Choice Board
Choice Board Examples & Strategies
Use the Choice Board to allow students to display their voice and choice within their learning. The Choice Board can be used in multiple ways by the teacher to:
- Engage students who finish early
- Assess what students have learned at different points throughout the Unit
- Extend the Unit or lesson
- Allow students to display their learning in the Share section
The Choice Board is intended to provide content that can be added to the classroom’s existing Choice Board or to any bulletin board in the classroom.
The following is the Choice Board for this Unit:
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What is a Planetary Geologist? Write down 3-5 interview questions that you would like to ask a Planetary Geologist. Then, use your classroom resources to find the answers to your questions. Write your answers and share what you learned with your class. |
If Then Action Think of something you do where you make a decision based on your senses, like deciding what to wear, or what snack to have after school. Write or draw your decision making process with If - then statements, to “code” your own behavior. |
Electromagnet Example Open the Using the Electromagnet example project in VEXcode GO, and test it. Iterate on this project to sort your Disk samples to new locations. |
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Obstacle in the Way Imagine there was a crater or big rock between the Red Disk and the sorting area. Mark the obstacle with an X on the Field. Then, code your Code Base to collect the Red Disk, then drive around the obstacle, to return it to the sorting area successfully. Test your project and see if it works. |
Blue Disk Boogie Imagine the Blue Disk is a special Mars discovery. Build a project using an [If then] block, so that your Code Base does a “special” action when it picks up a Blue Disk. How does your Code Base signal its interesting find? |
My Block in Real Life What is something you do every day, that is a repeatable sequence? Like brushing your teeth, or packing up to go home? Write or draw your own “My Block” to show the repeated behaviors in your daily life. Then write or draw a project for a typical day that uses the My Block. |
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Reverse Order Create a project to collect the Disks from the Field in the opposite order. What do you need to change in your project to collect the Blue Disk first? Test it out and see if you can successfully collect and sort the Disks in reverse order. |
Code Base Helper Think about something that is sorted by color in your school or home. Code your Code Base to collect and sort those items, as you might when you put them away. Test your project using the Disks, to represent the items you’re putting away. |
My Block Editor Choose a new location on the Field for the sorting area for the Red Disk, and adjust your My Block, so that the Code Base sorts the Red Disk to your new location. Change parameters or blocks in your My Block, and then test your project to see if the Code Base sorts the Red Disk to your new sorting location. |