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Powers of Three

-Pratap & Logeshwari Children from 8th  in Udavi were learning about the powers and exponents.  In order to demonstrate powers of three. I was thinking about how to make the cubes and I had a question of with what materials do I...

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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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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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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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scratch program to show equivalent fractions

The following program was created by a 7th grader with the use of functions to show how equivalent fractions work.   link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/361430777

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STEM Land Newsletter Volume 5 – Oct 18 – Jan 19

    STEM Land Newsletter        About STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) land STEM Land is located in two outreach schools of Auroville (Isai Ambalam and Udavi school). Volume-5, Oct ’18-Jan ’19 Children come to STEM Land for their Mathematics, EVS...

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STEMland Newsletter volume-6

~Saranya   STEM Land Newsletter Volume-6, Feb’19-May’19 About STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) land STEM Land is currently located in two outreach (Isai Ambalam and Udavi) schools of Auroville. Children come to STEM Land for their Mathematics, EVS and Science classes. They...

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STEM land meeting with Swati Sircar

~Poovizhi, Murali and Arun This week it was a large group of people in the meeting. Coordinators from Aikiyam, Udavi, Isai ambalam and AITI joined the meeting. Swati Sircar joined the meeting online. At first Sundar demonstrated Scratch projects on finding LCM...

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STEM land meeting with all STEM coordinators

~Murali and Poovizhi STEM land meeting with all STEM coordinators This  Friday (29/11/2019) we had an interesting sharing session. Abilash, Ranjith and Sivaraman presented an experiment on Electrolysis through which they generated hydrogen from water using salt and electricity. It was new...

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