To advance our Blockly coding skills even further, this week we made obstacle courses with any objects found in the classroom. Students had to build a course for their Dash robot to go through while programming their robot using code. This is much harder than it looks! With a lot of teamwork, persistence and dedication they were happy with the end result and so were the robotics club coaches. During this meeting we began to watch and follow a few Dash and Dot Youtube channels while eating our snack before we play. The club members have discovered that they really enjoy the Dash and Dot Show. This very entertaining Youtube channel created by kids gave us many ideas that we want to try. We hope to eventually have our own Youtube channel as well to show how creative we can be. The first Dash and Dot episode can be seen below:
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To celebrate Computer Science Education Week we utilized the Blockly App through Wonder Workshop to give students the opportunity to learn coding with the Dash and Dot robots. Blockly is a drag and drop visual programming tool where kids can perform challenges or create their own programs for Dash and Dot to do. In many of their regular third and fourth grade classes, club members had the chance to try out programs and games at hourofcode.com. Many of the activities that are offered on this site are perfect introductions to coding and we were able to reinforce those concepts with the Blockly App. This app looks and feels very similar to the blocks of code used at the website, and the students were able to grasp concepts easily and show their learning through programming their robots. Club members wore their newly purchased T-shirts for the first time at this meeting. We love these shirts and wore them proudly. Having the shirts really gave us a sense of unity and belonging and they are also super cute!
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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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