2019-20 STEAM Lab week 17

Welcome back to the STEAM Lab 2020 edition!

It was a great start to the new year with Robo-Retells, Reused can cuicas, and new Scratch + Makey Makey projects.

K-5 got reacquainted with their Code.org accounts – just two more rotations to try to complete their courses. But we spent most of our time on our projects this week.

Kinder learned to program the Bee Bots then made their own story maps for Are You My Mother by P. D. Eastman. They did a fantastic job on their Robo-Retells and really enjoyed themselves!

These Eco-Schools USA Green Heroes also had a Trash Bash on Thursday. Thank you for taking care of our campus and our planet!

1^st grade Monarch Heroes researched the annual migration phenomena via Nat Geo Kids and the Journey North resources. They then created their own mini migration maps and sang the Robo-Retell with the second verse of their theme song.

2^nd grade Recycling Heroes revisited their awesome DaCamera Music Encounter “Landfill Harmonic” and made their own repurposed can cuicas. Thanks to Ms. Telfah and her staff in our cafeteria for saving the cans for us! Students painted them and treated themselves (and anyone anywhere near the lab) to an impromptu cuica concert on Friday!

3^rd grade learned about the water cycle from BrainPOP Jr., created their own script and water cycle map for the Ozobots to travel. They learned to create the color codes to manage the speed and motion and did a good job making their maps.

K-3 were able to finish in time to squeeze in a Free Build Friday!

4^th and 5^th grade had much more elaborate projects and weren’t able to wrap them up until Friday. They will be having special presentation slots on Monday because they did such a great job!

4th grade teams of 8 researched the seasonal changes of trees via DK Findout and NWF online. Each pair in the team focused on one season. Each pair then created a script to explain their seasonal change and created a Scratch/ Makey Makey project that shared their explanation along with an animation of their tree changing and also an Ozobot map for a retelling of the story of a year for a tree. The pairs in each team combined their work to put the whole year together.

5^th grade teams of 2-6 selected their own topic to investigate on BrainPOP, then split up to create large scale Ozobot Robo-Retell maps and a Scratch/ Makey Makey project to share their learning.

Such an awesome way to start 2020!