WeDo 2.0 Lego Lab

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Today my partner, Brandy Slavinski and I began to prepare a lesson for our Lego Lab activity at Metro E later in the month. We found a lesson plan that we thought was interesting using the Lego Education WeDo 2.0 Kit, and begun to build our model, shown below. 



This model is the "Send Messages" Computational Thinking Lesson Plan which can be used in grades 1-5 at an Intermedate level. Once our model was completed using the Building Instructions, we were able to connect it through Bluetooth to the WeDo 2.0 Software Programming App.


After completing a short tutorial, we were able to create code for our robot model to send a message between the joystick and the programming application. Below is a screenshot of our coding sequence from the application. 


From the code we created, we were able to make our robot create sounds by different movements. With what we have done in class today, I believe that we would be using most prevalently the ISTE standard 5.4.b: "Design authentic learning activities that ask students to leverage a design process to solve problems with awareness of technical and human constraints and defend their design choices." 

Moreover, thinking of the question, "How can you envision addressing ISTE Computational Thinking standards in your explorations today?" I would say that I had an expectation of using the ISTE CT Standards "Learner" and "Designer" most throughout the activity, but I was surprised to see that all 5 Standards were applied. 





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