Each year, our students participate in Hour of Code. They then have the opportunity to practice these coding skills throughout the school year in the library makerspace. At this time, however, there are more devices and opportunities for intermediate (3rd to 5th) students to expand their learning through robots like Sphero and Ozobots than there are for our primary students (K-2).
The goal of this project is to bridge this gap and to provide more hands-on activities and robots for our younger students to explore.
The Let's Go Code Activity Set is included in this request because this is a kinesthetic way to teach students directional sense and critical thinking. Engaging in this activity will help students develop a sequential thought process through discovery.
The Bee-Bot Starter Pack will take this learning to the next level by helping students become more comfortable with directional language, enhance problem solving skills, and control through collaboration. The starter pack comes with maps and other ideas for integrating this learning into content within the classroom.
The Code and Go Robot Mouse contains many of the features that the Bee-Bot does; however, the goal is to develop those early engineering skills and critical thinking by creating and navigating mazes to get the mouse to the cheese. Our school has the maze materials, but our poor mouse expired from overuse. We need a new mouse to continue our coding concept development.
The Botley Robot is being requested because this robot is going to provide an excellent transition between the early coding skills developed using materials like the Bee-Bot and the more advanced coding opportunities developed using robots like Sphero. Botley includes concepts like repeat, object detection, and can handle up to 80 steps so that students can work with more complex codes.
Please consider helping our makerspace grow!
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Each year, our students participate in Hour of Code. They then have the opportunity to practice these coding skills throughout the school year in the library makerspace. At this time, however, there are more devices and opportunities for intermediate (3rd to 5th) students to expand their learning through robots like Sphero and Ozobots than there are for our primary students (K-2).
The goal of this project is to bridge this gap and to provide more hands-on activities and robots for our younger students to explore.
The Let's Go Code Activity Set is included in this request because this is a kinesthetic way to teach students directional sense and critical thinking. Engaging in this activity will help students develop a sequential thought process through discovery.
The Bee-Bot Starter Pack will take this learning to the next level by helping students become more comfortable with directional language, enhance problem solving skills, and control through collaboration. The starter pack comes with maps and other ideas for integrating this learning into content within the classroom.
The Code and Go Robot Mouse contains many of the features that the Bee-Bot does; however, the goal is to develop those early engineering skills and critical thinking by creating and navigating mazes to get the mouse to the cheese. Our school has the maze materials, but our poor mouse expired from overuse. We need a new mouse to continue our coding concept development.
The Botley Robot is being requested because this robot is going to provide an excellent transition between the early coding skills developed using materials like the Bee-Bot and the more advanced coding opportunities developed using robots like Sphero. Botley includes concepts like repeat, object detection, and can handle up to 80 steps so that students can work with more complex codes.
Please consider helping our makerspace grow!