Work with Talented and Gifted students on robotics program.
At the end of the 2010 school year, the fourth graders in
the talented and gifted program use the Lego Mindstorms Robotics program. The
TAG teacher was new and had never used the robotics kits. So I went in and
helped her the first few times with her students so she did not have to do the
whole project on her own. With the help of “how stuff works” website we were
able to show the students what they were about to accomplish. I helped the
students get their kits set up and was there as an extra set of adult
supervision. It was important to let the children problem solve and follow the
specific directions they received with their kit. It was interesting to see the
students’ personalities show during this group project. Each group had a
leader, programmer, designer, etc. By the end of the unit, it was amazing to
see the robots and how the students had programmed the robots to run. It was
fantastic to see how capable nine and ten year old children are when they
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