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~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.

~Saranya

2nd Grade at Isai Ambalam we were working on different types of lines. Children learnt standing line, slanting line, sleeping line and curved line. We split children into 4 groups and I gave 1 task to each group. Each group built different shapes example alphabetic’s, house and toys with some constrain, which is 1. they should use all the 4 lines. 2. specific constrain 2-standing line, 3 slanting line, 6 sleeping line and 1 curved line etc…

Children did creatively  they had done the lines task. Each group built different shapes and they worked together. I was able to see team work ex: one child drawing before pasting the stick on the paper another child giving idea to put things around and in, another child cutting the sticks with needed size.

~ Vimal, Abilash, Ranjith

An interactive session on the concepts React, Respond & Realise was held with kids to understand the various types of brain parts associated with these emotional reactions. Kids learnt about the types of brain and various functions these brain will do in our normal day to day life. Also they were able to relate these concepts with the story we have taken up(Maharaj Parikshith). All the kids are asked to draw the types of brain on their hand and on paper for better understanding.The kids came up with a lot of question on the topic, which were brainstormed and understood by all the kids. Every kid shared their learning from the session.

   

 

~ R.Sivaraman and B.Saranya

This was a project about the  electromagnet and the working of the  electromagnetic field .To explain how the electric field is getting converted to electromagnetic field while given current flows through the copper wire.The project was done with the 7th grade students(Udavi) .

 

~Poovizhi, Abilash

Yesterday we had STEM land meeting with all the coordinators of different STEM land and STEM land math teachers. Sundar presented a scratch program for fraction. Later we were all given small booklets by Azim Premji University on each topic like Addition, subtraction, multiplication, measurement. It had different activities that could be done with children in learning the concept. We agreed to read the booklet and present what we learnt from it make a model of it and present it to others in the next session. For some time we all read our booklet in silence and took notes.

Then shared about cyclic number which he read from his book which was new and interesting for all of us. The cyclic number is the following

1/7 = 0.142857

142857 x 2 = 285714

142857 x 3 = 428571

142857 x 4 = 571428

142857 x 5 = 714285

142857 x 6 = 857142

142857 x 7 = 999999

And the other one was to find the pattern and come up with an equation

1 = 1

3+5 = 8

7+9+11 = 27

What is the pattern and will the next line be?

1       = 1       : 1^3

3+5       = 8      : 2^3

7+9+11      = 27   : 3^3

13+ 15+17+19  = 64   : 4^3

n(n-1)+1 is the equation

~Saranya, Arun

Most of the children who come to STEMland can solve 3×3 Rubik’s cube.

What’s next??

We now have bought 4×4 Rubik’s cube and this made a few of the students curious. Now 3 children from class 7, 8 and 9 can solve 4×4 cube. This only took them for about 3 weeks to figure out how to solve it.

Following is a video of a child (padmanaban) from 7th grade solving 4×4 cube. He solved it under 2 minutes.

~Arun, Pratap

Teachers and children from Creative school Bangalore visited Auroville mid-December 2019.

Some of our STEMland teachers had already visited this school last year for a Learning network conference (refer to our previous blog)

As part of their visit, they also visited Isaiambalam school. Children first introduced their names and different favorites like color, food animals, etc. It was fun for the children. Then children were divided into separate groups led by teachers of Creative school. Children did different activities like drawing, movements, etc.

 

~ Abilash.S

Solving Rubik’s cube has always been a challenge for me, and I was never interested in solving it. But few weeks ago I got the opportunity to learn the cube.  Though initially I didn’t  know how to solve it, I was able to learn to solve the cube after spending 4 to 5 hours. I was asked to take Rubik’s cube classes  for the 6th graders in Udavi School, so every Thursdays , I spend 40 minutes taking class for them during my lunch break.

The students of Deepanam and Last School were also interested in learning the Rubik’s cube, so a class was taken for them to solve it. During the session I was able to notice that the students were really patient, focused while solving the cube and were also helping each other, this made me feel accomplished and acknowledged.