I have so appreciated opportunities other educators have shared with me. This blog shares the opportunities I have discovered for students and educators as they occur and shares activities and ideas from my elementary engineering lab. Students in elementary engineering build working models, use robotics, and design 3D printing projects using project-based learning. Opinions expressed here are my own.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Week 7 - Catch Up, Wrap Up, and Catch My Breath
This week in school is a partial week. Students are in classes only Monday - Wednesday. I was hoping to wrap up loose ends, administer a quick concept assessment with clickers, and run the robots in 5th grade. However, now some of my classes will be off due to no school on Thursday and Friday. I will proceed as planned for the classes I have and decide what to do with the other classes during the course of this week. I hate it when they have to miss.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Week 6 - Tricky, Tricky, Tricky
This week 4th and 5th grade classes will be wrapping up a programming challenge and Academy of Engineering build. I hope an hour will be enough time to tie up loose ends. Wish my Monday classes luck. They are my guinea pigs for the process.
In Kindergarten I am going back to teaching the alphabet builds in alphabetic order. I was trying to have it correspond with the letter they were working on in their classes, but they builds are harder as the alphabet progresses.
In Kindergarten I am going back to teaching the alphabet builds in alphabetic order. I was trying to have it correspond with the letter they were working on in their classes, but they builds are harder as the alphabet progresses.