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Adaptive Controller
Adaptive Controller
My fifth grade students do a mini-unit that discusses adaptive technology as part of my larger Digital Literacy Unit. student spend time learning about what adaptive technology is and why people may need it. We discuss how being able to participate in activities with friends can change a person life.
Students use their knowledge of MakeyMakey to design and build an adaptive controller to play a video game. There are teams of 2-3 students and they have two class periods to complete the project. Then we invite special education specialists to come and test them out and talk to the students about the importance of assistive technology for people in all aspects of life.
3-5.CAS.c.4 Use critical thinking to explain how access to technology helps empower individuals and groups (e.g., gives them access to information, the ability to communicate with others around the world, allows them to buy and sell things).
Book Zoo
Book Zoo
Students in Grade 2-5 will collaborate to put together a “Book Zoo”. The 2nd Grade student will pick a book from the group and choose an animal to research from the book to research. Grades 2-4 will perform the research and create an artifact that will be shared in the Zoo. The 5th-grade team will create a form to gather information about the book from the other grades and create a book review based on their collected information. We will put the projects together and create a “Book Zoo.”
The Monster Project was a great teambuilding activity. It is based on the Monster Project that takes place globally every year. I adapted it so that my 12 classes grades 2-5 built a monster. Each class was given a body part to design and then describe in 2 sentences. From those sentences each class built their interpretation of those sentences. After the monster were all complete we unveiled them and the classes could see how each class built the body part from their description.
I hope to do this again and then put the monsters from each grade together and photograph using a green screen. that way I can create "postcards" from all over the world that the monsters could send to the students with clues to the location. We could then research to find the answer. I think it would be a great way to build research skills.
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