Share

Show Your Learning

Active Share

• Since the entire class created and tested the same project, have students share their project by acting out the project as the 123 Robot rovers, themselves. 
  • Have groups line up in 2 lines across from one another. One will be the “rover” and the other will be the “sample”. 
  • As the teacher reads each block in the project, the student acting as the “rover” should do that action. When they get to collecting the sample, the student who is the “sample” will join their “rover” partner. The two will carry out the remaining blocks in the project together, to return to the base.
• Ask groups what was similar or different about their movements, compared to those of the 123 Robot. Were their steps all the same size? Were they faster or slower than the 123 Robot? Did they follow directions as well as the 123 Robot did?

Discussion Prompts

Digital Documentation

• Take a video of the Active Share, showing students acting out their projects. Share this with your classroom community to show how students are making sense of the spatial reasoning involved in their coding projects.

Student-Driven Visible Thinking

• Write down students’ words as they are building and testing their project, listening for one of the following areas:
  • Persistence
  • Problem Solving
  • Teamwork

Add those words to the walls and spaces around your classroom, to encourage students as they build their habits of mind.

Metacognition-Reflecting Together

• How did you add to your project to have the 123 Robot return to the base? How did the robot have to move? What VEXcode 123 blocks did you use?
• What else do you think we could make our 123 Robot rovers do using the blocks we used today? Could they collect more samples? Where else could they travel using [Drive for] and [Turn for] blocks?
• What is one way you and your group solved a problem in this Lab? How were you helpful in solving the problem? Is there anything you would do differently next time?