Cleaning Our EcoSystem with Robots

Students will design a device using Spheros or Sphero Minis and recyclables to help clean trash out of waterways.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Carrie Robledo, Elizabeth Foxworth

Alligator Angles

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Carrie Robledo

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup with Spheros

During this unit, students will learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They will read about the GPGP and then prepare a presentation with their findings and solutions.  Lastly, they will create a prototype to help with the ocean cleanup and use Spheros to maneuver the prototype to pick up trash in water.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Carrie Robledo, APRIL SUMMEY

Coding Through a Story

During this PBL, students will read a text and make it come alive by creating a 3D story map that shows the major events of the plot and the obstacles that the main character faced throughout the story. Students will then code an Ozobot to maneuver through the story and the obstacles while explaining them to an audience or their peers.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Carrie Robledo, APRIL SUMMEY

Creating Your Community with Ozobot

After brainstorming a list of essential businesses and/or points of interest, each student will create a building from recycled cardboard. They will then decide a location to house the building in the city. There will also be waterways included.  Then in teams of 2-3 the students will use recycled materials to build a bridge to carry the ozobot through the city giving tours of important locations. The ozobot will need to be able to cross the bridge which will allow students to work through issues with force and motion.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Carrie Robledo, Toni Luther

The Most Magnificent Thing: Literacy, Robotics, and Makey Makey

 Students will listen to the book The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires and then collaboratively work together to make a doll that talks using the Scratch program and a Makey Makey. (These two tools were introduced and taught prior to this lesson.)

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Carrie Robledo, ANGIE MITCHELL

Forces and Motion with Spheros

 Students are tasked with moving a 20 gram (or other low denomination) weight a distance of one meter using a “Sphero*” remote controlled robot.  Students use available materials to design and build a structure that will allow the sphero to push or pull the weight, while allowing for factors such as friction, direction, and gravity.   *Note: Although students can issue specific commands in the Sphero software, this activity only requires that they be able to “drive” the Sphero, thus providing the force to move the weight. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Carrie Robledo

2nd grade math place value Password Protect

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Cha Cha mCS Whole Group Learning Plan

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

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Reading Trailers mCS Whole Group Learning Plan

Students Share Their Reading Through A Short Movie! Integrates plot structure, main ideas and summarizing. Much better than a written report!

Material Type: Activity/Lab

2nd grade Science Water Cycle Robots

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

Material Type: Activity/Lab

2nd grade Social Studies Location

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

2nd grade SS Changing Technology

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

First Grade Moon Looping(Scratch Jr.)--And the Sprite Jumped Over the Moon

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

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Scratching Solids, Liquids, and Gasses

Students will create a representation for the molecules in a solid, liquid, and a gas. They will then animate their representations to mimic the movement of the molecules inside of each type of matter.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

First Grade Economics(Dash)--Dashing for Groceries

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

First Grade Sick Simon--Keep Your Germs and Information to Yourself

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Grade 3 Affixes

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

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Procedures in a Sequence 3rd Grade

The lesson will focus on the importance of understanding technical procedures from a text and following procedures in a specific sequence.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading

Fables into Parts

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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading