legos: making the creative & collaborative connection
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Legos: Making the Creative & Collaborative Connection. Bobbi Luster Davidson Day School February 18, 2014. Agenda. “Hook” Activity – Lego Libs Goals Jr. FLL Examples for centers, incorporation into lessons, or supporting activities in Lib/Tech Lego Story Starter/Visualizer. Goals. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Legos: Making the Creative & Collaborative Connection
Bobbi LusterDavidson Day School
February 18, 2014
Agenda
• “Hook” Activity – Lego Libs• Goals• Jr. FLL• Examples for centers, incorporation into
lessons, or supporting activities in Lib/Tech• Lego Story Starter/Visualizer
Goals
1. Think about technology more broadly
2. Create & collaborate
3. Library/Technology team for support
What is Technology?
Any invention, including tools, machines, materials, techniques, and sources of power, that make people’s work easier.
Source: Discovery Education
Are these examples of technology?
• Car • Computer • Smartphone • Wheelchair• Sewing Machine
• Shoes - ??• Pens - ??• Legos - ??
Goals
1. Think about technology more broadly
2. Create & collaborate
3. Library/Technology team for support
Davidson Day School Mission
Davidson Day School is a diverse independent school that cultivates academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development.
Goals
1. Think about technology more broadly
2. Create & collaborate
3. Library/Technology team for support
Library/Tinker Lab Mission
Davidson Day School’s Library/Tinker Lab supports all aspects of our Lower School curriculum in which we enable students to:• use a variety of technology and understand
how it works; • innovate or create technology through
research and hands-on activities; • and, realize that technology helps to improve
lives or make work easier.
Why Legos?
• Every students already knows how to use Legos and is familiar with them.
• Can support a variety of learners, particularly those that may excel with hands-on activities.
• Not dependent on the student or teacher to learn how to use a piece of hardware or software (with exception of some Lego software).
• Not a budget-buster.
Jr. First Lego League
• Inspiration for this presentation
• Inquiry-based lesson that Lib/Tech currently supports
• Third grade:• Incorporates/builds on research skills introduced
in lib/tech earlier in the year and builds on simple machines lessons introduced in science.
• Creativity• Collaboration• Character Development
Could this be rolled out in truncated or expanded versions for other grades? ABSOLUTELY!
Ideas Abound…
Diorama constructionExamples:• 1st grade – animal projects• 2nd grade – weather• 3rd grade – animal projects or incorporate into game
building/Jumanji• 4th grade – U.S. region landscapes
Ideas Abound…
Word Families / Spelling / Capital & Lower Case/ Lego Libs• Builds on language arts work underway in current
classrooms• Lib/Tech currently supports this through the use of word
ladders and tablet applications (i.e. K and 1st)
Ideas Abound
Lego Libs
* Note the inclusion of parts of speech, proofreader marks & punctuation.
1.
2.*
Ideas Abound…
• Music – Blocks could be used to “build” songs.
Ideas Abound…
1x1 bricks could represent quarter notes or quarter rests. 2 – 1x1 or 1 – 1x2 could be a half note, etc.
Source: Ashley Queen http://elementarymusicresources.blogspot.com/p/my-smartboard-files.html
Ideas Abound
• Science/PE Relay: Lego Balloon Car
• Harder than it looks!!! Includes LOTS of opportunity for problem-solving!
• Simple machines• Stability – horizontal &
vertical• Measuring
Lego Story Starter
• Lego Story Starters / Story Visualizer
• hands-on brick building, story writing, photography and story or comic strip creation
• Could it be created without the software? YES!
Lego Story Starter
Source: Lego Education
Lego Story Starter
Source: Lego Education
Lego Story Starter
Lego Story Starter