Objective: In this final project I would like to give students the greatest latitude in selecting a project that would interest them. I would like to have a kind of science demonstration that allows the students to either show something or someone from the history or electronics. Final projects could be recreating a model of a electromagnet, or an electronic device such as a burglar alarm, or produce a lighted dollhouse or perhaps do diorama of a Ben Franklin or Samuel Morse, or A.G. Bell.
Materials: books for students to look through to get ideas, graphic organizer for them to use in planning their project, a variety of colored paper, markers, crayons, scrap materials, boxes, wires, etc. for students to use in making their projects.
Procedure:
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1. Students will have a choice as to what project they complete. They may do a model of some electronic device, diorama of some important event or purpose of some famous person in the history of electronics, or they may do demonstration of some principle of electronics. Students will have a chance to go to the Library Media center to preview books and resources to help them decide what they wish to do.
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2. Students will complete graphic organizer to outline what they are going to do.
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3. Students will meet with their teacher to discuss and complete or change their graphic organizer.
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4. Students will be given an opportunity during class to complete their projects.
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5. All students will write a short report telling about their projects, and what it shows.
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6. Students will present their projects to the class, parents and other school personnel during special program.