Category: Lessons & Resources

This is a soldering project I developed for CREOL’s summer camp. I find that giving students projects to build that they feel an innate ownership over is a really powerful tool for teaching. By integrating a circuit and name badge they get to show off their work everywhere they go during the camp. The design…

Motivation Newtonian telescopes are the simplest of mirrored telescopes, and are the perfect project for teaching magnification, mirrors vs. lenses, and astronomy concepts. Typically these telescopes have a price floor of about $80, check out my personal build. However that isn’t realistic for a class of 20 students. So I made the Oat-a-Scope! A Newtonian…