inauguration
We inaugurated the STEM land on 9th October 2015. It was one of my awesome moment in my life. I learnt a lot in that period( like organizing the materials, maintaining the STEM books, planning for inauguration and 3D printing). STEM land...
Read out allDebugging simulation run errors “integration methods”
When your simulation can’t complete and ends unexpectedly….. go to the Simulate/ control panel/Spice .. and change the default integration method to “GEAR” and things should run fine..
Read out allThe Hindu article about the STEMLAND
Making, tinkering and engineering their way to knowledge School uses theory of constructivism, which says knowledge is not taught to a learner At the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Land and Resource Centre at Udavi School in Auroville, young Hemasundar is busy...
Read out allGetting ‘officially’ started in STEMLAND
The inauguration of STEMland has just happened. It feels good to be part of something different and useful for children as well as adults who are into math, technology, electronics etc… Over the past month and a half STEMland has given me...
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