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Pack Your Bags Kids!

Pack Your Bags Kids!. You’re Off To School To Play With Lego! Presenter: Anthony Tait. Please contact me if you have any questions: tait.anthony.a@edumail.vic.gov.au. Overview. Robotics @ Caledonian Robotics and Curriculum Planning, Teaching and Assessing Competitions Playtime .

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Pack Your Bags Kids!

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  1. Pack Your Bags Kids! You’re Off To School To Play With Lego! Presenter: Anthony Tait Please contact me if you have any questions: tait.anthony.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

  2. Overview • Robotics @ Caledonian • Robotics and Curriculum • Planning, Teaching and Assessing • Competitions • Playtime

  3. Robotics @ Caledonian • Commenced 2010 • SFYSS Funding • Engaging and Authentic • Integrated Curriculum • Years 2-6

  4. 2012 Program • Years 2-4 (Lego WeDo) • Science hour – Terms 1 to 3 • Years 5-6 (Lego Mindstorms) • Science hour – Terms 1 and 2 • Robotics Club (Lego WeDo) • Years 2-6 – Lunchtime Term 4 • Robotics Competitions (Lego Mindstorms) • First Lego League • Robocup

  5. Robotics Across The Curriculum

  6. Teaching Robotics @ Caledonian • How is it planned? • How is it taught? • How is it assessed?

  7. Planning • Engage • Expectations and routines • Make learning intentions explicit • Set the ‘challenge’ • Explore • Students work in pairs or small groups to build, program and record findings • Teacher facilitates • Explain • Students demonstrate and explain their robot and findings to the class • Elaborate • Questioning and class discussion (link to Science and Maths content) • Modification and re-testing • Evaluate • Against learning intentions • ‘Findings’ worksheets • Teamwork rubric • Set new learning intentions and interpersonal or personal learning goals

  8. Teaching • Problem based • Teacher as facilitator • Co-operative learning • Peer teaching • Sharing

  9. Assessing • Worksheets • Teamwork Rubrics • Observation • Discussion • Projects

  10. Thanks • Sue Dixon – SacreCouer • Brian Thomas – Bellarine Secondary College • Rod White – Melbourne Grammar

  11. Resources • Suppliers • Moore Educational www.mooreed.com.au • Modern Teaching Aids www.teaching.com.au • HiTechnicswww.hitechnic.com • Competitions • Robocupwww.robocupjunior.org.au and www.robocup.org • First Lego League www.ausfll.org and www.firstlegoleague.org • Professional Development • Moore Educational and Modern Teaching Aids • Lego Engineering www.legoengineering.com • Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute www.ri.cmu.edu • Techxellent Training http://www.techxellenttraining.com.au • YouTube www.youtube.com

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