Coding About Ecosystems!!

CODING is a FOREIGN LANGUAGE!!

Our 4th graders have learned EVERYTHING about ECOSYSTEMS!  It is time to Show What We Know!! We are using a coding app called PBS ScratchJr. Our challenge is to demonstrate the flow of energy in an ecosystem beginning with the sun that includes producers, consumers, and decomposers.  The kids have creative flexibility to design their own sprites within the program as long as the challenge is completed.

I honestly have been BLOWN AWAY  by the coding creativity of these KIDS!!  They understand the topic and are showing their own personalities in their coding!!!  Teacher’s DREAM!!

Thanks to the FREY Foundation for the supplies to engage children on this level!!

 

 

 

 

Learning to Write Code for Robots!!

We Love GRANTS!!   A huge Thank YOU goes out to our wonderful Frey Foundation and the Georgia Mineral Society!  The STEM Lab received two STEM in Action Coding & Mineral Collection kits.

Our 3rd graders are learning how powerful landslides expose  minerals that were previously hidden under Earth’s surface.  Their challenge is to program Botley Robot to pick up specific minerals along the path of the landslide for further testing. The kids are learning to WRITE the code that will be sent to Botley.  Tough Stuff!!