Fall 2020
Scratch Story Making Zoom Hour
Week 1. September 10.
Introductions - Animate your name demo - Students work, play, get help - Show & Tell
For next week, remix steve-in-motion
Week 2. September 17.
Name-in-Motion, click on steve-in-motion, then sign in to scratch and click remix
Great shares from Rosalita, Destiny, Emily and Michael
Week 3. September 24.
We began the story-telling phase to share our personal stories in scratch.
Great shares from Destiny, Levi & Michael.
Week 4. October 1.
We saw our stories become richer, with more content and action.
Week 5. October 8.
Following great shares from Michael and Levi we learned
we learned to make our storyteller glide,
we learned that broadcast could help us time, or coordinate, the action, and
we learned to loop actions (like costume changes) that we wish to repeat
Spring 2020.
STEAM Salazar
Directors: Aiofe Runyan, Digital Learning Coach, Salazar Elementary
Scott Hauenstein, The Masters Program at SFCC
Melany Cordova and Steve Cox, Northern New Mexico College
Groups: 1 teacher, 1 college mentor and 2 or 3 high school mentors
Lunch Times
K-1 11:30-12
2 11:50-12:20
3 10:45-11:15
4 10:55-11:25
5 11-11:30
6 11:25-11:55
March 13th, 2020
Grade 6. 10:00 - 11:25 Mrs Salazar Robot Teams in Gym
10:00 - 11:25 Mrs Montoya Coding in their classroom Microbits
Grades 3rd - 5th.
In Class times vary according every teacher
Lesson Plan programming with Makey Makey or Microbits
11:30 - 12:00: Mentor lesson/project preparation
Noon - 1:00 pm: Lunch for Mentors
1:00 - 2:00 pm: teacher/mentor PD/planning grades Kinder to 2nd & 6th
March 6th, 2020
Grade 6. 10-11:25. Robot Teams in Gym
10:00 - 11:25 Coding in their classroom Microbits
1-2. Planning. 6th Grade Teachers with Edwin & Josef in Library.
Grades 3rd - 5th.
In Class 10:30 -11:30 am Programming with Bee-Bots
11:30 - 12:00: Mentor lesson/project preparation
Noon - 1:00 pm: Lunch for Mentors
1:00 - 2:00 pm: teacher/mentor PD/planning grades 3-6th
February 28, 2020
Grade 6. 10-11:25. Robot Teams in Gym.
1-2. Planning. 6th Grade Teachers with Edwin & Josef in Library.
Grades 3rd - 5th.
In Class 10:30 -11:30am. Makey Makey or Micro-bit..
11:30 - 12:00: Mentor lesson/project preparation
Noon - 1:00 pm: Lunch for Mentors
1:00 - 2:00 pm: teacher/mentor PD/planning grades Kinder to 2nd & 6th
February 21, 2020
Grades K-2.
In Class 10:30 -11:30am. Bee Bots.
11:30 - 12:00: Mentor lesson/project preparation
Noon - 1:00 pm: Lunch for Mentors
1:00 - 2:00 pm: teacher/mentor PD/planning grades 3-5
Grade 6.
10:00 - 11:25. Robot Teams in Gym.
1:00 - 2:00. Planning. 6th Grade Teachers with Edwin & Josef in Library.
February 14,
Grade 6. 10-11:25. Robot Teams in Gym.
1-2. Planning. 6th Grade Teachers with Edwin & Josef in Library.
Grades 3rd - 5th.
1 hour in class - 3-5, Makey/Makey II or preferred activity to target circuits
1 hour mentor training
1 hour lunch
1 hour teacher/mentor PD/planning grades K-2, plan for squishy II
February 7,
Grade 6. 10-10:30. Mini-lesson in Library. Steve Cox
RoboRave Rally at Northern New Mexico College, Saturday March 7, 9am-3pm
RoboRave Competition in Albuquerque May 8 and 9.
a-MAZE-ing Challenge Rules
Line Following Challenge Rules
Instructional Video with Resources
LineFollow Code for NXT and Video of Small Loop Following
SumoBot Challenge Rules
Grades K-2. In Class 10-11am. Squishy Circuits.
11-Noon: Mentor lesson/project preparation, Makey-Makey
Noon-1pm: Lunch for Mentors
1-2pm: teacher/mentor PD/planning grades 3-5, Makey-Makey
January 31,
Grade 6. 10am-11:25. Robots in Gym.
