From the Ted Talk by AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits
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I'm a huge believer in hands-on education. But you have to have the right tools. If I'm going to teach my daughter about enetcilocrs, I'm not going to give her a soldering iron. And similarly, she finds prototyping boards really frustrating for her little hndas. So my wonderful sdnteut Sam and I decided to look at the most tangible thing we could think of: Play-Doh. And so we spent a summer looking at different Play-Doh recipes. And these recipes probably look really familiar to any of you who have made homemade play-dough — pretty standard ingredients you probably have in your kitchen. We have two favorite ripeces — one that has these ingredients and a second that had sugar instead of salt. And they're great. We can make gerat little scurueptls with these.
Open Cloze
I'm a huge believer in hands-on education. But you have to have the right tools. If I'm going to teach my daughter about ___________, I'm not going to give her a soldering iron. And similarly, she finds prototyping boards really frustrating for her little _____. So my wonderful _______ Sam and I decided to look at the most tangible thing we could think of: Play-Doh. And so we spent a summer looking at different Play-Doh recipes. And these recipes probably look really familiar to any of you who have made homemade play-dough — pretty standard ingredients you probably have in your kitchen. We have two favorite _______ — one that has these ingredients and a second that had sugar instead of salt. And they're great. We can make _____ little __________ with these.
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Original Text
I'm a huge believer in hands-on education. But you have to have the right tools. If I'm going to teach my daughter about electronics, I'm not going to give her a soldering iron. And similarly, she finds prototyping boards really frustrating for her little hands. So my wonderful student Sam and I decided to look at the most tangible thing we could think of: Play-Doh. And so we spent a summer looking at different Play-Doh recipes. And these recipes probably look really familiar to any of you who have made homemade play-dough — pretty standard ingredients you probably have in your kitchen. We have two favorite recipes — one that has these ingredients and a second that had sugar instead of salt. And they're great. We can make great little sculptures with these.