Flying Disc
Skills Enhanced
1. Creative Thinking
Innovative Design: Students will engage in designing their own periscopes, fostering creativity in both aesthetics and utility.
Problem Solving: As they encounter challenges in construction, they'll develop strategies to overcome obstacles, enhancing their imaginative thinking.
Innovative Design: Students will engage in designing their own periscopes, fostering creativity in both aesthetics and utility.
Problem Solving: As they encounter challenges in construction, they'll develop strategies to overcome obstacles, enhancing their imaginative thinking.
2. Technical Skills
Hands-on Assembly: The DIY nature of the Eye Spy Periscope allows students to learn about different components and how they fit together, enhancing their manual dexterity.
Understanding Optics: By building the periscope, students gain fundamental knowledge of light and reflection, laying the groundwork for further exploration in physics.
Hands-on Assembly: The DIY nature of the Eye Spy Periscope allows students to learn about different components and how they fit together, enhancing their manual dexterity.
Understanding Optics: By building the periscope, students gain fundamental knowledge of light and reflection, laying the groundwork for further exploration in physics.
3. Critical Thinking
Analytical Observation: Students will learn to analyze angles and light paths to ensure their periscope functions properly, sharpening their critical thinking abilities.
Experimentation: The opportunity to test and iterate their designs fosters a mindset of inquiry and evaluation, essential skills for future STEM challenges.
Analytical Observation: Students will learn to analyze angles and light paths to ensure their periscope functions properly, sharpening their critical thinking abilities.
Experimentation: The opportunity to test and iterate their designs fosters a mindset of inquiry and evaluation, essential skills for future STEM challenges.
4. Collaboration
Team Projects: Encouraging students to build and explore periscopes in teams promotes skills in collaboration and communication.
Peer Feedback: Working together on this project allows students to share insights and feedback, developing their interpersonal skills vital for group work in all fields.
Team Projects: Encouraging students to build and explore periscopes in teams promotes skills in collaboration and communication.
Peer Feedback: Working together on this project allows students to share insights and feedback, developing their interpersonal skills vital for group work in all fields.
5. Spatial Awarness
3D Thinking: They will enhance their spatial reasoning skills by visualizing how the periscope works and how to manipulate it in space.
Navigation Skills: Using the periscope to observe distant objects sharpens their ability to relate physical dimensions and distances, crucial for various scientific fields.
3D Thinking: They will enhance their spatial reasoning skills by visualizing how the periscope works and how to manipulate it in space.
Navigation Skills: Using the periscope to observe distant objects sharpens their ability to relate physical dimensions and distances, crucial for various scientific fields.
