GRADE 5

Engineering Hydraulic Mazes with Cardboard

We designed, built, and tested hydraulic marble mazes with cardboard, hot glue, syringes, plastic tubes, and water.

Exploring Game Design and Circuits with Makey Makey and Scratch

We used Scratch and Makey Makey to create space-themed games. 

We started by coming up with a theme for our game, sketching out some playdough design ideas, and coding in Scratch. In our Scratch games, a spaceship needs to avoid asteroids (or some other object) and collect fuel. We needed to create variables (for health and speed) and clones. Here's what we started with. And here's a game about a shark avoiding trash that we used as inspiration for the space game.

Coding Loops with Sphero Indi

We did some coding with Sphero Indi and color cards to create an algorithm in which the robot doesn't stop. This repeated pattern is a loop.

Designing Digital Citizenship Posters with Adobe Express

Throughout the school year, we discuss strategies for staying safe online. At beginning of the year, we designed posters and social media images with advice for peers about how to handle challenging digital scenarios. These scenarious can occur on a computer, phone, tablet, or even gaming system.

Staying Safe and Kind on the Internet

We learned about digital citizenship with Interland, by discussing digital citizenship scenarios, and from a guest speaker from the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General.