H.A.G.S.!

In the spirit of computational thinking, students wrapped up the year with a digital breakout "Caught in the Code." Before this collaborative project, they worked independently or in small groups to create something related to the tools and skills we have focused on in class this semester. Their final project involved choosing a tool or skill that they worked on this semester to create something, anything at all, so long as it was related to the following: 

Grade 5	Grade 6

Enjoy some links to group work and projects that can be shared. 

Class of 2028

Class of 2029

Randomness

Micro:bit Pet Robot

In sixth grade students used the tools they garnered when exploring other Micro:bit projects to build a robot pet. Their pet build was based on the interview of a classmate to learn about their dream pet. After working in pairs to interview each other, students used the data to sketch a prototype before they rolled up their sleeves to build and code a pet robot! Check out the lesson activity from Micro:bit.

Before coding their project the were tasked with writing pseudocode to think through and record their ideas for how the code would work. 

Check out some projects on the Google Slide below. Watch the video to hear directly from some students about their pet project. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

Everyone Loves a Parade

After MCAS some students explored remixing a Scratch project. Together with their avatars they practiced downloading and uploading local files, to ultimately share a new file type for Scratch, .sb3. 

Next up all grade five students will explore some coding projects using Scratch.MIT.edu. Because the kids are under 13, we did not use Scratch accounts. Instead we practiced file management and continued discussions about file types as students downloaded Scratch .sb3 files locally to their Chromebook.