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What to show/let do with a 4 1/2 year old in the lab?
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: Messtechniker on August 12, 2020, 05:13:01 pm ---Bare in mind that I am probably the worst teacher on the plant. Incapable of teaching a 9 year old the small multiplication tables.... :palm: An experience I'll never forget. Maximum fail.
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Some people are innate teachers, others are not; there is nothing fail about it.
Thing is, there is no need to treat this as a teaching opportunity at all. Let him observe and experiment; be a safety supervisor, not a teacher!
I wasn't much older when I started my woodworking hobby: one of my first ones was a hedgehog, having hammered a couple of hundred 4" nails about 1" deep into a small log. :P (Fortunately, they were "reclaimed" nails from concrete moulding timbers, unreusable parts burned and me collected the nails from the ashes.)
Sometimes kids like to watch, sometimes to do; ask and listen. Talk to them like they were your colleagues (but omit jargon, and explain words and terms when they don't follow), and you have a friend for life. Probably make another engineer or scientist, though. ;D
duckduck:
--- Quote from: Messtechniker on August 12, 2020, 05:13:01 pm ---But what next?
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Things that make light and sound that are interactive -- a pot that controls frequency, a switch that turns on and off or selects lo/hi or color. Have it pre-built and then adjust and modify when kids drop by.
coppice:
A 4.5 year old's little hands should be great for fine soldering......... In fact any high volume production work involving small parts.
Messtechniker:
Thanks for the hints. :-+
Next time he will come round, I'll simply
wait as to what his interests might be and
then go on from there.
Will report in due time. Might be a while though.
duckduck:
--- Quote from: Kasper on August 14, 2020, 12:31:44 am ---I think a function generator, a speaker and an oscilloscope are a fun combo.
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Jr. enjoyed hearing the signal generator and the permutations of frequency, volume, and sine/square. I didn't think to hook it up to the o-scope. I'll have to give that a shot next time.
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