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  Everyone Can Learn Origami ! I used to find origami difficult and boring until I was assigned a duty to take my school kids for an origami workshop. As I tried my hands folding papers with students, I found myself amazed at how a simple thing such as paper can be transformed into amazing things. As I started following blogs and websites, trying origami myself, I find it comforting and meditative. In this project, I'm sharing one of the origami that I love. I tried my best to keep it simple and included a lot to picture for easy understanding. Also, I'll be breaking down each fold into steps, so it going to be a long post. Please feel free to comment if you get stuck. Let's start. Things We Need 8 different color origami papers(15x15 cms). 21 papers of each color. Paper Glue Making Units: (1/6) Start with a square sheet of paper. Fold it in half horizontally, crease it well sharpening it with a fingernail. Now, fold the paper in half vertically, crease it well and then unf...

I love Oreo and I love having them with my morning tea, strolling in the garden. I made this Oreo Holder so that it is easy for me to sip my tea as I walk around. This was part of my design thinking project that I also displayed at mt school annual day exhibition. When my friend told me about this contest, I knew what project I should enter. As we have been using Sketchup at my school, the only problem for me was to design this in Tinkercad. As determined as I'm, I signed up and started tinkering around in Tinkercad and after spending a few hours I was successful in making a simple holder. With some more patience and practice, my Oreo Holder was complete. Please let me guide you through How to build this Oreo Holder. Things We Need Computer with an Internet connection Tinkercad account or Login using Gmail account 3d printer and filaments(any color) Building Holder Start by searching the objects wanted(Coffee mug) in the Tinkercad's gallery. Then click on ''Copy and Tin...

Have you ever wondered, why we have an upset stomach after having spicy food? Or How antacids relieve us from heartburn, indigestion, or an upset stomach? Here is an easy experiment to find answers to these questions and have a closer look into the chemical reactions taking place inside our stomach during the process. Things We Need 2 beakers half-filled with water 1 round-bottom flask 3 petri dish Antacid(Powdered form) Spicy sause ph papes ph sca chart Molding clay and watercolor Hydrochloric acid(50ml) Ph Of Happy Stomach Mold a human digestive system(up to the stomach) with clay. Color and label it properly. Pour about 50 ml of Hydrochloric acid(HCL) into a round-bottom flask. Place it so that the neck of the flask resembles a part of the esophagus or food pipe and its rounded bottom resembles a part of the stomach. Pour some HCL from the stomach(round bottom flask) into a clean petri dish. Dip a ph paper into the solution in the petri dish. Note down the color and the correspondin...

  Once the kids at my school are done with paper circuits and basic 3D modeling, I use this project to gives them the chance to test their understanding of circuits and connections and using measurements and tools while designing on  SketchUp . This also makes origami fun and I feel that this makes kids become more interested in learning origami. Let's learn to fold Pyramid and Pikachu origami. and then use a paper circuit to glow it with LEDs. Things We Need For Pyramid Lamp: Butter paper. A4 size For Pikachu Lamp: Origami paper. 15cms*15cms Ice cream sticks or 3d printer(Optional) LED (Yellow and Red) Copper Tape Coin cell battery Marker/Sketch pen. Red and Black Origami Pyramid 1) Fold the butter paper in half vertically. Sharpen the crease with your fingernail and unfold it. 2) Flip the paper and fold the paper in half horizontally. Sharpen the crease and unfold. At this step, you notice that horizontal crease is folded inside like a valley( Valley Fold ) and Vertical crea...

  In this STEM activity, students will learn about tension as a force and how it acts on structural components through a hands-on group design problem. Through this activity, the students are excepted to learn about force and tension and their balancing. When the ends of the thread are tied to the pencil and the nail, a tension will be created on the string and as a result, the pencil cannot fall on the side opposite to the nail where it is tied. But, still, it can fall on the remaining three sides. So, now if we tie a thread to these remaining three sides, the force or tension created by the threads will be balanced and pencil will be able to stand upright. For their final task students will be instructed to balance a pencil upright with the help of the given materials. Sample video of the final task:  https://youtu.be/IlnkYlTOlb8 Objective : Introducing Class 4 & 5 students to the concept of Tension force. The Tug of War Students will be taken to the field for a three-ro...

Many of us love dice. We love to chuck them on the table, sometimes so hard that it rolls off onto the floor. Dice are the heart of almost all the board games and in this project, I tried it to make even more fun. I'm in grade 6 and as a part of my curriculum, I recently completed the basics of Tinkercad. I made this Dice in  3D Design  as part of my assignment and after that, I tried to push myself by recreating this using  Codeblocks . In this project, I'll walk you through how I created this Noisy Dice using Tinkercad Codeblocks . Things We Need   A Computer Tinkercad account 3D printer(Optional) Creating New Codeblocks Project Log into your Tinkercad account, and select  Codeblocks  from the toolbar on the left. Then select  Create New Codeblock . A new window will pop up. In the new window, select  New Design .  Making Cube Hollow For this Noisy Dice, we will first make a hollow cube. For this: Select the  Box block  from the...