Yadira of Sunset Spark visited the Lower School Technology room and did a Robotics lesson with some 2nd graders. They used WeDo Legos to build their robots and learned how robotics is used in the world today. Continue reading
Category Archives: Media Literacy
Game On!
As a culminating project to their Scratch Unit, some students chose to create a game. They included some video game characteristics such as win/lose sounds, programmed speech, directions, goals, reset blocks etc. Then created a screencast in which they recorded the demonstration. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/145923875/ Bengamin https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwAweeMS06nPZDVRcjZ5MEZIX0U/view Andrew https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0633–XxGWyODA2X3BuaEpockk/view Alex https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwE6zxad4h_6YkVGQXFDWVNScDg/view Savino https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx55LruYtsukZ3ZoYmhBRHlJem8/view … Continue reading
Name Animations
Here are just a few of the Name Animations created by our 3rd Graders. They coded to add various types of motion, sound, and color to their name. Then shared with their classmates to receive feedback. As you can see in these pictures above. https://vimeo.com/211539727 https://vimeo.com/211340753 Afrah https://vimeo.com/211340722 Allegra https://vimeo.com/211340700 … Continue reading
Lights, Camera, Action!
In this photo, a first grader is demonstrating the ShowMe app. Some students in the Lower school have begun the Digital Storytelling Unit. In this unit the students will learn grade appropriate visual storytelling language, strategies and software. They will learn how meaning is created by combining visuals, audio and text. Students will learn about … Continue reading
Creative Computing Using Scratch.
Check out this game created by one of our 5th graders using Scratch! Click on the link below. Enjoy! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/145923875/ Students have been busy coding using Scratch to create and animate video games, greeting cards, stories and more. Some have learned how to take a screenshot of their project so they can include it in … Continue reading
Hour of Code: 15 seconds with Samiya
Students are filling out a Google Form to note what they were introduced to during Hour of Code last week. The form asks them to think about what they’d like to do next in learning to code, and what they might build with code in their lives. Samiya shared a few of her responses in these selfie … Continue reading
4th graders teach you how to program a robot
This video, made during the Hour of Code for Computer Science Week by Django and Miles, shows the process of using code to program a robot called a Sphero to perform a task they dreamed up. Continue reading
