Kaleidoscopes Guide

$10.00

TEACHING GUIDE
Craft cool toys while investigating exciting optical inventions. Create delightful pattern wheels and reflective mirrors. Then explore simple machines to activate spinning creations. We’ve included 2 versions to scale for different ages and experience levels. Use our snap together cardboard tubes for younger makers. Or, design your own custom tubes with our templates for a deeper engineering challenge.

TEACHING GUIDE
Craft cool toys while investigating exciting optical inventions. Create delightful pattern wheels and reflective mirrors. Then explore simple machines to activate spinning creations. We’ve included 2 versions to scale for different ages and experience levels. Use our snap together cardboard tubes for younger makers. Or, design your own custom tubes with our templates for a deeper engineering challenge.

When you order this Guide, you’ll get a PDF one-sheet with a link and password to our Leader Portal. There you’ll find amazing digital resources for easy planning & implementation.

  • Ages: K-8th Grade; Adult Makers

    Time: 90 min-2 hours total (Chunk out in phases)

  • Link & Password to Leader Webpage

    Supply Planners & Ordering Links

    PDF Templates & Handouts

    Video Tutorials

    Slideshow Instructions

    Simple & Complex Versions

    Curricular Integrations

    Scaling & Scaffolding Ideas

    Trouble-Shooting Tips

    Samples of Student Work

    Common Core & NGSS Standards

    Individual Program License

  • Engineering

    Simple Machines

    Design Process

    Visual Art

    Optics