A 2024 Grant for Warren County Middle School

The goal of this project is to facilitate Warren County Middle School students’ exploration of atomic structure through the use of Happy Atoms, a chemistry educational manipulative. Many students are visual and kinesthetic learners. These sets of magnetic atoms (funded by a previous WCEE grant) are paired with tablets to create an augmented reality, game-structured scenario. More than 200 molecules can be built on one Happy Atoms set alone, and the app on the tablet has information on every molecule that is made, giving students a real-life application to talk about as a class. The grant will be used toward the purchase of tablets and cases.