Smarter Together - Simple Machines To Innovate Medical Tech!
My students need simple machine models to help understand concepts, materials to help build simple machines such as pails, rope, chipboard and pulleys, and model wheelchairs to simulate.
Do you remember those fun science experiments in grade school? Can you imagine the look on a child's face using their mind as inquiry in classroom? The child who struggles in reading but is an inventor? Help me make this child's dream come true. Who knows? They might be the next important inventor!
My classroom is a fun and structured classroom with learners who come from many various backgrounds.
I am lucky enough to have many students who speak different languages at home. We have had so much fun together learning each others' culture. But hands-on experiences are what these students need! Many of these students' parents struggle to even pay the bills but that doesn't show in my classroom. Each student comes to my classroom ready to learn. Science materials are very scarce in classrooms nowadays, but fortunately, students are more interested in science more than ever before. My students from other cultures think that science is amazing! Many are truly interested in becoming scientists to cure cancer or to find a way for a mom to be able to walk again someday. My students are inventors ready to invent!
My Project
How can simple machines change the lives of those who are disabled? The students in my class will become inventors. They will use the models of simple machines and the books to understand what a simple machine is. They will use this information to then find a way to use simple machines to help those who are disabled. Using timers, they will see which are most accurate. Students rarely get to use a hands-on approach to may be use in the future. Innovating medical technology with the use of simple machines is as easy as allowing eleven year old minds to mold our future.
Students will be able to have materials they need to allow their brains to explore without the limit of materials such as rope, pulleys, pails and chipboard.
We have twenty-four to twenty-five students in my class at a time and very limited supplies. My goal is for students to not only understand how hard it is for some people to live, but for students to find a new appreciation for inventing with simple machines to help those who are coming home from war, born disabled or had a crippling accident that left them in a wheelchair.
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