Our meeting this week kind of went in an unexpected direction. We were planning on doing the DJ Dot Challenge created by Wonder Workshop specifically for clubs, but the students were just not into it. They just wanted to PLAY. Mrs. G and Mrs. Allen decided to just "wing it" and let them have some unstructured time to become more familiar with their machine friends. They enjoyed it and it was nice to take a step back and realize that club activities should be driven by the students themselves rather than us constantly giving them direction and tasks to accomplish. As our meeting progressed, students wanted to invent games as they played and we created a whole group game of Dash, Dash, Dot (duck, duck, goose) and had a few races. The club members loved it and were completely engaged.
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Club members were very excited to attend this week's meeting. We opened and played with the accessory packs! The accessory pack includes a bulldozer bar, bunny ears, bunny tail and a tow hook. We also programmed Dash to play the xylophone. The accessory I think that the children liked the most was the ear accessory that held my iphone where they could take a video of whatever Dash sees in his path when he is programmed to navigate around the room. I was surprised by this. The club members are definitely digital natives and seeing the world in a camera view is not only something they are used to, but also they really enjoy. |
AuthorMrs. G - elementary tech enthusiast! Third grade teacher at Hornung and super excited to lead this STEM based club at our school! Archives
March 2017
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