Grove Hill Elementary (Page County) 5th Grade Science Force, Motion, and Energy
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Denise Atkins, Amanda Rettig, and Kristen Atkins
Discovery of motion, speed, and friction using robots.
Grove Hill Elementary (Page County) Scientific Theory, reasoning and logic
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Amanda Rettig & Denise Atkins
This lesson combines fourth grade scientific, investigation, reasoning, and logic Standards of Learning with an introduction to robot programming.
intro-to-robotic-programming.doc
GPS in Social Studies - Archaeology and historic artifacts
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Amanda Rettig:
This lesson applies technological skills of the GPS device to recreate an archaeological dig in order for students to understand the importance of artifacts to history.
Springfield Elementary (Page County) Robotics - Science and Astronomy - Mars Mission
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Molley Cupp and Amanda Creedon
Students will build and program robot rovers to meet challenges on the Martian landscape.
robot-mars-mission.doc
Springfield Elementary (Page County) Robotics - Gears, Ratios, Torque, and Power
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Mollie Cupp and Amanda Creedon
Using the robot and its different size gears students will discover that gear ratio is all about leverage. Upon completion of this lesson, the learner will be able to apply a knowledge of how gears operate together to make our robot (or other machines) do work.
gears-ratio-lp.doc
gears-ration-explination-and-wks.doc
Springfield Elementary (Page County) GPS for Applied 5th Grade Science, Math, and Social Studies
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Amanda Creedon, Kat Spiker, Mollie Cupp and Judy Smallwood
The students will be completing decimal multiplication problems. Using this information and the products of these problems, the students will be navigating through their GPS receivers to mark or find waypoints.
gps-decimals-and-multiplication.doc
gps-decimals-and-multiplication-wks.doc
Springfield Elementary (Page County) GPS Intro - For 5th Grade Science, Math, and Social Studies
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Amanda Creedon, Kat Spiker, Mollie Cupp and Judy Smallwood
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the GPS and provide an overview covering what it is and how it works. We also want the students to become familiar with the technical lingo that we will be using later on in the week when we are actually using the technology in the field.
Springfield Elementary (Page County) GPS for Social Studies
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Amanda Creedon, Kat Spiker, Mollie Cupp and Judy Smallwood
This is the first time that the students will be doing a hands-on GPS activity. They will be performing various tasks that require them to use the different pages and functions of the GPS receiver. This will help them understand and gain a personal connection to the information provided during the introduction lesson.
gps-navagation-station-packet-lp.doc
navigation-station-packet-wks.doc
Advanced Geometry - 4th Grade
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Shannon Thacher:
The students have been pre-tested on Sol 4.15 and a group of them do not need to be working large group because they have mastered the content. During math for two days this group of 8 students will be working in teams to create a maze. Throughout the maze that the robot will need to travel through there will be lines, line segments, rays, and angles.
Geometry - Symmetry
Friday, March 27th, 2009Submitted by: Shannon Thacher:
The students have been studying symmetry and have all found the concept very challenging. I know how much they love working with the robot and will have them program the robot to create a symmetrical figure. We have been started our unit on geometry and knowing symmetry will help them to further their understanding of reflection.