Last week we finished our first cycle of Station Work. What is Station Work, you might ask? Well, for our stations, we are exploring different subject areas in 15 minute increment. Last week, we worked on the station for Art and Music. At the Fundamental Skills station, we worked on vocabulary related to coding in Quizlet, and recorded our highest score in the "Match" game, took a 3 minute typing test to see how we far we are towards our typing SMART goals, and read a Readworks article related to music. At the Coding Station, we worked on our coding skills using www.code.org. The final station was an exploration station, and we explored different ways that you can use technology to create art and music. Two of the favorite websites from last week were Chrome Music Lab and www.bomomo.com.
This week, we are continuing to work in stations, but we are focusing on the Engineering Design Process. We again are exploring vocabulary, typing and reading comprehension at our Fundamental Skills station and working on coding in www.code.org to continue improving our coding skills. At our Exploration Station, however, we are working on using our research skills to learn about the 6 steps of the Engineering Design Process and showing what we learn by creating a Prezi. Have your student share their finished Prezi with you! You will be impressed.
Next week we will be exploring Robotics, a station that should be a lot of fun for our last week before break. I will hopefully get some great pictures of the students working with their robots that I can share!
