This week begins my STEM rotations with my older grades (3-5). I’ve got all my iPads ready to control my robots and things. Monday was a little shaky, but I added some additional stations so I would have smaller groups. Tuesday and Wednesday have went well.
Here are the stations:
- Classkick assignment on close reading using the Logitech crayons that we recently received (5th grade). Third and fourth grade students at station 1 are working on Makey Makeys in my adjacent computer lab.
- Dot robot using the Blockly app
- Dash robot using the Blockly app
- Sphero
- Sphero
- Little Bits circuitry kit
- Flipgrid videos on appropriate/inappropriate use of technology (this was inspired by recent events… enough said)
- Merge cube apps (Mr. Body and Galactic Explorer) with an assignment for students on Classkick
- Stop Animation with Stikbots using the Koma Koma app
- Green screen with Legos & Koma Koma (waiting on the Green Screen by Do Ink to be purchased for this iPad)
I have two or three students in each group, so that has worked well. However, it has been very busy. I have robots zooming over here, there, I’m helping a kit with the circuitry kits, another needs help logging into Flipgrid… needless to say, by the end of this I am worn out.
Kindergarten, first, and second grade have been working with the Words and Numbers Osmo apps. They have really enjoyed these activities. I really need a couple more Osmos because my groups are just a little too big. I have six bases, but one of my first grade classes is huge as a SPED class joins them. I have 34 kids in there and it is just a little too zoo-ish.
Needless to say, my stations for 3-5 will last quite a while. However, I’ll break it up sometimes. I won’t go ten straight weeks with these activities. I also have a Friday rotation, so I end up seeing each class an extra day on Fridays. This will help me get through it a little bit quicker.
We had a superhero day last Friday for childhood cancer awareness. My ITRT needed a shirt, so I whipped one up with my Cricut.
