Construct a house with a power source. Connect positive and negative test bars with contact points and switches for you to test different configurations of incandescent and LED lights. Test them.
Understand series and parallel circuits. Test them. Rearrange them. Test again.
Then experiment with other challenges.... Lessons in electricity and thinking.
Each living thing goes through stages of development. Construct a small theater with scenes that change to present the growth cycle of plants or animals. We offer materials to study typically pumpkins or butterflies. With a design flexible enough for teachers and students to go back to their classes and present another life cycle on the reverse side of each stage block.
Themes
Anatomy
Simple Machines
Design Engineering
Robotics
Evolution
With modular wooden pieces, wire and rubber bands, construct a hand with fingers. The parts will work in a dozen basic configurations.
Test your design
Retrieve a lifesaver, a penny, a marble from a cup. Pick up a marker and draw. Pop a balloon. Propose your own challenge. Invent games two hands can play.
Understand electricity through the same experiments that early scientists used. Wind a coil of wire. Suspend a bar magnet in it. Charge the coil with a battery to spin the magnet. Test polarity. Discover the origins of motors and Morse Code.
Build a remarkable drawing machine from 1913 adapted by Senior Apprentice Angus Macmullen and Educator Josh Revkin. Since their first adaptation, it's been revised at least 5 more times. We will teach you some ways to program it. Then you will go on to invent your own programs. The possibilities are infinite. Add color and shadows.
Models organize big ideas for scientists and students; they identify and test questions and are ideal tools for thinking. The Earth/Moon Rotation orrery shows our planetary movement around the sun and demonstrates lunar orbit and moon phases when illuminated with an accompanying light.
Ahoy There Matey!
Build a three-masted Pirate Ship with poop deck, cannons, sails and a Crow's Nest for a lookout. Fly the Jolly Roger.
Rule the seas!
Minecraft presents some complex engineering challenges.
Log in to our Minecraft: Education Edition world to help create an automated mega-farm. Work together to create the perfect layout and assign tasks. Learn how chemistry can be used to create fertilizer for our crops, and how to design electronic machines to automatically plant and harvest. Build a barn and other nearby buildings to support the farm, and create a sustainable system that can generate goods.
Experience with Minecraft is not required, but preferable.
Sometimes hiding information is a battle. Sometimes it is a game.
This is a game.
Learn the basics of ciphers, or codes: how they can hide secrets, and how those secrets can be revealed. Practice your hacking and decryption skills by tackling a series of challenges to uncover a conspiracy. Build your own Wadsworth cipher machine, and learn the basics of SSH to access remote servers. Then, work together to outsmart your peers. Join one of two teams to create your own codes, and to intercept and decipher the other's.
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