#CollaboratoryCubs Conquer Our Short Week
Although it was a short week, it was a busy week in the TES Collaboratory! Take a look at what we did:
Our kindergarten designers began their "Designing Bridges" unit this week! As with all of our Engineering is Elementary units, the learning kicks off with an empathy-based core literature piece that sets the foundation for the unit. The story for this unit is "Javier Builds a Bridge". The kinders made some really insightful comments about the story and about how to help Javier solve his problem. One of the key words introduced in the story was "sturdy" because Javier was in need of a sturdier bridge. Therefore, after the story, the kinders got to explore some different building materials and decide if they were "sturdy" or not.
Our first and second graders entered the world of coding this week! They learned some computer programming basics, and they were introduced to the following "code words": command, algorithm, debugging, and loop. They explored a variety of coding activities to apply their learning. They got to test out Coji the Emoji Robot, the Code-and-Go Robot Mouse, Snap Circuits, and Active Code Hopper.
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