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Fixing what's Broken
Fixing what's Broken
August 30, 2022
Our students at Leestown Middle are getting life and engineering lessons in Mrs. French's STEM class using SPIKE Primes. Following the Broken lesson in the app, students used the Engineering Design Process to build a CNC machine that contains errors in the build. They are tasked to find and troubleshoot the 4 errors, fix those errors, and then choose to either build an upgraded CNC machine or create their own Troubleshooting Guide. They used this Broken EDP journal to document their processes.
2021-22 School Year
2021-22 School Year
20220407_080205_001_001.mp4Bringing LEGO to your MAkerspace
Bringing LEGO to your MAkerspace
April 7, 2022
Brenda Cowan Elementary Media Specialist Grace Cottam has made full use of the OIT Lending Library and also our Summer MASTER Class training to incorporate LEGO Education solutions into her makerspace. Students have participated in playful learning with BricQ Motion Essential, SPIKE Prime and now with their own set of SPIKE Essential kits.
SPIKE PRIME AT
SPIKE PRIME AT
Garden SPRINGS ELEMENTARY
Garden SPRINGS ELEMENTARY
February 3, 2022
Mrs. Kiely's 5th graders got the beats! Over a three-day period, they were able to build and code their Break Dance robots. Each period was 50 minutes, and students worked in groups of 3 - 4 with our Lending Library SPIKE Prime kits.
Mrs. Kiely had the students assigned to groups with numbers that matched their kit number and only had one chromebook open with the SPIKE Prime app. She originally had the lesson planned for two days, but suggests that especially when you first get started with downloading the app to the chromebook and the initial work with the build, you should add another day. Students already had class norms of how to work together - and Mrs. Kiely especially liked the bigger group dynamic given that students haven't had opportunities to work and collaborate together! A few of her groups were homogeneous and she was ready with differentiation for some of her students.
March 3, 2022
Ms. Kiely spent three days in her STEM Lab with her 5th graders with the Hopper Race. Students built and coded their Hopper and then created a prototype to improve the speed and distance of their Hopper!
SPIKE Prime at Henry Clay Hs
SPIKE Prime at Henry Clay Hs
October 2021
Michelle Samet, high school math teacher at Henry Clay High School, introduced LEGO's SPIKE Prime to her senior Probability and Statistics classes. Stretch with Data in the Training Trackers Unit for SPIKE Prime allowed her students to match graph values and analyze margins of error while learning about variables of yaw, pitch and roll. Students built their yoga ring with the SPIKE Prime hub to track their movement data as they perform a few yoga moves. The senior class used their coding knowledge from CS First and Scratch to program their ring in the SPIKE Prime App.
SPIKE PRIME HOPPER at LMS
SPIKE PRIME HOPPER at LMS
November 2021
Allison French, Leestown Middle School science teacher, wanted to incorporate her FCPS OIT MASTERClass from last summer into a competition project for LMS' STEM Night this past month. Students in her 7th grade science classes were tasked with the Hopper Race, a prototype-themed LEGO lesson using SPIKE Prime kits.
During class time and with LMS Media Specialist Claudette Edie's help, students used the SPIKE Prime app and the engineering design process (use our EDP journal) to code, build and race their Hopper robot, then prototype their Hopper with different legs that would make it faster. The only rule was they could not use wheels for locomotion! Check out the video from their STEM Night and pictures below.
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