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Government school teachers visiting STEMland 

~ Arun Government school teachers from Cuddalore visited STEMland a couple of weeks back. Lakshmi who works for Tata consultancy was inspired by the model of STEmland and she has been engaging with us since then. We are working on a project right...

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NON NEWTONIAN FLUID

~ Madhavan, Arun A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid that does not follow Newton’s law of viscosity, i.e., constant viscosity independent of stress. In non-Newtonian fluids, viscosity can change when under force to either more liquid or more solid. [more..] PREPARATION :  Preparation of the non Newtonian...

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Scratch project on cube

~ ranjith Here I have created project to show that solid shapes is made up of infinity sheet of surface in scratch. It helps children to understand the relation between area of square and volume of cube by looking at this program....

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Unit digit of a cube number

-Logeshwari 8th graders in Udavi School were learning about the squares and cubes. This is a simple scratch project to show the unit digit of cube of a number. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/366990201/

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Fraction multiplication V2

Link to V1 :  From the STEMland scaling session with Swathi on Friday, the input received was to make the multiplication to be a perfect square to show that 1/4 is smaller than 1/3. Murali from 9th grade implemented the change:  

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Session on Pi

~ Abilash An interactive session was  given to the young students of TLC about Pi,  radius, diameter, area, and circumference. The class started with a brief introduction about each of the concept. Later the students were asked to measure the circumference of...

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Arduino Extension for Scratch 3.0

Scratch 3.0 doesnot have the standard extension to interface with the popular open source physical computing platforms like Arduino. An extension was build to communicate with the arduino platform. Arduino Uno needs to be flashed with the firmata firmware from the examples....

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Scratch Madala at Aikiyam school

Pratap This week me and Murali went to Aikiyam to teach shapes using scratch. We started with the drawing a straight line. Then asked children to draw a triangle . Children took some time and then figured out the angle to draw...

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Visualising solid shapes

We,8th graders at Isai Ambalam school children started a lesson called visualising solid shapes in mathematics. We used sodo cubes to understand different views of  a solid shape.  Children have been divided into four groups. 20 sodo cubes were given to each...

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Multiplication

~Saranya, Sundar and Madhavan Here we have created project on multiplication using graph in scratch. It helps children to understand double digit number multiplication by looking at this program. In that project violet is Hundred’s Green is Ten’s and Red is One’s.

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