WeDo 2.0 Activity for Students



ISTE Standards:

    5.3C Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts. 

4b Design authentic learning activities that ask students to leverage a design process to solve problems with awareness of technical and human constraints and defend their design choices.

Activity:

When being with the students for a quick mini-lesson, we expect to only have 30 minutes with the students. We are planning on doing about 5-10 minutes of instruction and allowing the rest of the time for the students to learn with the programming.

The students will approach the table that we will have set up, with the robot already built. The robot took about 60 minutes to build, so the students would not have time to do this in their rotation. We will ask them what they think they are looking at, which is a flower and a bug of some sort. Then we will ask them what they think is going to happen after they code the robot. By doing this, we are allowing the students to make observations about what they are first seeing. 

After listening to the students, we will allow the students to start messing with the coding. The original code is listed in the instructions, so we will let them pull the same codes from the bottom to match the code that is given. The code should look like this…

Then, we will allow the students to try new functions to see what they will be able to make the robot do. Possibly change the direction of the bugs’ flight, allow them to change the color of the light, change the speeds of the bug, manipulate the music, and how to make the bug continue to fly. They should look like this… 

Once they start getting the hang of coding (and there is enough time), the students will be able to build a new bug out of legos. After putting it back together, they then can program new scenarios for the new pollinator.

Comments

  1. Kylie FilipiakNovember 8, 2021 at 12:51 PM

    Good job with this post my only critique is to make your pictures larger, and add you ISTE standards to the page!

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  2. karafloresNovember 8, 2021 at 1:02 PM

    I enjoyed reading your post! These are a couple of ISTE standards that I think you could incorporate is
    5.3C Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts. is another ISTE standard you can add to this activity.
    **Incorporating this standard it will give you the opportunity to work with other colleagues and decide the best way to present to your classes.
    Another ISTE standard that might be helpful is...
    4b Design authentic learning activities that ask students to leverage a design process to solve problems with awareness of technical and human constraints and defend their design choices.
    **This will allow you to have a discussion with your students can incorporate these technical codes at home when a problem arises.
    :)

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