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Create an App Students designed and built an app to help middle school students learn where the different organ systems are located in the human body. | User Interface (UI) Students brainstormed, designed, and sketched the user interface (UI) before coding their mobile app. | Micro:bit Students explored the Micro:bit tutorial to prepare for their next Gateway Computer Science course Innovators and Makers. |
Create an App
Students designed and built an app to help middle school students learn where the different organ systems are located in the human body.
User Interface (UI)
Students brainstormed, designed, and sketched the user interface (UI) before coding their mobile app.
Micro:bit
Students explored the Micro:bit tutorial to prepare for their next Gateway Computer Science course Innovators and Makers.
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GeoGebra 6th grade students used GeoGebra software to explore the coordinate system and to create simple shapes to help develop their spatial visualization from 2D to 3D graphics. | Puzzle Cube Students worked collaboratively to design, construct, and test a puzzle cube using 27 3/4" wooden cubes. Later on they tested their cube design and collected data to analyze. | Design a Toy Following the design process, 6th graders worked cooperatively to design a toy or a game for cerebral palsy students to use during therapy sessions. The toys will help the students carry out everyday activities or improve with skills needed to be successful at school. |
GeoGebra
6th grade students used GeoGebra software to explore the coordinate system and to create simple shapes to help develop their spatial visualization from 2D to 3D graphics.
Puzzle Cube
Students worked collaboratively to design, construct, and test a puzzle cube using 27 3/4" wooden cubes. Later on they tested their cube design and collected data to analyze.
Design a Toy
Following the design process, 6th graders worked cooperatively to design a toy or a game for cerebral palsy students to use during therapy sessions. The toys will help the students carry out everyday activities or improve with skills needed to be successful at school.
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Teamwork After building a testbed, students recorded their observations of inputs and outputs. They are building the skills and knowledge they need to build and test a robot. | VEX Kits Students work collaboratively as they learn the names and uses of the VEX kit parts. Students learned the value of each member of the team sharing the responsibility of accomplishing the task. | Build a Robot 5th graders built a remotely operated robot with a variety of input and output devices. Then they had the opportunity to modify the vehicle that had the ability to collect blocks and move them across the floor. |
Teamwork
After building a testbed, students recorded their observations of inputs and outputs. They are building the skills and knowledge they need to build and test a robot.
VEX Kits
Students work collaboratively as they learn the names and uses of the VEX kit parts. Students learned the value of each member of the team sharing the responsibility of accomplishing the task.
Build a Robot
5th graders built a remotely operated robot with a variety of input and output devices. Then they had the opportunity to modify the vehicle that had the ability to collect blocks and move them across the floor.
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Reaction Tests 4th grade students followed the Scientific Inquiry Process to design and complete an experiment that investigated the effect of a particular factor on reaction time. | Information Processing Using sensory experiences, students modeled how sensory neurons sense changes inside and outside the body and send this information to the central nervous system. | Concussion Prevention Using new skills and knowledge they have learned about the brain, 4th graders excitedly plan to produce a video that will show friends how to prevent concussions. After they write their scripts, they will start creating their videos. |
Reaction Tests
4th grade students followed the Scientific Inquiry Process to design and complete an experiment that investigated the effect of a particular factor on reaction time.
Information Processing
Using sensory experiences, students modeled how sensory neurons sense changes inside and outside the body and send this information to the central nervous system.
Concussion Prevention
Using new skills and knowledge they have learned about the brain, 4th graders excitedly plan to produce a video that will show friends how to prevent concussions. After they write their scripts, they will start creating their videos.
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Compound Machines 3rd grade students expanded their understanding of simple machines by combining two or more of the following machines together: wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, and lever. | More Compound Machines Students created compound machines by combining two or more of the simple machines to solve a simple design problem of their choice. | Magnets Students explored the cause and effect relationship of magnetic interaction. They discussed where they have seen magnets used and identified if the interaction was a push or a pull. |
Compound Machines
3rd grade students expanded their understanding of simple machines by combining two or more of the following machines together: wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, and lever.
More Compound Machines
Students created compound machines by combining two or more of the simple machines to solve a simple design problem of their choice.
Magnets
Students explored the cause and effect relationship of magnetic interaction. They discussed where they have seen magnets used and identified if the interaction was a push or a pull.
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Rolling Sums Game 2nd grade students picked three cards from a hand of five cards to create a sum as close to a target number as possible. The player closest to the target number wins a point. They kept score using a Scorekeeper they programmed using ScratchJr. | Sweep the Grid Students were challenged to animate a character that sweeps across every row and column of the ScratchJr grid using repeat blocks. | Game Makers Students followed the Design Process to design and build their own game using ScratchJr. They learned to persist and have lots of patience when identifying and fixing errors in their programs. |
Rolling Sums Game
2nd grade students picked three cards from a hand of five cards to create a sum as close to a target number as possible. The player closest to the target number wins a point. They kept score using a Scorekeeper they programmed using ScratchJr.
Sweep the Grid
Students were challenged to animate a character that sweeps across every row and column of the ScratchJr grid using repeat blocks.
Game Makers
Students followed the Design Process to design and build their own game using ScratchJr. They learned to persist and have lots of patience when identifying and fixing errors in their programs.
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Fur and Feathers Animals can live in many different places in the world because they have special adaptations to the area in which they live. 1st grade students are introduced to four different categories used to describe adaptations: camouflage, protection, food, and locomotion. | Adaptations 1st graders brainstorm ideas for how it is possible for plants and animals to live in different environments. Both plants and animals have adaptations that help them survive. | Protection Exploration Following directions read aloud, students matched their animal cards to a written poem in their Launch Logs. They learned that animals have specific adaptations to protect themselves in their environment. |
Fur and Feathers
Animals can live in many different places in the world because they have special adaptations to the area in which they live. 1st grade students are introduced to four different categories used to describe adaptations: camouflage, protection, food, and locomotion.
Adaptations
1st graders brainstorm ideas for how it is possible for plants and animals to live in different environments. Both plants and animals have adaptations that help them survive.
Protection Exploration
Following directions read aloud, students matched their animal cards to a written poem in their Launch Logs. They learned that animals have specific adaptations to protect themselves in their environment.
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Everyday Pushes and Pulls Kinder students worked collaboratively to build with the blocks and then show examples of using force (a push or a pull) to knock them down. | Goldie Blox and the Spinning Machines Students tried to pull objects in two different ways while enjoying the story of Goldie Blox. They described the amount of force needed to get the rope to turn. | Collisions After discussing what happens when objects collide, kinder students drew examples of everyday collisions. in this drawing, the dog made the two friends collide while dad was watching TV. |
Everyday Pushes and Pulls
Kinder students worked collaboratively to build with the blocks and then show examples of using force (a push or a pull) to knock them down.
Goldie Blox and the Spinning Machines
Students tried to pull objects in two different ways while enjoying the story of Goldie Blox. They described the amount of force needed to get the rope to turn.
Collisions
After discussing what happens when objects collide, kinder students drew examples of everyday collisions. in this drawing, the dog made the two friends collide while dad was watching TV.
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