This term we’ve been quite busy in STEAM! We’ve been considering the narratives of creatures at PHPS like possums and caterpillars. After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we have discussed needs and activities that living beings might carry out and then developed artistic representations of environments that would be conducive to life. Our goal will […]
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As part of our exploration of Planet PHPS, we examined maps of the school in STEAM to create a model that could be used with our robots. Students identified places that they knew and talked about activities that they did in those places using both the map and 3D model. After that we used robots to
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We had a great day today making art with robots…it allowed us to stay clean (for the most part). We applied paint to the canvas then using the Spheros created patterns, lines and shapes. Students were able to identify circles, triangles, and squares. Felix noted that there were smaller shapes that made up larger shapes.
For the last two weeks we’ve been looking at robotics and how it helps in exploration as part of our steam learning. So far we’ve used a Sphero to explore and map the school playground. We discussed familiar robots such as R2D2, BB8, and Wall-E and began to consider the functions of these machines. We’re
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