K12 TIES Team Handson science for kids Second Quarter Update

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K-12 TIES TeamHands-on science for kidsSecond
Quarter Update

• Alenoush Aghazarian
• Arwa Kassamali
• Chang Tiffany Liu
• Elisabet Runarsdottir
• Jessica Kim
• Jon Bergmann Heimisson
• Meghdi Babakhanlou
• Sona Sarian
• Vince Kapur
• Steve Buckley
• Julie Humphrey
• Silvia Mah

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Community Clients Services

• Clients
• K-12 Teachers in various schools in the San Diego
  area.
• Services
• Supply them with hands on activities and
  integrated lesson plans.
• Expose students to engineering at a young age.
• Interact and network with teachers and students
  by sharing personal and academic experiences.

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Current Project

• Second Quarter for K-12 Project
• Designing experiments to teach students about
  energy, its generation and daily usage.
• Solar energy
• Chemical energy
• Mechanical energy
• Hydro / electric energy
• Wind energy

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Progress from Last Quarter

• Team has grown from 6 to 9 members
• Rely on our experience visiting K-12 classrooms
  last quarter to design kid-friendly engineering
  activities.
• Plan for 2006
• Winter Design and refine integrated lesson plans
• Spring-Fall Deliver lessons to clients

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Enriching the Classroom Environment

• Kids and teachers should learn that engineering
  can be made easy and fun in a classroom.
• Energy is a difficult to teach conceptually
• Exciting visual and hands-on demonstrations help
  children understand difficult concepts.
• Kids can learn to become engineers by simple
  experiments.
• Lighting lightbulbs with hamsters.
• Charge batteries with solarcells.
• Discover how much energy is in food.

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