Enter a dark and spooky hall and turn shadows on the wall into wild and scary monsters There are millions of possibilities for our super hero’s of STEM to create.  Give them arms, legs, horns, spotted tails, sparkly fur, three eyes and two mouths.  There are many assortments of creepy parts for our super hero’s… Read More The Monsters app by Tinybob

Bee-Bot is a colorful, simple-to-use programmable floor robot for young children. The screen–free robot is perfect for teaching simple programming concepts, controls, directional languages, sequencing, estimations and problem-solving. Our students entered instructions to move forward or backward in 15 cm steps or to turn right or left. When they press the <Go> button, the robot moves as instructed. This week… Read More Week #7 – Halloween coding with BeeBot

You probably know phones and tablets use computer programs. But, did you know ovens and microwaves use them too? In this technology movie, Annie and Moby learn about computer programming. Discover how coding is like writing instructions! Explore commands, loops, and algorithms, and learn how to debug your code. Students visited Brain Pop Jr and… Read More Week #6 – Computer Programming

This week our students learned all about Algorithm’s and programming. Students used a programming graphic organizer to begin a screen free coding activity. They were then able to transfer their codes from paper to robot using our floor robot Beebot. Our super hero’s of STEM  programed BeeBot to complete an assigned task with a 7… Read More Week #5 – BeeBot Programming

This week our students learned about our schools’s internet safety policy. Our students explored some of our safe learning sites via our Symbolo page. Last, all classes practiced their keyboarding skills by completing challenging drills.