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Reports on Classroom Activities
Read comments from teachers about their classroom experiences with wireless technology topics. -
Articles and Stories
Read about how other teachers have incorporated Amateur Radio and resources from ARRL's Education & Technology Program into their classrooms.
Exploring Amateur Radio and Wireless Technology in the Classroom
Activities that teachers have initiated in their classrooms include:
- Using weather imagery gathered by the students for environmental studies.
- Using TV remotes to control simulated "smart homes".
- Radio Direction Finding (RDF) activities to study how naturalists track wildlife.
- Geography lessons using QSL card (postcards collected from ham contacts around the world).
- A school wide space exploration curriculum including radio stations to receive signals from satellites in space.
- Talking to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Technology as it's happening
5th Graders at Sister Lakes Elementary School in Michigan watch, live from their classrooms, images of the remnants of Hurricane Ida received from satellite NOAA 17 on November 11, 2009.
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Additional classroom activities
- Radio contacts between schools, including school competitions during the School Club Round-up, a nation wide ham radio contest for schools.
- Using radio in ESL classrooms to listen to live broadcasts from countries that use the languages as their native tongue.
- Applying Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID) technology.
- Basic and advanced robotics and RF based sensors on-board roving robots.
- Integrating space, radio, and robotics in a Mars Lander simulation.
- Using radio and electronics to develop and control underwater submersible vehicles for exploration.
- Receiving and interpreting satellite telemetry.
- Building and using a radio telescope to explore the fundamentals of radio astronomy.
- Using GPS and APRS systems to track high altitude balloons and simulated search and rescue activities.
- Building and soldering electronic kits.
- Living radio history by building and using crystal radios.
- Receiving and studying naturally generated radio signals.
- Using VLF signals to study sudden ionospheric disturbances of the ionosphere.
- Programming and using microcontrollers to interf
ace and control electronic devices and sensors. - Using EchoLink and IRLP resources to explore the connections between the Internet and radio systems for world-wide communication activities.
- Using ATV to connect students with video sharing of classroom activities.
- Learning about public service through school based emergency communications programs.
