An engaging lesson using Dash robot to help students identify and describe different attributes of landforms.

How does technology change the way that people locate new places? Students will use various means to locate a specific location and compare which is better for different circumstances.

Relating the water cycle to computer programming by using simple robots to show the connection between the natural and digital worlds.

Skip counting by 10’s to help students understand the connection between skip counting patterns and digital information reassembly.

Identify relative and absolute location and make a connection between how digital programmers through an activity to help students practice absolute and relative location while working to debug or problem solve like programmers.

Place Value Password Protect:
Students will use place value to create a secret password that other students will try to figure out or hack their password.

This is a multi-day culminating activity based on unit 2 of the 4th grade Wonders curriculum. Students will work in groups to research a chosen animal off of a given list. After researching the animal, they will create a visual using four nonfiction text features to describe the animal. Students will connect a Makey Makey to their presentation and record audio describing each section. After projects are complete, students will participate in a gallery walk. A rubric accompanies this activity so teachers have guidelines on how to assess student work.

Bee-bot is trying to learn Math. Students will follow Bee-bot solving a math problem. It will solve the problem incorrectly. Students will find where the mistake occurs and correct Bee-bot’s program to help him solve it correctly.

Dancing Dash!
Create a dance for Dash to do along with students to demonstrate mastery of Math (addition/subtraction) and Science (motion/force).

Using Makey Makey to build a circuit and learning about electricity as a form of energy to cause change.

Students will read as a whole class or small group Extra Credit by Andrew Clements in conjunction with Wonders Unit 3 (4th grade).  Teachers will assign the google slides to each individual as a reading comprehension completion activity.  Students can use these slides as a springboard for book discussions.  Technology enhanced culminating activities are included in google slides 9-10 for transfer of knowledge at the end of the novel study.  

The lesson will focus on how the internet breaks things into small pieces for transmission by reading and decomposing fables into parts and then creating and writing new fables using a graphic organizer.

Students will have to decide and plan which items they want Dash to go after during a game demonstrating the effects of supply, demand, and scarcity.

Students will discuss and create a scratch jr animation about the phases of the moon.

In this lesson students will learn about transmission: 1- how not to pass germs to others and 2- how what they say and do online travels and reaches a broad range of people.

Building stories and vocabulary with LEGOS. Students will learn about how the vocabulary words relate to their build and learn to work together as a team to come up with a single concept and idea.

Students will learn about spiders; naming the different parts of the spiders, how they get food, water and what they eat by coding the Spider (Dash) to get through the web.

 In this lesson, students will work interactively throughout the reading of Gary the Dreamer from their Wonders Literature Anthology. The lesson will begin with discussion about what a community is and how we do/can contribute to our community. Students will record their responses on a Jamboard for whole group discussion. As you read the “Gary the Dreamer”, students will pause and answer questions on a PearDeck for discussion. After reading the text, students will sequence events of Gary’s life by completing an electronic flow map (different links for scaffolding reasons below). For their formative assessment, students will then put their evidence in their flow map in paragraph form.

Lesson focuses on building multisyllabic words using affixes, while troubleshooting nonsense words created and what happens when information is not transferred correctly.