Ms. Anderson's Exploration Technology Classroom
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Vinyl Cutter
I know some of my students enjoy drawing cartoons, letters, or just free drawing what comes to their mind. Vinyl cutter will allow children to showcase their art designs as big as they want to. They can create stickers, stencils, banners, and signs with this tool.
5.V.3 Create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes, safely and appropriately.
LEGO MINDSTORMS
What a better way to show that playing is a way that children learn. Legos are the one of the top toys used for creativity, but now it may be one of the top toys for robotics. Students can easily bring their aircrafts and space cars they've seen on television or read in books to life just by programming!
5.TT.1 Use technology tools and skills to reinforce and extend classroom concepts and activities.
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Digital Storytelling
W.6.4 Use digital tools and resources to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient word processing skills
Digital storytelling allows students to creatively produce their written work. These narratives can be for class assignments, poetry, or for free writing of stories. Students can recite their narratives through voice, text, images, audio, and video!
Makedo
5.V.2 Apply creative and critical thinking skills to artistic expression.
A fun and creative way to create and build with shoes boxes, gift boxes, and other cardboard boxes that you usually end up throwing away. Costumes, fortes, vehicles, toy houses, and more can be created with this cardboard kit!
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Rigamajig
We have innovative children walking past us daily who will be the next person to construct many buildings, ramps, railroads, and yes, even rollercoasters. This building kit is a collection of solid wooden planks, wheels, nuts, bolts and rope designed to engage in construction and blueprints. There is no wrong way to assemble these parts!
5.P.1 Understand force, motion and the relationship between them
The Exploratory lab features digital manufacturing tools that fosters the learning environment focused around making, collaborating, innovating, creating, and most of all having fun! There are no limitations to what our students can invent!
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