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Hello, fellow educators!
Welcome to our page. Our goal with this website is to help you teach sequencing and programming languages to 3rd graders. We designed a series of 4 lessons, targeted for students in 3rd grade. These lessons align with Florida state standards SC.35.CS-CS.23, SC.35.CS-2.6, SC.35.CS-CP.2.5, and will teach students about the importance of clear communication, and sequencing skills, as well as helping them understand program languages. Through these lessons, the students will use EdScratch to program V2 Edison robots. We also chose to include art as an additional subject to help with creativity and engagement.
There are four lessons total that combine art and the basics of sequencing and programming. Each lesson will provide examples to show what the end result of each lesson should look like. Our first lesson is a combination of an art project and a Jenga activity, the first will produce a drawing and the second will be a Jenga tower as well as the students’ written directions. This first lesson demonstrates the importance of detail and communication in sequencing. In the second lesson, students will be using Edison robots to accomplish basic programming such as getting their robot to move forward, backward, and turn to the right and the left. In lesson three, students will be able to use the skills they learned from the previous lesson and also learn how to get their robot to detect objects. By the end of this lesson, the students will be able to get their robots to go through a maze. In the fourth and final lesson, the students will be using the skills they have acquired from the previous three lessons to get through an assessment of understanding in which students will be asked to make their robot go to a specific place on a map using prompts.
Introduction to Lessons 1-4
Lesson 1: Introduction to sequencing with partner-guided drawing activity as well as a Jenga activity
Lesson 2: Teaches basic controls and programming with the Edison V2 Robot
Lesson 3: Maze #1 with Edison Bot! This lesson teaches the students object detection with their Edison Bots
Lesson 4: Test of Understanding: Completing a more difficult Maze with the Edison V2 Robot using the skills learned in previous lessons