Coding Projects

An annual favorite of mine is the coding project unit that the fourth graders do.  They spend a few weeks learning Scratch, and then they design an activity that uses coding to control, move, animate, draw, or narrate something.  Their ideas are always so creative, and the results are very impressive.  This year's fourth grade group exceeded my expectations for what they planned and designed.  Enjoy looking at some of their projects:

Home-made Drum Set

Homemade Guitar

Digital Artwork

Lego Mindstorms Vehicle

Sphero Soccer programmed to cheer when the they make a goal

Interactive Games

Talking Zoo

Musical Marble Maze

Squishy Circuit Conductive Dough Game Controller

Battling Beasts with WeDo

Narrated T-Rex

Amazing what 9 Year Olds Can Do!

Recently the 3rd graders were working on choice projects based off of research using the Wonderopolis site.  I have decided that it is much more fun to teach research, note taking, citing sources, and effective searching when integrated with high interest topics and student choice both on topic and project type.  And this group in particular came up with some great projects!  Looking at them, it's hard to believe these are 9 year olds!

Here are just a few of their awesome projects:

Website Updated

Weve been fortunate to get all sorts of new goodies this year in the makerspace, thanks to generous grants from Donor's Choose, 3M, and our Summit School PTO.  As a result, our website, which is used for teaching, learning, planning, and project galleries, needed an upgrade.  And finally I can say that it is finished (till we get more new goodies and have to upgrade again!! - not a bad problem to have!)

Check it out!

Summit Makerspace