This week, I finished and submitted my research poster for the Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence (CUE) Showcase, continued working on the Physics Behind Flight lesson plan, and reached out to Professor Sharon Sánchez-Aragón to review the drone workshop lesson plans that I have been working on.
RESEARCH POSTER FOR CUE
I finished my research poster this week, and I included it in this blog post. Last week, I received helpful feedback from my mentor Victor Villegas on ways to improve my writing and to make it look nicer on the poster. I also added some QR codes to the poster for each of the lesson plans. I am excited to present my research at CUE later this month!
CONTINUING TO WORK ON THE PHYSICS BEHIND FLIGHT LESSON PLAN
This week, I also continued to work on the student handout for the Physics Behind Flight lesson plan. My mentor asked me to add some more information about Newton’s Laws of Motion, Bernoulli’s Principle, and the gyro effect so that students can learn about the physics behind how drones fly in a bit more detail. I would like to show the updated student handout to my mentor again next week to see what else I can do to improve.
GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK
This week, I also contacted Professor Sharon Sánchez-Aragón to review the lesson plans I have been working on. Professor Sánchez-Aragón is an instructor for students in the English as a second language (ESOL) and Dual Language Programs at Oregon State University. She also has background in bilingual teaching for English and Spanish. I would like to ask her if she would be willing to provide feedback on the lesson plans, especially the Spanish versions of the student materials, since my Spanish proficiency is elementary.
In addition to this, I plan to continue making revisions to the Physics Behind Flight student handout. Once I have finished, I would like to translate it into Spanish and then create the plan for this lesson.
