Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids
With the Tinkering Labs Electric Motors Catalyst, your students can create their own inventions using
real wood, real hardware, and real motors. They will learn STEM through project
based design challenges that allow them to wonder, test, invent (and yes,
play!) while learning important physical science and engineering core ideas, such
as force, motion, electricity and energy. The Tinkering Labs STEM curriculum
was designed for grades K-5 by a team led by Gever Tulley, founder of
the award-winning, independent Brightworks School in San Francisco. This hands-on
workshop challenges participants to make a device that can scramble an
egg using motors, wheels, wires and other equipment. This activity is one of 10
engineering design challenges in the Electric Motors Catalyst, a STEM curriculum for
grades K-5 that comes complete with equipment, lesson plans, assessments, embedded support
for ELA, and is fully aligned to NGSS. The program is
distributed exclusively by Lab-Aids. Lesson samples and literature will be
distributed.
TAKEAWAYS:
A project based design challenge that allows participants to wonder, test, invent (and yes, play!) while learning important physical science and engineering core ideas, such as force, motion, electricity and energy.