Power Puppet: Science and technology education through puppet building

Firaz Peer, Michael Nitsche, Lauren Schaffer

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe our approach to designing electronic puppet-building workshops for middle to early high school students. Power Puppet uses traditional puppet building materials - paper and cloth as the main resources, together with simple circuits elements such as LED's, batteries and magnets. We document our process of designing puppet-building workshops that include STEM education criteria. We collaborated with the Center for Puppetry Arts to design these workshops in such a way that part of the making will include basic electronic input and output components. We aim to open this tradition up for larger audiences to enhance hardware CS education in STEM fields.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Pages221-224
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event13th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2014 - Aarhus, Denmark
Duration: Jun 17 2014Jun 20 2014

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2014
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAarhus
Period6/17/146/20/14

Keywords

  • Basic electronics
  • Conductive materials
  • Curriculum
  • Electronic puppets
  • Puppet making
  • STEM education
  • Workshops

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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