The Futile Beacon

Objective: Suggest and implement different ways to solve a given problem.

Materials: A flashlight, Manila paper
Procedure: Given the set of materials to your group, try your best to make the flashlight
work then answer the questions that follow.
Q1: Did the flashlight provided to your group work at once?
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Q2: What could possibly went wrong?
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Q3. Why you think these factors must be considered to make the flashlight work?
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Q4. Which of your proposed solutions actually solved the problem?
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Q5. Based on what the group has done, explain why the flashlight did not work
initially. Draw a diagram a sheet of Manila of paper for this purpose (per group).
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Please do not
write anything
on these squares
until were told
to do so.

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Philippine Normal University College of Teacher Development Faculty of Science, Technology and Mathematics