Garcia Center Service Project

Garcia Center Service Project

Standards

2c. Choose teaching approaches that help to foster an inclusive computing culture, avoid stereotype threat and equitably engage all students.

3c. Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts.

4a. Design CT activities where data can be obtained, analyzed, and represented to support problem-solving and learning in other content areas.

4c: Guide students on the importance of diverse perspectives and human-centered design in developing computational artifacts with broad accessibility and usability.

5d. Establish criteria for evaluating CT practices and content learning that use a variety of formative and alternative assessments to enable students to demonstrate their understanding of age-appropriate CS and CT vocabulary, practices, and concepts.  


Hero's Journey

My partner and I decided to create a hero's journey story that revolved around the idea of recycling. The TEK we used was 4.b- Make informed choices in the use and conservation of natural resources and reusing and recycling of materials such as paper, aluminum, glass, cans, and plastic. Our goal was to make students realize that they can be hero's everyday by making sure they recycle. We taught them recycling terms while also teaching them what exactly is recyclable here in Corpus Christi. We started off with using an AR app called Smash Trash that allowed students to grasp a general idea of what is recyclable. Then we scattered recycled material around the ground and had students go scavenger them using our moment wheel. Before they went and scavagered, they spun a movement wheel which determined how they had to go gather their items. The movement wheel included tasks such as running, hopping, skipping, and bear crawling. When they were done, we did a closing quiz to see what they learned!

Overall Experience

The overall experience was amazing. Students had a great time learning how to use the AR app, scavagnering items, and learning new things about recycling. I can for sure say that everyone went home learning something that they did not know before. For example, here in corpus christi they do not recycling plastic bags, glass, and items with food or liquid in them. This experience was a great way to show how we can get active outdoors while also learning something. If I was able to do this again I definitely would!

Here is a link to access our Hero's Journey Story!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Drone Coding Lab

Image
 Drone Coding Lab     In class, we had the opportunity to code Tello Drones. Thankfully, we got to have some background knowledge of how to use the Tello drone by exploring DroneBlocks Simulator We learned the basic information of how to connect the drone to what the terms mean to be able to code the drone. Here is a provided picture of the Tello Drone.  CT Standards 1d: Develop resilience and perseverance when approaching CS and CT learning experiences, build comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems, and see failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate . 2c: Choose teaching approaches that help to foster an inclusive computing culture , avoid stereotype threat and equitably engage all students. 3b: Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution and project management. 3c: Plan collaboratively with other educators t...
Read more

Digital Makerspace Exploration Activity

Image
 Digital Makerspace Exploration Activity CT Standards 2a: Nurture a confident, competent and positive identity around computing for every student. 3b: Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution and project management. 4d: Create CS and CT learning environments that value and encourage varied viewpoints, student agency, creativity, engagement, joy and fun.     Today I explored a website called Maker Education ( Maker ED) which  offers a transformational approach to teaching and learning that attends to the real and relevant needs of learners and humans. Once I was on the website, I clicked on Tools and Materials and then filtered it into open source software. I decided to click on  Chrome Experiences and choose a program called One Million Stars . One Million Stars is a program that  visualizes nearby star data wit...
Read more