11:25-Noon. Mentor development of code for next week.
Noon-1pm: Lunch for Mentors
1pm-2pm. Work with at least one 6th grade teacher on plan for next week.
Grades 3-5. 10am until lunch their lunch time (see above).
Each Mentor works with 4 to 5 students. Activity, introduction to Makey-Makey.
Draw (graphite pencil) or make (paper/cardboard/markers/glue/foil) art circuits to hook up to Makey-Makey.
Connect to scratch if time.
11am-Noon: Mentor Training in Squishy Circuits (lead by Aiofe, assisted by Melany).
Noon-1pm: Lunch for Mentors
1-2pm: Mentor Training, Slides from Aiofe Runyan
Fall 2019
Salazar Elementary STEAM Fridays, starting September 13,
Mentors: 8 NNMC students, 16 High School students from the Masters Program at SFCC
10am-Noon: In class modeling of CS activities
Noon-1pm: Free time
1-2pm: Small group professional development with Teachers.
Groups
3a - Miqui Hernandez, room 4 3b - Kathy Tafoya, room 2
Travis Moore Jennifer Life
Jayla LeRouge and Faber Osorio Andree Alvarado and Victor Gavia
4a - Laura Acacio, room 17 4b - Lisa Gordon, room 18
Ka - Norma Carmona, room 5 2 - Sandra Friedrichs, room 8
Edwin Felter Daniel Brose
Jasmin Chacon & Abigail Rios Sally Liu and Lexi Valdez
5a - Joyce Sanchez, room 21 5b - Natalia Jacquez, room 23
1a - Paulina Salvador, room 12 1b - Darlene Fortier, room 10
Levi Abert Antonia Martinez,
James Santillanes & Omar Chavez Fernanda (Maria Lozoya) and Carlos G. Perez
6a - Theresa Montoya, room 20 6b - Susana Salazar
3a&b - Kb - Beverly Fornaciari, room 7
Josef Weese Carrie Hamilton
Carlos Perez & Teo Heitzman Jasmyn Santos and Jaxcyn Nofzinger
Mentor etiquette: prompt, dependable, positive, respectful - avoid typing for students, avoid phone, avoid headphones, no sitting.
Transportation: Josef+Edwin, Carrie+Antonia, Steve+Levi+Jennifer. Daniel direct. Travis direct.
September 13, Introductions, Scratch Accounts, remix mentor remix of steve-in-motion
September 20,
Meet in Library at 10am for orientation by Salazar Principal, Ms. Skoglund
Until Noon: Go to same classroom as last week (assignments above) continue remix of name-in-motion and then, time permitting, remix frog-catcher, go to lunch with kids in cafeteria, play
Noon-1pm: free time
1-2pm: Reassemble in Library at teams in your teams (2 TMP, 1 NNMC + 2 Sal teachers, the one you are working with plus one from K-2). Work through name-in-motion in small group, then join large group discussion on the promises and challenges of integrating scratch into lesson plans.
September 27,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in K-3 classrooms, as listed above. Josef, Carlos & Teo please help out in 3rd grade (perhaps 2 in the larger section and 1 in the smaller).
For 3rd grade content I have expanded the frog-catcher into salazar-sea-chase. I would use this as a target, try to get them to code it. The "new" idea is score keeping. To do that they begin in the code tab for a sprite, click on Variables, then Make variable, call it score, and choose sprite only. It then provides you with code blocks to initialize and increment your variable.
For grades K-2 please explore Scratch Jr on the tablets with each student - perhaps sitting in small groups. Work on motion, and word bubbles, and backdrops and possibly multiple sprites.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Small group work and scratch with all teachers in library.
October 4,
10am-Noon. Field Trip to Round House to celebrate last year's Salazar/TMP joint.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Small group work with micro:bits with 3-6 teachers in library.
October 11,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in grade 3-6 classrooms. This can look different depending on your classroom.
Continue in scratch, adding to salazar-sea-chase
Continue in scratch, have students build a biography of themselves or family member along the lines of Roxanne Swentzell. To build a biography they must storyboard and script and storyteller across multiple backdrops.
Move into micro:bits, though many students are not able to download their hex files due to improper routing of their work (we are working on this).
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Small group work with Scratch Jr with K-2 teachers and Scratch with grade 3 teachers in library.
October 18, No TMP HS mentors.
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in grade K-3 classrooms.
