I-create Lab Exploration and Activity
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 honeycomb.
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 pollinators. Bee's move pollen from one plant to another so that they can produce fruit, vegetables, seeds and so on. They produce honey and we use honey to sweeten our food and for medicinal purposes. When we have sore throats honey helps us feel better.
We need to save the bees! Let's start buy providing a safe home for bee's, they are the most essential living organism on Earth.
4a: Design CT activities where data can be obtained, analyzed, and represented to support problem-solving and learning in other content areas.
I was amazed with the technology variety in the I-Create lab and learned we have carpentry programming software. Using the program you had to input the measurements of your wood for the design to be cut to a certain design. Doing this activity helped me take a large problem and break it into simpler steps. On my first attempt the design was cut off because there was not enough wood. I measured incorrectly. However, it was fun to watch this amazing machine. We decided to try one more time. In the second attempt the design came out just right after programming it and tweaking it to a better fit and a more accurate measurement.
The ShopBot was able to cut and engrave a 2-D honeycomb on wood!
Watch it in action:👇
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