My twenty-fourth year of teaching has been so much fun. My fourth graders are curious, creative, inquisitive, and kind 9 and 10-year-olds. They have a vast range of abilities and levels of confidence. They enjoy challenges and teamwork tasks. The fourth graders are the oldest in our K-4 school. I aim to create an environment where students can work collaboratively, across the grade level, while developing the skills that will help them to succeed. Each child has strengths and areas to improve upon. Incorporating STEM activities, tasks and lessons into our school day will engage the students and further their interests in engineering while promoting team work.
My goal is to facilitate learning while building students' academic and social confidence.
Guiding the students to find academic success and helping each child to develop social skills to help them interact with others is the rewarding part of my day. I encourage each child to take responsibility for learning through perseverance. Providing a variety of ways to present student work and options will increase student academic confidence!
My Project
Using Dash Wonder Robot will help my innovative 4th graders to learn to design, build and program their own designs. Students will be engaged in small groups while collaborating and planning together. Persevering and determining how to draw, explore loops, and sequences through coding the students will incorporate geometry math skills and develop architectural strategies. The challenges will make learning fun!
The fourth graders will learn simple programming by forming commands and then build on their skills to develop more complex algorithms.
These resources will help ignite a spark in them while developing engineering and coding skills through exploration and collaborative teamwork.
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