Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Schedule and Plan

Jr. Fll Team Schedule

Welcome to Jr. First Lego League (FLL)! I am so excited to be sharing this time with you and to mentor your growth as a designer, builder and responsible citizen. Our school is the only Jf. FLL team in Vermont and we are the first Jr. FLL team in Vermont.

Jr. FLL will meet weekly, on Thursdays from 4-5:15, starting the first week of December. Each student should bring with them a bunch of legos, in a labeled container such as a zip lock bag or tupper ware container. We will be using these legos throughout our sessions together. Students should also bring a journal and a pencil or pen to make drawings, make comments and record research.

It would be great if families could download Lego Designer for use at home. http://ldd.lego.com/ If students have a lego mindstorms robotics kit, http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx it would be great to bring it to practice sessions to work on programming behaviors into motors. I am committed to working with groups of students using this technology during Luke’s time at Schoolhouse.

I could use parent support to help arrange transportation for field trips to research and present our project. I could also use parent support to get team shirts designed and printed.

Session 1-Team Building, Serious Play-esthetics, realism, Lego Designer

Monday 11/29


4-4:10 Media Presentation of Jr. Fll, sample projects and posters

4:10-4:20 Work together to draft norms for our team

4:20-4:40 Serious Play-build a happy or a scary project

4:40-5:00 Lego Digital Designer-Build a happy or scary project

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)

Session 2-Medical Technology/Problems Research, Serious Play-

Thursday 12/9


4-4:10 Media Presentation of Lego References on Biomedical Engineering, Possible Problems to solve with technology, assign research projects

4:10-4:20 Exploration of Chicken Hearts

4:20-4:40 Serious Play-Build a model heart

4:40-5:00 Lego Digital Designer-Build a model heart

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)

HW Research Topics

Session 3-Select a Problem, Team Shirt Designs, Serious Play-

Thursday 12/16

4-4:10 Media Presentation of Lego References on Biomedical Engineering

4:10-4:20 Research Presentations

4:20-4:40 Accept a Project, Assign Additional Research

4:40-5:00 Serious Play-Programming with Mindstorms Dancing Robot

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)

HW Research Our Topic

Session 4-Select a Technology, Serious Play

Thursday 12/16

4-4:10 Media Presentation of Lego References on Biomedical Engineering

4:10-4:20 Research Presentations

4:20-4:40 Accept a Project, Assign Additional Research

4:40-5:00 Serious Play-Programming with Mindstorms Dancing Robot

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)

HW Research Technology on Our Topic

Session 5-Build Prototype Project

Monday 12/20

4-4:10 Media Presentation of Lego References on Biomedical Engineering

4:10-4:20 Proposal Presentations

4:20-4:40 Accept a Proposal

4:40-5:00 Build Prototypes, assign lego digital designer homework

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)

HW Digital Designer Prototype


Session 6-Build Final Draft of Project

Thursday 1/6/11

4-4:10 Media Presentation of Lego References on Biomedical Engineering

4:10-4:20 Prototype Presentations

4:20-4:40 Accept a Prototype

4:40-5:00 Build Final Draft, lego digital designer

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)


HW Poster Ideas


Session 7-Make Poster

Thusday 1/13/11

4-4:10 Media Presentation of Lego References on Biomedical Engineering

4:10-4:20 Prototype Presentations

4:20-4:40 Accept a Prototype

4:40-5:00 Build Final Draft, lego digital designer

5:00-5:10 Circle and Sharing (what I noticed about others, what made me proud)

HW Practice Answering Questions

Session 8-Present Poster and Project

TBD – Location TBD

Present Poster

Present Project

Party-Slide Show and Awards

Research a Topic


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