Heads Up: Biome Project
Codologie-Science Integration
Hi, Stoddard 6th Grade!
It looks like mentors are introducing/continuing buttons this week. After that, they will teach students how to control LEDs with buttons. Then, I'd say about the week after next, they will introduce the showcase project: Biomes. Student choices are:
- Tundra
- Taiga
- Temperate Deciduous Forest
- Grassland
- Tropical Rain Forest
- Temperate Rain Forest
- Desert (Hot)
- Desert (Cold)
It's up to you whether you want to let them choose their biome or if you want to assign it.
If you want them to choose in Codologie, students will use Student-Paced Mode in Pear Deck to look through the short articles in one of the Benchmark Unit 3 small readers, "Land Biomes" and choose their top 3 choices. It's up to you and the mentors whether you want to allow duplicates.
To be clear: since the research project involves ELA and science standards, we ask that you support student research in class. Codologie time/mentors should be reserved mostly for the coding and building the physical project. However, if time is short, you could pull 1 student per team during Codologie.
Here's what we're telling them for the research project:
I'm thinking of having students score other teams to help them be aware of what each other is doing - thoughts on that and how it will work with the showcase?
Thank you so much for all you do!
As always, please let me know if you have any questions!!!
Email: hboling@anaheimelementary.org
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