2019 #VWEDU: MALET Virtual Showcase: The Space Project: STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school. By: Stacie Stewart

MALET Virtual Showcase: The Space Project:  
STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school:   
By: Stacie Stewart  

The Space Project was created to develop a cross curricular unit in a NYC public school that would integrate computer science and STEM with core subject areas.  This project was created and tested with a 3rd grade class and several gifted 2nd grade students.

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• STEM 
• We recently started using the Amplify Science curriculum.
• One of the units was themed around the Earth, moon and space.  
• "Starting with science, I looked for ways to expand the topic across other subjects."
• Project Website

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Expansion (cross curricular)

• Stories, read aloud, brought literacy,
• Students wrote fiction about life on Mars
• Makerspace materials and projects brought STEM,
• Legos, Green Screen, and Scratch brought computer science.

 The classes

• During each class, a challenge was presented to the students.  
• The challenge was open ended but they had a limited amount of resources.  
• They could use all the materials or just some – but no extra.
• The lessons were completed in class with the occasional direction of “color at home, re-write neatly at home”.  
• Since this unit is being developed as it is being taught it does have some bugs to work out – mostly with timing.
• Due to days off from school and state testing we have fallen slightly behind and the work is “under construction” but will be updated.  

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• Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
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• Project-based education could produce useful results for the learner and for society
• Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
• Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
• Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
• We are wired to innovate. Do Schools teach creativity?
• Problems and the seven gates to solving them. Like a game. Coincidence? Or something else?
• #VWEDU Malet Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century

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