(formerly Aura Auro Design) – LEARN, GROW, WORK, TEACH
We usually have visitors to STEM Land and this week around 20 trainees of the Puchki program(trains teachers to take up environmental aspects) in Auroville had come to STEM Land. They were so excited to see what the children were doing in...
Read out allDuring Maths class children were having difficulty in telling tables quickly. Our children were able to tell tables in order but it was difficult when it was random. So we started using Vaughn cube. Vaughn cube is a set of videos which...
Read out allLink : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/engfmt/1.1.0 engfmt – It is a package used to read and write numbers in engineering format. In engineering format a number generally includes the units if available and uses SI scale factors to indicate the magnitude of the number. For...
Read out allChildren from 8th were learning algebra and had difficulties with the sign operations. They were able to come up with stories of multiplying minus into plus, plus into minus and plus into plus but they couldn’t come up with a story of...
Read out all1. Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). 2. Install imagemagick by sudo apt-get install imagemagick 2. Go to the directory of the folder in which you want to reduce the image size. 3. Then type the following command mogrify -resize...
Read out allRoof: The Roof was built with slabs that were attached together with bindings, and sealed off with some material that had become torn and corroded. Thus making rain water seep in. The solution was covering the cracks with tar sheets. Naveen had...
Read out allNaveen and I were trying to visualise (x + y + z)^3 with Lavanya a 9th grader in Udavi using the Montessori Cube. We are able to formulate (x + y + z)^3 = x^3 + y^3 +z^3 + 3x^2y + 3x^2z...
Read out allIn STEM Land 9th std children were very eager to do the Quad copter. They wanted to do something different which inspires themselves as well others. We are building an i-smart class room and the 9th std children wanted to paint the...
Read out allPainting Outside: Third graders took responsibility to paint outside. This being a room for clay and woodwork, we wanted to paint it with a natural brownish red-soil color. We inquired with a few painters and once they understood our idea, they all...
Read out allIn Isai Ambalam school children waned to make different types of lights to use it during sleep over. It took 2 to 3 weeks to build a nice wooden torch. So they started cutting the bamboo during STEM land period. Once they...
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