I took a trip down to Elizabeth IN the other day to work with a group of JH kids and a set of HS kids.
The 20 JH kids were not a “class”, but an RTI enrichment group. They meet and do a variety of learning activities. We did some electricity. They had LED’s and a battery to start with and worked on lighting 1, then as many as they could. Then they did paper circuits (copper tape, battery, bulb) with their own drawings.
The 10 Biology 2 students were asked to make a model of a virus. They were just starting this topic, so a good time to get the “parts of a virus” and talk about how they function as they created them. I bought some 80 mm bath bomb molds (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AIY1RKY ) for them to make their virus. They utilized a variety of craft materials for the parts (jewelry beads, buttons, pipe cleaners, thin foam, straws, string/yarn). Some painted the shell. They had fun and we had some good conversations about what they had just learned (bacteria) and starting to learn.
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