Metro Elementary Reflection

 Metro Elementary Reflection



Drone Reflection

    My partner and I started off with three students in first grade, and we started with learning about the drone. We had asked the students if they had ever played with or seen a drone before, to which all three of them excitedly said yes they've played with drones, and excited to do it again. We showed them a demonstration of the drone flying and doing a flip. Then, we explained what specific coding was used to make the drone do that. We had them make up their own specific code for them to see what the drone would do. They were very excited to make their own coding sequence. 

    However, at first the drone would not connect to the droneblocks app from the Chromebook provided by the school. So, we switched to plan b and used my personal phone to code the drone. We still used the Chromebook for the students to see and use. After they created their code on the laptop, I would add the same exact one on my phone to launch the drone. 




WeDo 2.0 Reflection

    We started off this lesson by showing the students the snail that they were going to code. (They named the snail Frank.) We explained that for this activity, they were going to code different colors for the snail to light up as. We showed them an example, then had them try. Next, they participated in an activity where they were to draw a color strip of four different colors from a bag, and correctly code the snail with those colors. The students easily picked up on exactly how to do it. Then the students challenged my partner and I to guess exactly what four colors they were going to code the snail with. (We sadly did not get one color right.) They had so much fun with this activity. 

    The app on the Chromebook easily connected to the snail's Bluetooth, so there were no technical errors on this activity.  




5c: Use a variety of instructional approaches to help students frame problems in ways that can be represented as computational steps or algorithms to be performed by a computer.

5b: Empower students to select personally meaningful computational projects.





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  1. Isabella Soriano STEM Technology BlogSeptember 29, 2023 at 2:58 PM

    Hello Jackie, I am glad everything went well. My partner and I also had to connect the drone to the phone because ours wouldn't connect to the chrome books either. Our students had so much fun as well and I was happy to see how fast they picked up on coding too!

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  2. MrysCrtzSeptember 29, 2023 at 7:30 PM

    Hey Jackie! That sucks that the Chromebook didn't work out. Glad to see you had a back-up plan! LOVE that you named your snail Frank! That's SO cute! The student's look very involved and excited to participate in your activities! You are right about the ISTE Standards! The kids were able to quiz y'all allowing them to create personal meaningful memories! Great job my friend! :)

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