{"id":427,"date":"2009-07-31T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/class-projects-with-cheap-materials"},"modified":"2009-07-31T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T22:26:01","slug":"class-projects-with-cheap-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2009\/07\/class-projects-with-cheap-materials.html","title":{"rendered":"Class Projects with Cheap Materials."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<strong>&#0160;This year&#0160;I might also be in the classroom along with a licensed teacher in a test project that will bring in volunteers with&#0160;their own&#0160;areas of expertise, to teach in certain schools.&#0160; This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> being tried&#0160;out to replace any of our great&#0160;teachers that we need so badly,&#0160;but to help enhance the classroom experience with more meaningful projects and ideas.&#0160; Here is one of my ideas to try out with the younger middle school aged children.&#0160; These projects are&#0160;used to help&#0160;inspire interest and&#0160;thinking&#0160;about technical careers in our youngest ones.&#0160; Studies have found that when seeds are planted early on in the&#0160;educational&#0160;experience, they can&#0160;bring forth much fruit.&#0160; Richard Williams aka Corporal Willy.&#0160;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20115715a2ca5970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/cardboard-gears-pulleys-and-rubber-bands-7_31_09.docx\">Download Cardboard Gears, Pulleys and Rubber Bands 7_31_09<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;This year&#0160;I might also be in the classroom along with a licensed teacher in a test project that will bring in volunteers with&#0160;their own&#0160;areas of expertise, to teach in certain schools.&#0160; This is not being tried&#0160;out to replace any of<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2009\/07\/class-projects-with-cheap-materials.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":3827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}