As we are entering the third year of pandemic teaching and student learning, it is essential that teachers explore new ways to engage students. We are striving for strategies that are intuitive, inclusive, and adaptable to engage students, regardless of their learning abilities or socioeconomic status. One of the many ways of engaging students is by creating a culture of collaboration and inquiry. A report by the LEGO Foundation shows that learning through play can close achievement gaps across all groups, helping all children develop important skills they will need to succeed at any life stage.
This fun, innovative, creative, and challenging LEGO project will be used in the classroom to support multiple 21st-century skills and Computer Science standards.
Students will have the opportunity to use the LEGO supplies provided by this project to create unlimited numbers of machines, towns, or vehicles!
Twenty-first-century skill collaboration: We can work together, share responsibility for completing one product of our work, and make decisions together, with all of us doing our part.
Twenty-first-century skill use of technology for learning: I can interpret (understand), synthesize (put together), evaluate (pick the best), or analyze (compare/contrast) information only by using technology, and I can make something with it.
Nevada Computer Science Standards Algorithms and Programming: 2.AP.PD.1 - Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
2.AP.C.1 - Develop programs with sequences and loops, to express ideas or address a problem.
2.AP.M.1 - Break down (decompose) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions.
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As we are entering the third year of pandemic teaching and student learning, it is essential that teachers explore new ways to engage students. We are striving for strategies that are intuitive, inclusive, and adaptable to engage students, regardless of their learning abilities or socioeconomic status. One of the many ways of engaging students is by creating a culture of collaboration and inquiry. A report by the LEGO Foundation shows that learning through play can close achievement gaps across all groups, helping all children develop important skills they will need to succeed at any life stage.
This fun, innovative, creative, and challenging LEGO project will be used in the classroom to support multiple 21st-century skills and Computer Science standards.
Students will have the opportunity to use the LEGO supplies provided by this project to create unlimited numbers of machines, towns, or vehicles!
Twenty-first-century skill collaboration: We can work together, share responsibility for completing one product of our work, and make decisions together, with all of us doing our part.
Twenty-first-century skill use of technology for learning: I can interpret (understand), synthesize (put together), evaluate (pick the best), or analyze (compare/contrast) information only by using technology, and I can make something with it.
Nevada Computer Science Standards Algorithms and Programming: 2.AP.PD.1 - Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
2.AP.C.1 - Develop programs with sequences and loops, to express ideas or address a problem.
2.AP.M.1 - Break down (decompose) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions.
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