1 / 8

Resources for E4K Activities

Resources for E4K Activities. Matt Ford – BEAM President. Planning your activity. Choose a project. Play to your members’ strengths Challenges are good (but competitions take time). b eam.berkeley.edu/resources/e4k. h owtosmile.org. Identify the main point.

alaqua
Download Presentation

Resources for E4K Activities

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Resources for E4K Activities Matt Ford – BEAM President

  2. Planning your activity

  3. Choose a project • Play to your members’ strengths • Challenges are good (but competitions take time) beam.berkeley.edu/resources/e4k howtosmile.org

  4. Identify the main point Do identify one or two main concepts Do give a brief introduction to applications Do NOT “lecture” Do NOT teach theory that cannot be applied

  5. Select Materials

  6. Address Safety • Use common sense • Supervise kids • Do not divide your attention Blowing up water bottles with dry ice Common Sense

  7. Running the activity • Assign one person to lead a short opening discussion • Ask questions to make connections 5 min • Divide kids into teams (let them self-organize) • Onevolunteer to each group (wear name tags) 20 min • Competition (if applicable) • “Interview” kids about their projects 5 min

  8. General tips • Use a countdown to get kids’ attention • Do not let one kid dominate group discussion • Avoid rhetorical questions with no answers • Save the teaching for the build phase • Encourage prototyping • Have Fun!

More Related