When the pandemic hit I was really unsure how my classes were going to proceed. How was I going to take something as interactive as STEM challenges and move them to an online setting? After about seven months of trial and error I have finally reached a where teaching electronics is possible.
Teaching electronics for beginners is a very fun way to make STEM challenges advance, interactive and creative.
There are so many reasons why STEM challenges should incorporate electronics for beginners. When teaching electronics for kids children get to learn how all their devices work from the inside out. Teaching electronics for beginners turns students into creators over consumers. During the month of February and March I was able to incorporate electronics into our STEM challenges.
The learning curve in the beginning was tricky. It was a very new way of learning, there was a lot of vocabulary to learn, there was only a short amount of time. Things did not also work and sometimes it was tricky for those little hands to get a hang of how to manipulate the materials.
But now, after three weeks into the electronics for beginners STEM challenge unit, we are moving and grooving.
I used a low cost kit based here in India, Kit 4 Curious. The kit is great for teaching electronics to kids because it has everything needed to do simple activities. The best part about the kit is it does not require much soldering. Many of the tutorials they have posted require a hot glue gun. I tried to keep the STEM activities and STEM challenges simply enough to require minimal material and still be open ended.