4th&5th Grade Makers and 3rd Grade programmers!

3D Printing with 5th Graders:

This week students designed little ball&maze trinket toys.  They used SketchUp to design their maze.  We printed them on a MakerBot, cut up silver clasp Ball chains (which we measured with a pair of calipers to size the maze), and used transparencies for the cover.  Many of them worked perfectly.  Many wanted to improve upon their design.  Way to go little mini-makers!

Make your own X-Box controller with 4th Graders:

These guys learned how to build buttons on a piece of cardboard fashioned in the style of an X-Box controller.  Students used a Makey-Makey kit to connect it all together and Scratch for the programming.  They created a very simple 2-player Maze game to test their controller out on.  On the last day, they played head-to-head matches with each other.  One week was definitely not enough time.  Game on!

Mini Programmers with 3rd Grade:

Students learned how to program sensors using LegoWeDo.  By the end of the week, students were programming their own cars, catapults, and trap-doors.  Everything was documented in their GoogleDrive accounts.  We are developing programmers!