ELP Mo. Valley

MVCSD ELP has begun and we continue to build on our STEM work and pre-computer skills/coding continues.  The above video clip demonstrates our first experience with Ozobots.  The ozobots "follow" the color-coded/computer coded path created by the students.  Our challenges were to apply the computer coding we have learned and create new paths for the ozobot to follow.  The sensors on the ozobot "read" the color-coded computer language.  Standards addressed:  CC.K-12.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CC.K-12.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. CC.K-12.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically. CC.K-12.MP.6 Attend to precision. Our next undertaking will be Genius Hour (www.geniushour.com) for the 6th and 7th grade students.   4th Grade will be further developing The Ronald McDonald pop tab collection and fundraising for The Ronald McDonald House Foundation 2nd-5th Grade are continuing on their codi...

A few highlights from our ELP (extended learning program) groups, as created by the students: 4th Grade ELP Service Learning Project for The Ronald McDonald House collecting an 113, 250 pop/soup tabs  A grand total of 1, 134,000 pop tabs have been donated by the Missouri Valley Little Reds! 5th Grade ELP Service Learning Project for The Giving Tree Project students called the Harrison County Food Pantry to ask for the most needed items students created morning school-wide announcements about collecting items for the food pantry students created posters and brochures to inform students about what to bring, when to bring items and our goal for items collected. K-1st ELP added pre-computer programming skills to our weekly small group time. www.code.org kodables  Hour of Code 2nd Grade ELP groups developed early robotic skills using OSMO, bee-bots and pro-bots 3rd Grade ELP added a course 3 to their studio.code section  vertical stacking of code unders...

The 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade ELP students have been working online at www.code.org and/or www.scratch.mit.edu to build their knowledge and application of computer coding/programming and computer "language".  Over the last 2 weeks, the small groups have taken their online knowledge and put the skills to practical application by working on early robotics.  Students have rotated through 3 stations:  3D Geometry and Magnetic Building, Cubelets Robotics (stackable magnetic cubes that create robots with sense, think and action settings) and Pro-bots (turtle computer and LOGO) programmable robotic cars.  Below are a few pictures and videos from the students' work time. Growth Mindset also played a key role in these lessons.  Students had to be flexible with their thinking, plan on trial and error (with an emphasis on there being error) and working on through situations where the tasks seemed more difficult than they would have liked.  A few of the standards add...