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Monday, March 2, 2015

Beginning the Adventure




The adventure began in first grade today.  Students had so much fun and were so engaged with Dash and Dot!  Today's lesson was an introduction and opportunity for students to get to know the vocabulary we will be using in this unit.  After a quick demonstration, resulting  in "wows and giggles", I grouped students into 4 groups.  



Groups 1 and 2 worked with partners on labeling diagrams of Dash and Dot at their tables.


Groups 3 and 4 worked with the Path and Go apps in small groups to get to know some of the features of the robots.

After 7 minutes we switched so that each student labeled one diagram and had an opportunity to work with the Dot and Dash App.


We ended the day by talking about things Dash could do that Dot cannot and students shared their hopes for what they'd like to code Dash or Dot to do next week.

You can download the Dash and Dot Templates below.
Dot Diagram 
Dash Diagram