3rd-5th Grade ELP Create Robots

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 addressed in these lessons are:

Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CC.K-12.MP.3Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
CC.K-12.MP.1Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
CC.K-12.MP.8Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

adding a rotation stackable cube to create a "ballerina robot"


K/1 ELP working on drag and drop mouse skills along with creating repeat loops for early pre-programming skills.



"Wall-E"programmed the stackable Cubelets to "sweep up trash" aka magnetic pieces.

Programming using a repeat loop and precise angle measurements





2nd grade ELP giving early robotics a try!


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