We has our first Saturday meeting this past week. The kiddos came in and got alot of great work done together. They are really starting to make progress and get excited about what the robot will do with the missions. It did help that Krispy Kreme may have been on hand to "fuel" our early Saturday session :). This week I told the kids that I will be planing out their sessions less and less. I will still have the first 30 minutes for set up, snack, and Core Value teamwork. As a team they will need to decide where their focus needs to be and who will be accomplishing what. Core Values Activity-This week's Core Values was the Moving Marbles. It involved each team member having 2 toilet paper polls, the first person gets 1 toilet paper roll and 1 marble and the last person gets a cup and 1 toilet paper roll. The challenge was the marble had to make its way through each toilet paper roll and end in the cup that is on the floor. Teams did great! They did not even need close to the 5 minutes I gave them. So, I add more marbles and a few twists to make it more challenging. This is always fun to watch! Practice Pics-A lot of great progress has been made with getting both team's base robot built, possible attachments to complete missions, and investigations into how to program the robot. To see the kiddos eyes light up and their amazement once something works or turns out like they planned is amazing. It is why I went into teaching.....the aha moment!
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Christine ChiodoI am a junior high teacher at Pontiac Junior High School. Archives
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