SWLSB+Classroom+Projects


 * BCT-SWLSB Collaborative Classroom Projects 2012-2013 **
 * **Robotics at Arundel!**

This year, as part of the Building Community through Telecollaboration (BCT) project, Catherine Bouchard the kindergarten teacher and the resource teacher, Amanda Murdoch worked together to implement a kindergarten robotics program for the first time. Using the Lego Education WeDo Robotics kit, our kindergarten students embarked on a journey to bring robots to life.

Using the Robotics in Kindergarten LES created by Mme Dufour we set out on our project. This year, Mme Dufour also created an online learning community through LEARN Quebec to facilitate the process of implementing a kindergarten robotics program. In the evenings, we were able to collaborate online through ZenLive with other teachers across Quebec. We learned how to teach students the concept of robotics, how to build a robot and how to program the robots using the software provided.

Armed with our new knowledge of robotics, we were ready to start! The students quickly learned through experiential lessons to define which objects were robots and which objects were not robots. They practiced building robots from a variety of materials and soon were ready to use the WeDo robotics kit. We were amazed at how well our students were able to use the visual directions to build the crocodile robot with the correct pieces. We were finally ready to program our robots! Using the SMART Board to model how to program, the students quickly learned how to program the robot to open and close his mouth at different speeds and directions. It was so fun watching their amazement grow! They were now ready to program their own robots and are quickly becoming robotics experts!!

A big thank you to the BCT lead team for giving us the time to collaborate and the support we needed to build and implement our collaborative project. (Published in the Laurier News, June 2013)

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 * **Through the Eyes of the Characters (Grade 4 - Ms. Arhin's Class)**


 * BCT-SWLSB Collaborative Classroom Projects 2011-2012 **

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 * **The Living Erasers (Mr. Lento's Project)**
 * **Ms. Arhin's Class Voice Thread**


 * **Ms. Tsimiklis' Grade 2 Class Blog: @http://mrstsimiklis.blogspot.ca/**


 * **Ms. Hodge`s Grade 6 Poetry Voice Thread: @http://arundel.schoolqc.ca**