Makerspace Exploration Begins in the Media Center - Computer Science Week - Unplugged, "My Robotic Friends"

Traveling Circuits: Robot Friends Video
https://hourofcode.wiki.dublinschools.net/Unplugged+High+School

Traveling Circuits: My Robotic Friends (Information and Instructions)
http://csedweek.org/files/CSEDrobotics.pdf 

My Robotic Friends (Demonstration from Act Out Games)
You Tube (staff must login to computer to view You Tube Videos)


http://travelingcircuits.blogspot.com/2012/12/30-minute-my-robotic-friends-k-12.html

Traveling Circuits: My Robotic Friends (Binary)
http://code.org/files/CSEDbinary.pdf

Once students complete their coding assignment, he or she will have an opportunity to explore other Makerspace Kits including but not limited to:

Lego 

Goldi blox

Makey/Makey and other circuit kits

Spider and other robot kits

Sphero Robot Ball

& More

Teachers interested in these kits to use in their classroom should contact the media specialist.

Aviator’s Club will meet Wednesday, Oct 31.

Sign-up online at: https://goo.gl/forms/CrOSYVHnhVeEkCJm2

 

About: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nt_ENSrCCYnW79H8IZgjPtnDRPr_pEod/view?usp=sharing

Destination Imagination Resources

Team Challenges Synopsis (Be sure to download full document as well)
http://www.destinationimagination.org/challenge-program/2018-19-challenge-previews/
(videos may need access to YouTube, see your teacher at school)





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Duties of a Team Manager
https://www.destinationimagination.org/blog/10-team-manager-duties/


How to Organize a DI Team Meeting  (#Let the Team Make the Decisions=Facilitate)

see DI YouTube

Note: Open meetings with Ice Breaks/Team Building Activities
-Activities from weareteachers.com:
*Applause, Please (Think find ___, getting hot; getting cold but instead use applause)
*All My Friends (Filling in the blank: I enjoy ___, person with same interest swtich with someone in the group, person without a switch, goes in the middle and says "All my friends and starts fill in the blank again
*Hey, Me Too (variation of above using auction paddles)
*Common Ground (4 corners = Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree; students together in the middle; designee reads statement; students go to the corner that expresses their opinion)
*Body Parts (teacher calls body part- example: 4 knees; students form a group of four students nearest them to join together 4 knees- new partners for each call)
see site for more including;*Detective  and *Storytelling Round-Robin

Parent/Team To Do
1-Each Team Member/Family Give Team Managers a Calendar of Other Obligated Dates
2-


About Instant Challenge (Parent Help Needed, email request sent to 1 team)

https://www.destinationimagination.org/blog/instant-challenge-practice-ideas/    &
https://www.destinationimagination.org/blog/how-does-an-instant-challenge-work/
-team should create a check-list using these sources (Pre-During-Post IC's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMTmcEF-CHo (must be logged in on school computer as staff)

FHSA Online Resources and CALS Tech Cards 2018-19

Lego Challenge Sign up

Click here to sign-up:   Sign-Closed 11.5.2018 (See Mrs. Williams for questions)

Media Squad Explores the Sphero With Visitor From CALS

Highlights from the School Live Feed
http://www.forestheightsstem.com/live_feed#lf_194372

Details Coming Soon!!!!
Thank you Ms. Deidre from CALS

Ask about how classes can check-out the FHSA Maker Sphero Kit with help from Media Squad.


Resources
Getting Started With Sphero (Staff Login Required)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpSUqjtrRk 

Forest Heights Students Visit Washington, D.C.

Photo 1, 2, and 3 of Forest Heights Students
at the World War II Memorial-Washington, DC

Students from Forest Heights visited sites in Washington, D.C. including a special study of the Tuskegee Airmen exhibit at the Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture. Students were tasked to create an online map/journal of their experience to share with Forest Heights and other school partners of the Milton P. Crenchaw Aviation Training Academy by invitation of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society-Arkansas Chapter.

Highlights of the trip included visits to:

WWII Memorial 

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

White House or US Capitol (participants selected)

Drive through Embassy Row and Georgetown

Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture

Lincoln Memorial

View of the Washington Monument from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Marine Memorial

Air Force Memorial

Museum of the Bible

Howard University

African-American Civil War Memorial and Museum

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Museum (Stauton, VA)

Click here to find out more about visits to these sites from a student created group map and photographs.

Check back here to view individual maps as names appear hyperlinked:

Deandra W. - 4th Grade

Miriam A. - 6th Grade

Esther K. - 6th Grade

Allison B. - 6th Grade

Precious A. - 7th Grade

Eric E. - 7th Grade

Anna B. - 7th Grade

Chaperones: D. Williams, C. Belin, and S. Miller

Special thanks to AAHGS members (especially Mrs. Tamela Tenpenny Lewis and chaperones), cooperating administrators/faculty/staff, parents/grandparents, family, friends, and community members who helped make this trip possible. It was a once in a lifetime learning experience for all participating students and adults.