For grades K-2, Suggested project: Module 1 in the Tufts Curriculum.
For grade 3, Continue in scratch, have students build a biography of themselves or family member along the lines of Roxanne Swentzell. To build a biography they must storyboard and script and storyteller across multiple backdrops.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Small group work Lesson Planning with grade 3-6 teachers in library.
October 25. No School
November 1,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in grade 3-6.
Grades 3-5. Classrooms. Continue in scratch, embark on the Abuela project.
Grade 6. Both classrooms meet in library. Embark on LEGO NXT robots. Set up tracks and laptops and program!
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. STEAM acitivites, all teachers.
November 8,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in grade K-3 classrooms (continue with Tufts Curriculum). One feature of that curriculum is that many things can be acted out "physically" before moving to the tablet. This could help with a point raised by Beverly; 90 minutes is a very long time for a single activity for kids this young. The challenge is to integrate scratch (or other STEAM technologies we sampled last Friday) into on-going activities Both 6th grade classes with robots in library - with Josef, Teo, Carlos Perez, Scott & Steve.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Small group work Lesson Planning with grade 3-6 teachers in library. Regarding the Abuela project, consider Jennifer's ideas on students interviewing each other, and Travis' work on presenting his future self.
November 15,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in scratch in classrooms in grade 3-5. Both 6th grade classes with robots in Gym.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Small group work with Scratch Jr with K-2 teachers (continue with Tufts Curriculum) and Scratch Abuelas with grade 3 teachers in library.
November 22,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in grade K-3 classrooms. Josef's team and both 6th grade classes in gym with robots.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. PD led by Natalia Jacquez in library.
November 29, No School
December 6,
10am-Noon. Mentor groups in grade 3-5. 6th grade robotics in gym.
Noon-1pm. Free time.
1pm-2pm. Planning for next semester.
January 10
January 17
January 24, No School
January 31,
Spring 2019
Pojoaque Valley Middle School
Animating History with Scratch
Theme: Interactive Biographies of New Mexicans
7th Grade New Mexico History Class, all 6 periods, alternate Fridays starting September 7
PVMS Teacher: Roxanne Valdez, Room 303
Periods:
1. 7:30-8:32
3. 9:38-10:30
4. 10:35-11:27
5. 12:04-12:56
6. 1:01-1:53
7. 1:58-2:50
Undergraduate Mentors: Edwin Felter and Melany Cordova
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Lesson 1, February 1. Run and remix the Rose Simpson Starter by adding at least one new scene: with new backdrop, new motion and new information.
Lesson 2, February 15,
Lesson 3, March 1
Hernandez Elementary
6th Grade Math and Science
Theme: Robotics
Hernandez Teacher; Maxine Ortiz, 1:30-3:00pm
Lesson 1, February 8
Lesson 2, February 22
Lesson 3, March 8 (Cox away)
Fall 2018
Pojoaque Valley Middle School
Directions from Northern: South on 84/285, turn right at light at bottom of hill on CR 103
then immediate left on Grazing Elk. Then left at stop sign then right at last school entrance
just before underpass. Rooms 303 and 304 are in main building just to your right.
Animating History with Scratch
Theme: Interactive Maps of New Mexico
7th Grade New Mexico History Class, all 6 periods, alternate Fridays starting September 7
PVMS Teacher: Roxanne Valdez, Room 303
Periods:
1. 7:30-8:32
3. 9:38-10:30
4. 10:35-11:27
5. 12:04-12:56
6. 1:01-1:53
7. 1:58-2:50
Undergraduate Mentors: Edwin Felter, Daniel Vigil, Casimiro Fresquez
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Lesson 1, September 7. Complete STEM survey. Login to new scratch account. Run and remix NMHighways by adding more cities to Scratchy's tour.
Lesson 2, September 21. Complete NMHighways by adding more cities to Scratchy's tour and run and remix NMRivers.
Lesson 3, October 5. Run and remix NM Tewa Starter by coding our runner to the 5 other Tewa pueblos.
Lesson 4, October 19. Run and remix Maria Martinez Starter by coding three additional backdrops of Maria's family.
Lesson 5, November 2, Run and remix Voz de la Gente Starter by coding the rest of this poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Hernandez Elementary
6th Grade Math and Science
Theme: Robotics
Hernandez Teacher; Maxine Ortiz, room xxx, 1:30-3:00pm
Alternate Fridays starting September 14
Undergraduate Mentors: Edwin Felter, Josef Weese, Casimiro Fresquez, Ayleen Fiero and Aldous Alemania
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Lesson 1: September 14. Build a LEGO robot.
