My students need Legos to build more during our Maker time. I have partnered with another classroom and we need more Legos.
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My Students
My students come from all over the world! We are fortunate to be in shadow's distance to a major university which provides us the opportunity for our students to learn alongside a very international and diverse group of friends. It also means that we have an ever changing level of abilities and expectations within our classroom walls. A typical day in my classroom involves a lot of movement and discussion. We are an active group and are constantly exploring the curriculum through experimentation and personal interaction with the world!
My Project
I have partnered with some other teachers to do some "Maker" days together. We need more Legos. We just do not have enough. It would be nice to have plenty to talk about communities and then actually build a community. There are many more possibilities with Legos. We truly want to integrate designing something, building that something, and then testing that something.
In the past I have used Legos in all facets of math and even some in science with sorting, classifying, and graphing.
With this new batch, I plan to use the Legos even more with math in teaching, area, perimeter, spatial recognition, graphing, classifying, fractions, and computation. I would also like to do more with science where students could design a Lego structure and build it. For example: students could design a catapult, build that catapult and test the catapult all while recording data in a spread sheet about it. I would also like to start incorporating Legos into writing instruction. An example would be that students could build a set out of the Legos and then write a story about what they have built.
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