releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes. Snake Egg Incubator NGSS - Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.

The Chemistry … get the Temperature between 28-320C

Trial and Error

Achieve correct amount of inflation … CO2 from the reaction

Protect the egg while in transport.

Or not ...

Insulation Stabilization Protection

Success!

“ I liked this project because we were set off in our groups and the teacher didn’t talk a lot. We got to make our own design instead of everyone having similar designs and following step by step directions.” RV

There was a lot of freedom and more room to make mistakes but “ I liked this project because we had more control over the decisions made. Also, we had to try and figure it out by ourselves. There was a lot of freedom and more room to make mistakes but to learn from them too” OH

“It was really cool learning from our mistakes, especially when ours exploded. Please keep doing this!” SG

“Doing these projects allows kids to share more and participate.”AH

“Doing this made me notice things like that I am more of a leader-type” AD

“You don’t tell us the answer, you make us figure it out.” SB

“I don’t like the step by step thing “I don’t like the step by step thing. It annoys me as it doesn’t make you stop and think about your next step, you just have everything right in front of you.”ES

“Instead of following directions on a lab or piece of paper, I felt like a real scientist figuring out a chemical reaction. This project was like a puzzle or math problem i had to figure out with all those factors.” SW

“It does a good job simulating a workplace scenario.” CM

“... made students feel accomplished inside.” ET

Building their own windmills using borrowed UNH Tech camp kits

Troubleshooting

Working together to manipulate variables

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” ALbert Einstein