Lesson 2: September 28. Programming around an obstacle.
Lesson 3: October 12. Programming around an obstacle.
Lesson 4: October 26. Programming the real maze.
Spring 2018
Dixon Elementary
Robotics Club, Mondays 3-4:30 in the Community Center
Mentors: Travis Martinez and Steve Cox
Pojoaque Valley Middle School
Animating History with Scratch
Theme: Interactive Biographies of great New Mexicans
7th Grade New Mexico History Class, all 6 periods, alternate Fridays starting January 26
PVMS Teacher: Roxanne Valdez, Room 303
Periods:
1. 7:30-8:32
3. 9:38-10:30
4. 10:35-11:27
5. 12:04-12:56
6. 1:01-1:53
7. 1:58-2:50
Undergraduate Mentors: Lynette Baca, Desiree Sandoval and Josef Weese
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Lesson 1, January 26: Explore and remix Roxanne Swentzell.
Lesson 2, February 9: Each student will Story Board their subject and then collect online assets (images, sounds and text) and then execute in Scratch.
Lesson 3, February 23: Develop assets and scripts for first biography.
March 9: Spring Break I at PVMS, no class
March 23: Teacher/Parent Conferences
April 6: Spring Break II
April 20: PARC Testing
Lesson 4, May 4:
Animating Mathematics with Scratch
Themes: Games, Puzzles and Mazes
7th Grade Math Class, all 6 periods, alternate Fridays starting January 19
PVMS Teacher: Victoria Naranjo, Room 304
Periods:
1. 7:30-8:32, Prof. Torres
2. 8:37-9:29, Prof. Torres
3. 9:38-10:30, Prof. Cox
4. 10:35-11:27, Prof. Cox
5. 12:04-12:56, Prof. Nandy
7. 1:58-2:50, Prof. Nandy
Undergraduate Mentors: Lynette Baca, Desiree Sandoval and Josef Weese
Northern Faculty: Ashis Nandy, David Torres and Steve Cox
Lesson 1, January 19, Explore and remix PVMS Multiplies (in particular build a divides game by asking for x*y/y, see PVMS Divides for my answer).
Also ask them to work over a larger range of numbers, including negatives. Then challenge them to customize images and sounds.
Lesson 2, February 2, Explore and remix Math Maze PVMS 7 (in particular add and control three obstacles as in Math Maze PVMS 7r, note that
the positioning of the obstacles takes some care (use can use trial and error or choose to center your obstacle within costumes after you
have drawn it (the latter is specially helpful for the swinging gate).
Lesson 3, February 16, Add a 2nd level to the Maze, where now the player must solve division problems. See my Math Maze PVMS 7r2 for guidance.
The key new idea is to "broadcast" next level (to hide obstacle sprites from level one and to start level 2 script for scratchy).
Lesson 4, March 1, Play and Explore PVMS Pong, have them remix to ask Algebra questions along the way, with PVMS Pong Algebra as our initial goal.
Then mix in a helper as in PVMS Pong Algebra with Hints. As usual we build to the target - rather than simply revealing it.
March 16, NNMC spring break
March 30, Good Friday
Lesson 5, April 13
April 27, Career Day
May 11, RoboRave
Robotics Club, starts January 22
Mondays 3-4pm, Room 304,
PVMS Teacher: Victoria Naranjo
Undergraduate Mentors: Antonio Martinez, Nery Martinez, Travis Martinez, Daniel Vigil
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Week 1: January 22. Review Jousting Rules, build jousters and experiment with line following program.
Espanola Valley High School
MESA Class of Ms. Salero, Room 503, Wednesdays 11:40am-12:30pm
Mentors: Desiree Sandoval, Laura Romero and Steve Cox
Week 1: February 7, Introduction to Arduino
Week 2: February 14, Basic Hardware for Security Light
Week 3: February 21, Circuit and Software for Security Light
Week 4: February 28, Debug last week's circuit and add a speaker and Tone Code.
