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Scienceguide Vol7 PDF
Scienceguide Vol7 PDF
Activity &
Video Series
Volume 7:
LASER Edition
Includes detailed project steps, explanations and key concepts, tips
& tricks, and access to instructional videos.
Designed by real scientists for our future generation.
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“Imagination is more
important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to
all we now know and
understand, while
imagination embraces the
entire world, and all there
ever will be to know and
understand."
~Albert Einstein
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FLUORESCENCE
Activity Let’s do an experiment
first, and then we’ll go
If you’ve ever wondered how over why it does what it
glow in the dark toys stay does. Here’s what you do:
bright even in the dark, this
activity is just for you! 1. Point your laser at the
wall, making a bright
Materials green dot. (Red lasers
won’t work with this
Laser (green) experiment.)
Into Action to help us figure this out calculates how big the wings
(short of a live demo, need to be to carry more
video is incredibly powerful weight and then tries his
Step one: Get kids for learning). model with bigger wings. (By
genuinely interested and the way, I got a video on
excited about a topic. My son is incredibly model planes so I could
excited at this point about understand this well enough
Start by deciding what
anything that has to do to work with him on it).
topic you want your kids
with airplanes and flying.
to learn. Then, you’re
He’s sure he wants to be a Then we move on to the
going to get them really
pilot someday and is geometry used in navigation.
interested in it.
already wanting flying Instead of drawing angles on
lessons (he’s only 10 a blank sheet of paper, our
For example, suppose I
now). workspace is made of airplane
want my 10-year old son
maps.
to learn about
aerodynamics. I’ll arrange
Step three: Teach the
supporting academics and We’re actually planning part of
for him to go up in a small
theory. the next flight my son and my
plane with a friend who is
pilot buddy will take. Suddenly
a pilot. This is the kind of Now it’s time to introduce
angles are a lot more
experience that will really academics. Honestly, I
interesting. In fact, it turns
excite him. have my pick of so many
out that we need a bit of
topics, because flying
trigonometry to figure out
includes so many different
Step two: Give them fields. I mean he’s using
some things.
hands-on activities and
angles and math in flight
experiments to make the Of course, a 10-year old
planning, mechanics and
topic meaningful. can’t do trigonometry,
energy in how the engine
right? Wrong! He has no idea
works, electricity in all the
that it’s usually for high school
This is where I take that equipment on board the
and learns about cosines and
excitement and let him plane, and of course,
tangents.
explore it. I have him ask aerodynamics in keeping
my friend for other the plane in the air (to
Throughout this, I’m giving
chances to go flying. I’ll name just a few).
him chances to get together
also have my friend show
with my pilot friend, share
him how he plans for a I’m going to use this as
what he’s learned, and even
flight. My son will learn the foundation to teach
use it on real flights. How
about navigation, figuring the academic side of all
cool is that to a kid?!
out how much fuel is the topics that are
needed for the flight, how appropriate.
the weight the plane
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You get the idea. The After this, consider how you
key is to focus on building can implement the three key
interest and excitement steps we just talked about.
first, then the academics Either go through the steps
are easy to get a kid to yourself, or use a program
learn. that does this for you.
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