SHTEAM Learning
We are diving in to math, science, and engineering this week. The 7th Grade Ancient Civilization teachers introduced me to coding with Sphero . They have successfully used the program with their students. this year After learning about chariots in class the students made chariots and raced them after coding little spherical robots that are used as the horse. The kids had a lot of fun, and I tried it with my Language Support-Historians shortly after. I was more than a little nervous, but it really was a great experience. One of these 7th Grade teachers is also a US History teacher and discovered an activity that would bring coding into US History, too. After we studied the impact of the geography on the settlers, we decided to enhance this learning and try Sphero with our 8th Graders for the first time. Student Historians are building a 4 wheel, 2 axle Conestoga wagon and coding the 8 parts of the Trail. Creating a project of this magnitude from 1 small class to 4 large classes is da