Technology in 3rd Grade

Maker Mondays

• We have had 4 Maker Mondays where students have been introduced to new Technologies
  • Ozobots
    • Ozoblockly -- students follow puzzles within the Ipad App and then transfer the program to the Ozobot by calibrating it on the screen. The Ozobot then runs the program.
  • Hour of Code Week
    • Ozobots
    • Bitsbox
    • Code.org
  • Dash Robots
    • students completed challenges on Blockly for Dash Robots to learn hour to use scratch coding. This also can be transfered to Ozobots (drag and drop coding).
  • Cubelets
    • students explored and were introduced to Action and Sensing Cubelets -- where certain cubes would light up or move depending on the sesnsor cubelet and how close or far away and object is to the sensors.
• We are starting an amazing cross-curricular project where students will code on Bitsbox.com, and depending on the code they choose, they will then write a story about their coding and the characters in their coding project -- then they will illustrate in their Art Specials with Mrs. Sehnert and they will then create a online book with their writing, coding and illustrations.
  • they will be using the folliowing programs in their project
    • Screencastify
    • Google Doc/Drive
    • Bitxbox
    • Bookcreator

Cross Curricular Project

Students working on their code, and learning how to take a screen capture of their code and also record their screens as their code runs. Students also learned how to name documents, create a folder and move documents into that folder on their Google Drive.