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First, students will create their project management board to get ready for the work next week.
This year we are going to try using this graphic for teams to develop their team values and goals
You can learn more here - https://theteamcanvas.com/use/
This is what we will refer back to when we work with teams when things don't go as planned and help ground them in what they agreed to as a team.
This will help the team begin to formulate what they need to do next week. This helps with having something to discuss with their first daily stand up that we will begin using next week.
Reflection is crucial to this process so we must build in time for students to reflect on their learning and thinking this week. We will provide each student a copy of the document with these prompts for them to write on for us to see where they are in their thinking.
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LEGO Education Build To Launch
To help teams build some teamwork skills we will be using the Mission: STEAM Work is Teamwork found in Module 1. You don't need any specific LEGO kits as you can use anything you wish. Feel free to use regular LEGO or a robotics kit depending on what you have available and want to teach.
This could be a great way to add some robotics and coding if you wish to expand this portion of the learning.
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