iImages
iImages
The images above help with visualizing the focus of my big idea for my ImagineIT project, which focuses on making chemistry more accessible and engaging for all students by connecting concepts to their everyday life. Each of these images shows a different science concept, one with a focus on physics, one on chemistry, and one on biology (though they could all tie back to chemistry). Projectile motion can be connected to shooting a basketball, the components of a cell phone and why they are chosen deals with the chemistry of those materials, and improvements in technologies that utilize the electromagnetic spectrum can change the way we look at biology and the medical field. All of these images were taken at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
The images above help with visualizing the focus of my big idea for my ImagineIT project, which focuses on making chemistry more accessible and engaging for all students by connecting concepts to their everyday life. Each of these images shows a different science concept, one with a focus on physics, one on chemistry, and one on biology (though they could all tie back to chemistry). Projectile motion can be connected to shooting a basketball, the components of a cell phone and why they are chosen deals with the chemistry of those materials, and improvements in technologies that utilize the electromagnetic spectrum can change the way we look at biology and the medical field. All of these images were taken at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
iVideo
iVideo
This video helps to introduce and visualize my big idea for the ImagineIT project. My goal is to make chemistry accessible, engaging, and applicable to everyday life. I want to show students that chemistry is not just studying a funny shaped chart with a bunch of letters, and building ball and stick models of objects they have never seen. Chemistry explains nearly every experience we have in our lives, and understanding it allows us to utilize these phenomena in new ways. Why do we use specific substances for cell phone screens? Batteries? How do we make fireworks different colors and why does this happen? How can understanding the chemistry of cooking food allow us to create newer, more nutritious foods that allow our body to work most efficiently?
The ideas presented in the video came very easily to me, since they are all representing everyday experiences. I could have chosen almost any topic and the video clip could be connected back to chemistry. I used the YouTube video editor to create this video and it was a very easy, intuitive tool to use for this purpose. Before starting, I watched a ten minute video that quickly ran through the features of the editor, which helped immensely. I highly recommend checking out the YouTube editor!
This video helps to introduce and visualize my big idea for the ImagineIT project. My goal is to make chemistry accessible, engaging, and applicable to everyday life. I want to show students that chemistry is not just studying a funny shaped chart with a bunch of letters, and building ball and stick models of objects they have never seen. Chemistry explains nearly every experience we have in our lives, and understanding it allows us to utilize these phenomena in new ways. Why do we use specific substances for cell phone screens? Batteries? How do we make fireworks different colors and why does this happen? How can understanding the chemistry of cooking food allow us to create newer, more nutritious foods that allow our body to work most efficiently?
The ideas presented in the video came very easily to me, since they are all representing everyday experiences. I could have chosen almost any topic and the video clip could be connected back to chemistry. I used the YouTube video editor to create this video and it was a very easy, intuitive tool to use for this purpose. Before starting, I watched a ten minute video that quickly ran through the features of the editor, which helped immensely. I highly recommend checking out the YouTube editor!