Fall 2017
Pojoaque Valley Middle School
Animating History with Scratch
7th Grade New Mexico History Class, all 6 periods, alternate Fridays starting August 25
PVMS Teacher: Roxanne Valdez, Room 303
Periods:
1. 7:30-8:32
3. 9:38-10:30
4. 10:35-11:27
5. 12:04-12:56
6. 1:01-1:53
7. 1:58-2:50
Undergraduate Mentors: Ronald Weese, Desiree Sandoval and Florian Castillo
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Lesson 1, August 25:
Take STEM Survey
Open new scratch accounts.
Go to My Classes (under username drop down menu).
Go to Studios and Play and Explore nmtour
Lesson 2, September 8: Explore and remix nmfloat by adding at least one river
Lesson 3, September 22: Explore and remix nmtewa by helping the messenger reach 5 more pueblos
Lesson 4, October 6: Explore and remix nmtriple by visiting your last three projects and loading their
sprites, scripts, sounds, and images into your scratch backpack. Unload these into nmtriple so that
you may offer your viewer a choice of three complete tours.
Lesson 5, October 20, No School
Lesson 6, November 3: Revisit Lesson 4 due to lack of connectivity on October 6.
Lesson 7, November 17: We have unloaded our backpack into NM Triple, we must now organize
backdrops, scripts, costumes and sounds to play at the right time and place.
Lesson 8, December 1
Lesson 9, December 15
Animating Mathematics with RoboBlockly
7th Grade Math Class, all 6 periods, alternate Fridays starting September 1
PVMS Teacher: Victoria Naranjo, Room 304
Periods:
1. 7:30-8:32, Prof. Torres
2. 8:37-9:29, Prof. Torres
3. 9:38-10:30, Prof. Nandy
4. 10:35-11:27, Prof. Nandy
5. 12:04-12:56, Prof. Cox
7. 1:58-2:50, Prof. Cox
Undergraduate Mentors: Ronald Weese, Desiree Sandoval and Florian Castillo
Northern Faculty: Ashis Nandy, David Torres and Steve Cox
Lesson 1, Robot Paving of PVMS on the (x,y) grid, September 1
Lesson 2, Robot Integer Arithmetic, September 15
Lesson 3, Robot Fractions, September 29
Lesson 4, October 13, No School
Lesson 5, October 27
Lesson 6, November 10, No School
Lesson 7, November 24, No School
Lesson 8, December 8
Robotics Club, starts November 6
Mondays 3-4pm, Room 304,
PVMS Teacher: Victoria Naranjo
Undergraduate Mentors: Josef Weese, Lynette Baca, Joselinn Rascon, Antonio Martinez
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Week 1: Introductions of people, robots and activities
Week 2: Learn how to navigate the file system and read port values on brick (LEGO Brain). Build Jousters.
Week 3: Review Jousting Rules, build jousters and experiment with line following program.
Spring 2017
Pojoaque Valley Middle School
Robotics Club, Mondays 3-5pm,
PVMS Teachers: Jessica Saiz and Camille Ulibarri
Undergraduate Mentors: Ron Weese, Desiree Sandoval, Florian Castillo
High School Mentors: Josef Weese
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
7th Grade Life Science Class, Thursdays and Fridays
PVMS Teacher: Monica Koski
Undergraduate Mentors: Joshua W Trujillo, Demetria Clichee, Alyssa Valdez, Anelisia Pena, Jessica McNett, John Archuleta
Northern Faculty: Brenda Linnnell and Anthony Sena
Espanola Valley High School
Algebra Assistance, Mondays and Wednesdays
EVHS Teachers: Nenette Juarez and Ian Cainglet
Undergraduate Mentors: Desiree Sandoval, Ened McNett
Northern Faculty: Ana Vasilic and David Torres
Geometry & 3D printing, Fridays
EVHS Teachers: Nenette Juarez and Ian Cainglet
Undergraduate Mentors: Melany Rodriguez-Bernal and James McKeough
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Fall 2016
Pojoaque Valley Middle School
Robotics Club, Mondays 3-5pm,
PVMS Teachers: Jessica Saiz and Camille Ulibarri
Undergraduate Mentors: Ron Weese, Amanda Trujillo, Joshua J Trujillo, Joseph Fresquez
High School Mentor: Josef Weese
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox
Espanola Valley High School and McCurdy School
SuperComputing Challenge Teams, Wednesdays 3:30-4:45
McCurdy Teacher: Melissa Berryhill
Undergraduate Mentors: Desiree Sandoval, Florian Castillo, Joseph Fresquez
Community Mentor: Josephine Kilde
Northern Faculty: Steve Cox