As students study the human body, they can include the different body systems as they build their Operation games. Made from a few household materials, a makey-makey kit and the Scratch website, students can create and play their Operation game.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Each team has a budget of $45 to spend to modify a cup into the ultimate predator. After predators are constructed, students battle to pop each others’ balloons. Whichever predator is able to survive is the apex predator.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will create a fictitious city that has experienced a natural disaster. Once their city is completed, students will create a vehicle to transport supplies to the people who need help.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
After learning about Gail Halvorsen, the World War II pilot who created tiny parachutes from handkerchiefs and string to deliver chocolates and other candy to the children of Berlin, students will engineer parachutes to deliver their own packages using Parrot Mambo Drones.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
As students study electricity and circuits, they can build their Operation games. Made from a few household materials, a makey-makey kit and the Scratch website, students can create and play their Operation game.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will be given a Makey Makey kit, a Chromebook with the Scratch website and a choice of materials to create a circuit that will allow the students to play an in instrument.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Design and build a sleigh using a WeDo kit, K’nex or similar, that will pull a specific measured weight.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will use engineering materials to create a topographic map then program Sphero to be a tour guide through the map.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
As students are reviewing odd and even numbers, students first sketch out a bug that has odd or even features. Students then use Tinkercad to turn their sketch into a 3D design to be printed.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
After reading various versions of The Three Little Pigs, students will plan and design houses that could protect the little pigs from the Big Bad Wolf (a hair dryer).
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students will create an obstacle course for the Dash robot to demonstrate the following movements and position words: straight, in front of, behind, zigzag, between, on top of, round and round , under, above, back and forth, below, beside, fast and slow.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
The class won a good behavior contest and the reward is a bowling party. The day of the party it is raining and the students are unable to visit the bowling alley. So the students build their own bowling alley using the WeDo robot kit. Then they have a bowling competition to see who bowls the highest score.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Using the robot, Dash, students will program him to land on different numbers in order to make a specific total.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
An engaging lesson using Dash robot to help students identify and describe different attributes of landforms.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Skip counting by 10’s to help students understand the connection between skip counting patterns and digital information reassembly.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Students will learn about spiders, and be able to name the different parts of the spiders. Students will learn how they get food, water and what they eat. Coding the “Spider” (mouse bot) to get the food to the web.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
K-2 students will learn basic technology terms with a scavenger hunt and games!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Children love LEGOs! And knowing how to code is becoming more and more essential for the next generation of innovators, do-ers and leaders. Put LEGOs and coding together and you have the FIRST LEGO League Explore program, an innovative and engaging project that makes classroom learning popular and fun. We will demonstrate how to build and code with the LEGO WeDo 2.0 kit. In addition, we will learn more about how this kit is used in the FLL Explore program while walking-through the curriculum and the engineering notebook used by students in grades K-4. We will also share best practices for safe use of shared materials.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Design and build a sleigh using a WeDo kit that will pull a specific measured weight.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students will be grouped into teams. Then each team will create a pathway for their Hexbug to travel. The Hexbug path should be 5 feet from beginning to end and must include two curves, a hill, one bridge and one tunnel. The Hexbug must travel from the beginning to the end without any assistance. Each team will have a timer and will have 20 minutes to design the quickest path they can for their Hexbug. After the first race teams will have 5 minutes to talk about changes they can make and 5 minutes to make the changes. There will be one final race to see if a different team is able to win.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
