Brittany Vega

 DRONE (BEE) Activity Honey Bee Story Time     3a: Model and learn with students how to formulate computational solutions to problems and how to give and receive actionable feedback.        My drone was not connecting, technical issues happened so I ended up improvising and using what I had. Students enjoyed learning about bees and their importance. I showed them the code and talked about bees and their importance to our environment. The first graders held a hexagon and learned about the shapes attributes. One student mentioned the honeycomb had so many hexagons. Furthermore, students learned how bees work as a team for the character trait. For the third graders I was able to show them the code and talk about the drone flying higher when we increase the inches. With the technical difficulties I was able to adjust and learn as I go. This will play a big part in my journey when it comes to teaching and utilizing technology.  🌱 Seed Germination 🌱 3...

I-Create Lab (Makerspace)   5a : Evaluate and use CS and CT curricula, resources and tools that account for learner variability to meet the needs of all students . I was curious about the Cricut and loved that it is available to use in the I-Create lab. For the Heritage Park event in October I will have students do an activity using the drone while learning about bee's and how they are important. Bees are on of the world's most important pollinators for food crops. In fact, out of every three bites we consume relies on pollination! The drone (bee) will land on a honeycomb cutout  I was able to create using the Cricut. Take a peak of the honeycomb cut out below👇 Everyone who participates in my activity will learn about some common bees here in Texas. The four are: Carpenter bees, honey bees, bumble bees, and mason bees. I still need to work on creating the video then a QR code. Once they scan this QR code and watch the video they will choose one of these four bees and stick i...

 Lab Experience : DroneBlocks I enjoyed exploring the Tello &Art Presents: Dance. After further exploration the images of the dancing drones grabbed my attention. I love how innovation and creativity drones have brought to the skies.   After getting inspired I created a code. A simple code to test take off, we struggled a bit at first but eventually putting technical issues aside we manage to create more codes and view the drone after every launch mission.  This is a great beginning simple program. Once the blocks were in place we were ready to execute the mission. We had to follow steps for our drone to function properly. These were the steps we followed: Power on Tello and place on a flat, open-area surface (indoors) Double tap your home button and go to Settings > Wifi Tap on the Tello, which will create a hotspot that will look similar to: Tello-XXXXXX Double tap your home button and return to DroneBlocks Click "Connect To Tello" Now that you are ready to ...

  15 minute Activity: 🐝Create a Bee Home Bee Home Lesson Guide 👈 Facts: Did you know there are about 20,000 different types of bees. All worker bees are females. That means they are girls. Bees have five eyes!🐝 Students will create a bee home while learning the importance of bee's.  4c: Makerspaces Creating computational artifacts allowed for personal expression while designing the bee home in shape of a honeyc omb. My I-Create lab support related to gardening was using the ShopBot to create a 2-D bee home. This ShopBot enabled me to create a unique wood design. My bee home will have a honeycomb shaped design to represent how they skillfully build hexagonal honeycomb cells. Hexagons are the highest-sided polygons that tessellate, or fit together. Hexagonal honeycombs minimize the material needed, making them space-efficient.  Why are bee's important: they pollinate food crops! Imagine a world with no bee's. We wouldn't have fruits and vegetables because they are pol...

  WeDo Lego Lab 2.0 5b: Did it empower students to select personally meaningful computational projects?  In the lab we had fun exploring and experimenting with LEGO WeDo 2.0 kits. We constructed and built a model that can take action by moving around using a code. The kit includes a variety of LEGO's to build the model and a battery pack. Me and my partner constructed the little crate for Milo to carry moon stones (foil paper). Milo is pulling and pushing his cart full of moon stones.  Activity: Students will create a code to make Milo pull and push moonstones on his crate. The challenge is for them to create and design a crate for Milo to move his moonstones. While learning about force!  What is a force? What is a pull? All forces are either push or pull. When force moves and object away from something, that is a push. When force brings an object closer, that is a pull. A force is defined as a push or pull on an object. A force can change the shape of the object on ...

  Coding : Minecraft Activity 1a: How did it set professional learning goals to explore and apply teaching strategies for integrating CT practices into learning activites in ways that enhance student learning of both the academic discipline and CS Concepts?  Always start with setting goals. Setting a goal is important for educators by keeping the classroom organized. When CT is integrated into lesspns, studentd become more enaged in thier work. This is mainly becasue technology provides different opportunites to make it more fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching in the same things in a different way and achieveing those goals.  The coding key term i explored in class was "functions". A function is simply a "chunk" of code that you can use over and over again, rather than writing it out multiple times. Functions enable programmers to break down or decompose a problem into smaller chunks, each of which performs a particular task. My minecraft character was able to pe...