Good morning!,
This week has been filled with learning new equipment! I have learned how to use a sonication machine, UV ozone chamber, a vacuum machine for plating metals, and a drop shape analyzer. I have also began formulating my lesson plan and writing my abstract. The abstract is particularly difficult to write since it is usually the last thing that you write; it comes off as more of an introduction than an actual abstract. We are also learning tinkercad for developing 3D images for publications and posters. I am hoping to learn it for 3D printing to incorporate it into my lesson plan. Here are some photos of the equipment I learned:
Sonication machine
Drop shape analyzer
Vacuum Machine
UV ozone chamber
You have been very busy! Great opportunity to spend so much time in the lab so soon. I’m struggling with how to come up with relevant, yet scaled down (realistic) lesson plan.
A lot of cool machines. You are going to have to teach me tinkercad when you learn it. I need to learn 3-D printing too.
You have been very busy! Out of curiosity being in the first week of the RET how have you figured out what your lesson plan will be on? I feel like I have ideas slowly coming and going but nothing solid towards a lesson within this first week. You’ve been very busy whereas I have spent most of my time on research articles and recording data from images. 😀
Well I am REALLY lucky that I have a physics teacher boyfriend. He and I have been discussing the lesson plan since May. I knew that since I was in NEWT that I would be working with water quality. I also completed the Nanotechnology Environmental Engineering for Teachers with Rice so I have some background in the NEWT program already. When Christina mentioned a 3D printer that really sent of a ding in my head. My students are socioeconomically disadvantaged and will probably never see a 3D printer; and our engineering teacher is below subpar. In addition, I spend almost all of my 3rd 9 weeks on water so I have a NASA water filtration lab already that I modifying.
That’s so cool! Out of all the machines you learned, which ones will you be using?
Currently I am allowed to use the Drop analyzer and the sonication machine on my own. Quite a few of the machines I will never be allowed to touch, such as the XPS (xray photoelectron spectrometer). Which is okay because I really dont want to break machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.