WeDo Bots Activity
Activity Design
1c: Leverage CT and CS experts, resources and professional learning networks to continuously improve practice integrating CT across content areas.
2c: Choose teaching approaches that help to foster an inclusive computing culture, avoid stereotype threat and equitably engage all students.
For our activity we chose to make and experiment with the coding for "Frog's Metamorphosis".
Activity: The Lego frog/tadpole shall be prebuilt so the children will have more time to experiment with the coding itself. I have planned this activity so the students do a lot of exploring and experimenting to discover their own findings and then we can share what we found together.
Instruction Link for Making a Frog:
https://education.lego.com/v3/assets/blt293eea581807678a/bltae23720e9e93bd04/5ebe64df2a79326d92da759f/tadpole-instructions.pdf
Activity Steps:
Step 1: Hypothesize and explore what the different green codes do
Step 2: Explore how changing the numbers on the codes effect the frog's movements
Step 3: Place two-three codes together and let them see how it moves the frog
Step 4: Experiment with more codes (red and yellow)
Step 5: Share what we have learned
Step 6: Extra Time- Have students deconstruct the frog
Below is pictures of the coding used for "Frog's Metamorphosis" and a video of the frog in action!
Hi Allison!
ReplyDeleteThe video link of the WeDo bot moving is a great visual representation of the activity. It helped me understand what is supposed to occur. In addition, the inclusion of the code itself is a great reference when doing the activity. I would recommend rotating the last picture, so that it is easier to see.
Hey Allison, I loved this idea! For this one, I would include an ISTE Standard such as "1c: Leverage CT and CS experts, resources and professional learning networks to continuously improve practice integrating CT across content areas." I chose this one because your are not only teaching them about computational thinking, but science as well.
ReplyDeleteHey Allison love the blog! I feel another standard you could connect would be as follows:
ReplyDelete2c: Choose teaching approaches that help to foster an inclusive computing culture, avoid stereotype threat and equitably engage all students.
I feel this way because this lab provides a lot of opportunities for us to foster inclusion because anyone can code!