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Week 12

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!

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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.

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Week 10

This week, I continued working on the Build-A-Drone lesson plan and began working on a Physics Behind Flight lesson plan.

CONTINUING TO WORK ON THE BUILD-A-DRONE LESSON PLAN

During our meeting last week, my mentor suggested adding a section to the Build-A-Drone lesson plan that shows some examples of jobs that drones can do, as well as what kinds of technologies (such as sensors and cameras) they use to do those jobs. This is to provide students with some real-life examples of drones being used to solve problems and the kinds of technologies that drones can use, which can give them inspiration for the drones that they make later during the workshop. After adding this content to the English version of the student packet, I also translated it and added it to the Spanish version of the student packet.

BEGINNING TO WORK ON A PHYSICS BEHIND FLIGHT LESSON PLAN

This week, I also began working on a lesson plan on the Physics Behind Flight. I started working on the lesson plan, and I also started working on a student worksheet. In this lesson plan, students get to learn about some of the physics that allow aircraft to fly. Afterwards, they get to decorate their own balsa gliders or paper airplanes that they can fly. I was able to get started on the lesson plan document and make progress on the student worksheet.

GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK

Next week, I would like to continue working on the Physics Behind Flight lesson plan. I still need to add the education standards to the lesson plan, add extra notes for instructors, and finish the worksheet. I would also like to translate the worksheet into Spanish.

In addition, during this coming week, I plan to work on submitting my registration for the Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence (CUE) Showcase so that I can present what I have been working on during this URSA Engage project in May 2022.

I will also meet with my mentor again next week. During the meeting, I would like to share the progress that I have made on both lesson plans. I would especially like to talk to my mentor about the Physics Behind Flight lesson plan. I did my best to research the topics (aerodynamic forces and principal axes), but since I do not have much background knowledge in physics, I would like to double-check that the information that I put on the worksheet is correct. I would also like to ask for some feedback from my mentor on how the worksheet looks so far.