Project Ideas

These project ideas provide inspiration for teaching biology, chemistry, physics, and math through making. They were created by college students at Tufts University.

Physics in Scratch

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Model Gravity, Force, and Acceleration using Scratch, an online visual programming environment. The final project can be seen here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/94278072/  A great resource for getting started with Scratch that is available [ ]

LED Neurons

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Program LEDs with the Arduino to represent biological processes. Learn basic logic and syntax of coding, and how to make that code interact with circuits of lights, resistors, and photovoltaic [ ]

Arduino Arcade

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Have students build a simple arcade-style game using Arduino, breadboard, resistors, LEDs, buttons, sensors, and any other electronics materials available. Students should code some program to help keep score or [ ]

Origami Geometry

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 Use congruency, trigonometry, and proofs to calculate the surface area of your origami creations! For more ideas, see: Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding, T. Sundara Row Project Origami, Thomas Hull [ ]

PERIODIC TABLE CARD GAME

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According to many students, introductory chemistry is difficult because they don’t understand the fundamental chemistry concepts. This project aims to come up with an interesting way for students to memorize [ ]

Food Web Tile Game

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 In this project, we designed an interactive boardgame for students to familiarize themselves with concepts of food chains, food webs, and tropic pyramids. Trang Ngo & Will Luna, Tufts University [ ]

Stages of Mitosis.

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For this project, we were tasked with creating a visual representation of a biological process using the equipment available in the lab.   After a brainstorming session, we decided to [ ]

Cell Analogy

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The goal of this project is to make an analogy of a cell to some real-world object or location, and then construct a model of the real-world object. Students should [ ]