Individual / Graduation Project
2018.02-2019.02
This is a STEM teaching material. The purpose is to help technology teachers to teach more efficiently while encourage students to learn relevant knowledge.
Individual / Graduation Project
2018.02-2019.02
This is a STEM teaching material. The purpose is to help technology teachers to teach more efficiently while encourage students to learn relevant knowledge.
According to Taiwan’s curriculum guidelines of basic education in technology field, students have to be able of integrating knowledge of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) in practical projects while using the ability of computational thinking and information technology. To achieve the learning objective, it’s not easy for technology teachers to prepare teaching materials.
Space capacity is important in developing expertise in STEM (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009). It is possible to enhance students’ space capacity by acquired training (Wanzel, 2002).
Through considering four aspects: Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction while designing teaching materials, teachers can more efficiently arouse students’ learning motivation and increase their learning effects (J.Keller, 1983).
A robotic arm that students can assemble by themselves. Through assembling, circuit, and coding, they can learn the knowledge and application of STEM.
Attract students’ attention by the controllability and entertainment of robotic arm and claw machine.
Due to the development of industrialization and automation, there are more and more applications of robotic arms. It is relevant to our daily life.
Get confidence at first by assembling 3D puzzle structure and following the example of circuit and program, then learn more about different parts of the teaching material.
Get internal confidence and external prize when complete the task with proper difficulty. They feel satisfied with their learning.
This was a creative robotic arm competition. We designed the process and rules to let high school students able to participate the competition after learning relevant knowledge and skills. We only provided participants basic kit of robotic arm, they needed to assemble, modify, and code by themselves to finish the task and tried to get the highest scores. It’s hard to get high score with basic materials, so if they wanted to win, they had to design and build their own robotic arm.
