Enthuse and Motivate . . . . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

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Enthuse and Motivate . . . . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3 Paul Gardiner Head of Electronics, Finham park School, Coventry West Midlands Support Hub Leader for the Electronics in Schools Strategy

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

Paul GardinerHead of Electronics, Finham park School, Coventry

West Midlands Support Hub Leader for the Electronics in Schools Strategy

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► Enthused and motivated students are those who have designed and made quality functioning electronic products . . .

. . .of which they are proud . . .

. . . and want to keep.

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► What projects do students want to keep?

. . . do we ever ask them?

► Do girls have different project preferences to boys?

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► Which projects would students like to take home?

Led torch, steady hand game, am radio, fuse tester, digital dice, cyberpet, moisture sensor, mp3 amplifier, nightlight, tooth brushing timer, door hanger, musical greeting card

► Which projects would students like to take home?

Led torch, steady hand game, am radio, fuse tester, digital dice, cyberpet, moisture sensor, mp3 amplifier, nightlight, tooth brushing timer, door hanger, musical greeting card

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► Motivating projects are relevant, novel and fun.

► Demotivating projects are irrelevant, standard and boring.

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► Motivating projects work (if they are well constructed)

. . . use well tried off-the-shelf kits which use high quality pcbs.

. . . commission commercial printing of well tried and tested circuits.

. . . use schematic capture for student designed pcbs.

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► Establish the quality standard of construction by example.

. . . use labelled photographs.

. . . provide an example to copy.

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► Quality electronic products are encased . This is most easily achieved if the pcb design is . .

. . . compact,

. . . has controls that interface well with the enclosure

. . . and minimises the use of flying leads

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Enthuse and Motivate . .. . essential practical electronics ideas for KS3

► Use of cad/cam is an excellent way of producing electronic product enclosures

. . . it allows students to be creative and customise their project

. . . can result in a high quality outcome

. . . speedy process . . . gives pace to lessons

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W A R N I N G

Although working from off-the-shelf kits can yield high quality, reliable outcomes care is needed to ensure there is scope for creativity and for students to customise their own products.