Grade 2 - Introducing 2nd Graders to the world of ROBOTICS!

The 2nd graders put their knowledge of simple machines to work and set out to create Lego robots! Students built the robots by working together and using the LegoWeDo Education software. The software and Lego kits introduce children to robotics, engineering, and programming. The robots have working motors and sensors and each one has a simple machine moving its parts. They have been shipped off to Mrs. Griller's computer room, ready for programming.  The children were so excited to bring these creations to life!  Here are the amazing engineers at work:

First Grade Engineers! Bridge Building

I am so proud of my first grade engineers! I presented them with a story I wrote about gnomes trying to solve a big problem: they must get from their village into town in order to sell their vegetables. There is a large lake separating the village & town.  Engineers are needed to design & build bridges for the gnomes. I wrote this lesson plan to meet the NGSS engineering standard for first grade:

Before we began designing & building, we examined the structure of many well known bridges to determine what each bridge had to have:

Everyone's favorite bridge seemed to be Tower Bridge:

Everyone made a fantastic bridge! All bridges had to meet 2 important criteria: the bridge must span the lake and it must be able to accomodate 2 gnomes at a time. I used my classroom green screen to put grade 1C into gnomeland:

The first graders worked so hard on their bridges! I love seeing their fantastic creations!! Here are photos of grade 1C's bridges, they finished today. I will post grade 1Q as soon as their bridges are complete!

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