Students will use Lego WeDo kits or any other building kit such as k’nex, or geomags or craft materials to build the alligator or alligator mouth and then use a protractor to measure the angle of the mouth opening. Connecting math and the everyday world through the use of building an object to incorporate angle measurements.   As an extension of learning students will then attempt to vary the measurement by adjusting the bands or speed of the motor if using wedo or programmable build kits or non-robotic version by adjusting the hinge of the mouth. Students should attempt to alter the build in efforts to change the angle.

Day 1:
In this lesson, students will…
Use Bee-bots to trace the perimeter of a rectangle. They will then prove their findings with equations that match the path that they coded.

Day 2:
In this lesson, students will…
Use Bee-bots to “drive” the area of a rectangle. They will then prove their findings with equations that match the path that they coded.

In this lesson students work in collaborative groups to collect, represent, and interpret numerical data that they generate by using Sphero robots to knock down bowling pins!

In this lesson, students will learn about the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem, pollution in our oceans, as well as simulating an “ocean” cleanup by cleaning up recess area of trash. They will also learn about the top 10 plastic waste producing countries. Students will interpret that data to create a bar or line graph and answer questions based on the information. Students will also be learning about and building their own AI on code.org.