This project was really fun, there was a lot of room for creativity and coming up with ideas to make a collage/image move in some way. Brionna and I found an image we liked right away and decided to run with it. It was an image of a faint rainbow in the background of a landscape. We wanted the rainbow to be more apparent and move so Brionna worked on the logistics of making the movement work. She added a double circuit and pushed the motor through the cardboard. I worked on the rainbow aspect and decided to use a small container to add to the motor and decorate it with rainbow everything! I added pipe cleaners and paper and paint. We had a little trouble once we attached it with it being too heavy. So we made a spacer between the motor and the container and it worked much better! Once we got those two components down, we wanted to incorporate LEDs so we made a flower/sun led by just attaching LEDs around a battery as they are. I would def use this project in my classroom as it was fun and not super competitive but a good way to explore materials.
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