Engineering Placemats

https://sites.tufts.edu/pebl/2023/08/30/low-cost-engineering-activity-placemats/

Tufts CEEO team designed these student-facing activity cards that are meant to be printed double-sided and laminated like placemats. Each placemat gives the student an engaging design challenge that can be completed using low-cost materials like paper, cardboard, and craft materials. The placemats pair well with the Constructopedia, the guide for building mechanisms that can otherwise be tricky for students.

Circuit Activity Placemats
https://sites.tufts.edu/pebl/2023/09/08/circuits/

Tufts CEEO team designed these student-facing activity cards that are meant to be printed double-sided and laminated like placemats. Some placements teach students the basic circuitry of motors, switches, and lights. Other placemats challenge students to design something that uses circuitry.

PEBL Toolkit
https://sites.tufts.edu/pebl/2023/02/24/karkhana-samuha-pebl-toolkit/

The PEBL Toolkit is an open source resource to bring playful engineering based learning to your classrooms and your homes. The toolkit aims to turn your classrooms and homes into playgrounds for exploration. Each of the 10 activities available in PEBL Toolkit is focused on creating a student-directed hands-on playful learning experience using engineering, scientific and mathematical concepts. These activities are designed to create joyful, actively engaging, meaningful, socially interactive and iterative experiences for students.

Constructopedia V2.0

 September 28, 2023  Lynne Ramsey  0 Comments

Many engineering challenges can be completed using low-cost materials like common craft supplies and recyclables – like cereal boxes and toilet paper tubes. However, students can often struggle to assemble the pieces. They might spend so much time trying to attach wheels that they don’t have time to build the car they had planned. As a result, a team of Tufts CEEO students put together a student-facing Constructopedia with building instructions for common mechanisms – like pulleys, hinges, and wheels – from common craft materials and recyclables. Version 2.0 is now available by filling out the form below. You can download the PDF or get a link to the Google Slides, which include animated GIFs.