{"id":1118,"date":"2017-11-07T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2017-12-30T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T00:24:57","slug":"rolling-around-the-world-with-sphero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Around the World with Sphero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This term Year 4 were working on the NSW Geography outcome\u00a0 GE2-1 examines features and characteristics of places and environments. In Library I wanted them to focus on the skill of organising information using headings (main, sub, bullet points etc). As a lover of technology in education I wanted to play with my new robot Sphero!<\/p>\n<p>This lead to the creation of our &#8216;Rolling Around the World&#8217; task.<\/p>\n<p>I hooked the students onto the task by demonstrating how Sphero could be programmed to move around a space.<\/p>\n<p>We chatted about the task and created a plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>draw the country (student choice) on a plastic sheet (you can buy\u00a0 these for approx $4 at any party shop).<\/li>\n<li>research cities and landmarks for the country &#8211; focus on the use of organisational tools (we experimented with the online tool <a href=\"http:\/\/linoit.com\">http:\/\/linoit.com<\/a>\u00a0) and add them to the map.<\/li>\n<li>code Sphero to &#8216;roll around&#8217; their country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before we moved off to start our task I posed an additional 2 questions:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Sphero <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">can<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">change<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">colour!<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <strong>How does that change the information you can share about the country? What extra information might you need to research?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Could you use the colour change feature to reflect temperature ? What extra information would you need to locate?<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>I took this opportunity to explain to the students how latitude and longitude\u00a0of a location will influence climate<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Sphero can talk!<\/span> How does that change the information you can share about the country? Could Sphero tell us some interesting cultural facts about a city or landmark when he rolls upon it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From this point on the students took control of the task and loved it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few lessons in I asked the students to design a rubric for us to assess how they performed in this task (because we do need to still check off our outcomes).<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised how much they enjoyed this. I am a believer in setting Learning Intentions at the beginning of a task however I think creating the rubric a few lessons in gave them some real knowledge to draw on.\u00a0 Worth trying!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This term Year 4 were working on the NSW Geography outcome\u00a0 GE2-1 examines features and characteristics of places and environments. In Library I wanted them to focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}