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September 19-22: Survey, Design Thinking, Donations, STEM Fun!

 Dear Frisco Families,

Please watch video 1 and video 2 (5 or so minutes each) about what we are up to this week! Don't forget to click below to see photos from classes.

Here are the key points from the video:

Photographs

Kindergarten

1st Grade - Students are learning to program their Ozobots. Ozobots have light sensors that detect color and patterns in color. If you give the Ozobot the right code using a marker line, they will go fast, slow down, turn right or left, spin around, do a u turn, etc. 

2nd Grade - Students thought about the materials that work best to create a backscratcher. This is their first maker space project!

3rd Grade - More on their fabulous meal planning next week! They empathized to find out their partner's perfect meal, defined their challenge, ideated - brainstormed lots of ideas, prototyped with their meal creation, and Monday they will test by sharing their meal with their partner to get feedback.

4th Grade - Check out SeeSaw for their classroom digital citizenship work. 

5th Grade - Check out SeeSaw for their completed biospheres next week! Ask them about producers, consumers, and decomposers.


Materials donations:

  • Light cardboard (cereal boxes, etc)
  • Cardboard boxes
  • Toilet paper tubes
  • Duct tape
  • Masking tape
  • Straws
  • Cotton balls


Estimadas Familias de Frisco,

Por favor vean el siguiente video de 5 minutos acerca de nuestros planes para esta semana.  No olviden hacer click abajo para ver fotos de nuestra clase.

El video trata de los siguientes puntos:

  • Completen la encuesta STEM 2022 dirigida a las Familias.
  • STEM está basado en un proceso de diseño del pensamiento. - IDEO - ¿Qué es un pensamiento diseñado?
  • Con frecuencia los proyectos STEM de diseño del pensamiento coinciden con el contenido de una materia de ciencias (por ejemplo Ciencias Sociales).
  • Nuestro enfoque se basa en las habilidades de colaboración.  Habilidades de colaboración - Grados 3-5
  • Este año tenemos programados tres eventos familiares. Pronto les informaremos las fechas de los mismos. 
  • Ingrese a la cuenta SeeSaw de su estudiante para ver su trabajo realizado en STEM y en otras asignaturas (Classrooms).

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