To continue our Gifts for the Gifted series of 2014, I would like to recommend a little robot that looks like a toy but has a lot of educational potential. I purchased a Sphero for my classroom late last May, and my students barely had time to unbox it before the school year ended. As … Read more
Since I have different grade levels each day, I have been doing Hour of Code all week. With my students I’ve done Hopscotch, Kodable, Robot Turtles, and several of the lessons on Code Studio. It has been an absolute blast! Yesterday, I asked my 4th graders to describe their feelings about their programming experience using … Read more
It’s Friday and it’s December, which means that it’s time for another “Gifts for the Gifted” post! I have posted about MaKey MaKey a few times, but I was surprised to look back and see that it didn’t make my Gifts for the Gifted series last year. This actually makes sense because I hadn’t used … Read more
Full disclosure: this first week of December is going to be my busiest week this year. Therefore, I decided to cheat a bit for a few days and recycle some posts from last year. I’ve done a bit of editing to make sure they remain current but otherwise they are the same. Hopefully you still … Read more
For this week’s “Gifts for the Gifted” post, I have another great product from ThinkFun. It’s called, “Shell Game.” The concept of the game is to place the colored hermit crabs under the shells as directed at the top of each challenge page. You are then supposed to slide the shells around (without peeking underneath) … Read more