May 1st: 1 hour and 50 minutes
– Originally chose to do a lesson for first graders- concept to write a narrative and illustrate that online
– Thought about having the students create avatars, doing something physical outside of the classroom, and creating a chart that illustrated what they did outside of the classroom.
May 3rd: 1 hour and 50 minutes
– More brainstorming- creating sprites on scratch
– Troubleshooting idea- students fixing a problem on scratch by remixing
May 8th: 1 hour and 30 minutes
– Came up with our final plan to have 3rd grade students create their own story with multiple endings on scratch focusing on input and output
– Divided up the work load in terms of assigning lesson plans, and the website duty.
– Started Lesson Plans
Main Progress: Came up with our main idea and began lesson plans!
May 10: 1 hour and 30 minutes
– Continued working on lesson plans- Everyone!
Main Progress: Got big start on the lesson plans.
May 15: 1 hour and 30 minutes
– Worked on Lesson Plan 1- Nicole and Rosie
– Started Worksheet- Abby
– Worked on Lesson Plan 2- Josh
– Worked on Lesson Plan 3- Rosie and Erin
– Scratch- Josh
Main Progress: Finished Lesson Plans 1, 2, and 3, started scratch and worksheet.
May 17: 1 hour and 30 minutes
– Finished Worksheet- Abby
– Worked on Lesson Plan 4- Nicole
– Worked on Lesson Plan 5- Rosie and Erin
– Worked on Website- Rosie
Main Progress: Finished all Lesson Plans!
May 21: 1 hour and 20 minutes
– Worked on Website- Rosie
Main Progress: Almost finished website.
May 22: 1 hour and 50 minutes
– Started Prezi for Video- Erin and Nicole
– Continued Work on Website- Rosie
– Decided on new video outline, no more prezi
Main Progress: Prezi Started, website almost finished, started brainstorming new video ideas!
May 24: 1 hour and 50 minutes
– Worked on Final Scratch Projects- Rosie, Abby, Erin, Nicole
– Discussion of what we are going to do for our video!
May 29: 1 hour and 20 minutes
– Today we divided up the rap and decided who is going to rap each part! After that we practiced the rap and times it to make sure it was going to be 60 seconds.
– We also decided who is going to bring the sheet of grilled bacon and planned out our video!
May 31: 1 hour and 50 minutes
– We filmed our entire video which turned out so well and we had so much fun doing it!
– Josh edited our video and we finished it, we are so excited for you all to see it!
Who Did What?
– Lesson Plans 1- Nicole and Rosie
– Lesson Plan 2- Josh
– Lesson Plan 3- Rosie and Erin
– Lesson Plan 4- Nicole
– Lesson Plan 5- Rosie and Erin
– Website- Rosie
– Worksheet- Abby
– Video- Everyone
– Prezi- Nicole and Erin
– Scratch- Josh
Challenges:
The main challenge that our group encountered was that it took as a very long time to figure out what we were going to teach our students. We spent multiple days coming up with broad ideas that did not meet the guidelines of the assignment. Once we figured out to focus on one specific subject, such as input and output, we started to get the ball rolling. Another issue that our team faced was that one of our members has an incredible opportunity to do an internship in San Fransisco, but she has to leave early, so we struggled to finish our project before she left. Often it felt like we were rushing to finish before she left, but in the end this made our project better. We felt motivated to work hard on our project each time we met, and it made our project stronger.
