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Doing Science activities with bare basics

This project, nicknamed SEE-SAW, is meant to provide opportunities for any student in any school to do science. Even for schools in the poor...

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Paper airplane lesson in Kenya

One of our Physics lessons has to do with paper airplanes. These are fun and a good inquiry lesson for students of just about every age. Recently, a version of it was used by Koen Timmers at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya, where some 190,000 registered refugees live. Koen opened new school buildings and wanted to do a STEM lesson, but had almost no materials with which to work. He turned to SEE SAW and had a successful lesson with about 200 students. Check out the blog on this activity!

https://twitter.com/zelfstudie/status/1232346168493039616

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Maths Lessons for EducAid Math Fair

We were so fortunate to have an Evanston alum and math wizard, Anna Pierrehumbert, get in touch with us because she was interested in this project and model for helping others learn mathematics topics. She wrote a number of math lessons that involved collaborative work and active learning of math.

The following lessons can be viewed and used:
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Graphing: Matching graphs game
- Graphing 
- Statistics
- Trigonometry: Instructions for making clinometer for trigonometry lesson
- Trigonometry
- Vectors and transformations cards needed for the lesson below
- Vectors and transformations

These lessons were used in Sierra Leone for the EducAid Math Fair!!