Monday, November 14, 2016

A 'Bot in Our TK-K Classrooms!


Robots are being used to teach coding and other critical skills in all grades. We are using them this year in our younger grades (Transitional Kindergarten through 1st grade).

I purchased a BeeBot for our MakerCart. My goal was to teach one technology lesson each quarter this year, using the BlueBot and other tools.

I asked our teachers if I could come to their class for a 15-minute lesson in September. I brought my BeeBot and the grid where I placed 4 shapes in 4 colors on the grid. Now I was ready for my first class!


I explained that BeeBot would only where we told him to go. Gathering the children around, I asked the children to code the BeeBot by pressing the directional keys on top of the BeeBot.
Although we didn't have time for everyone to have a turn, they were engaged and loved having BeeBot come to visit their class.

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