England Pinhole Camera STEM Challenge - Engineering Design

lesson overview

England STEM Challenge - Engineering Design with Digital Journals

Take your students on an educational journey to England with this STEM lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the innovation of the light bulb in England which led to the use of light bulbs in homes and theaters. Students will learn about light refraction and camera obscure as the foundation of how optics work like our eyes and a camera. Then students will complete an engineering design challenge to build a pinhole camera to project an image on their pinhole image screen. Related math problems extend the learning fun!

As with many STEM activities that are student-driven, this challenge can be tailored to students of various skill levels and abilities.

Included in this product:

• Detailed teachers guide with links to resources

• Grading rubric for the engineering design process

• Editable digital and printed STEM journals in Google Slides for the engineering challenge

• History connection: Explore famous England landmarks

• Science connection: camera obscura

• Real-world connection: Invention of the light bulb

• STEM Career Connections: photographer and optical engineer

• Icebreaker activity instructions and activity handouts

• Student handouts to guide them through the engineering design process

• Math extension problems

Required Materials for Challenge:

• shoe box, or cardboard to build a box

• wax paper

• masking tape

• aluminum foil

• construction paper

• rubber bands

• craft sticks

• wooden clothespins

• toilet paper tubes

• card stock

• thumbtack to make pinhole

• dark room or blackout fabric

• bright light

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