Grade 4
Fourth grade students will complete two units this year in Project Lead The Way. They will learn about computer science through the unit Input/Output: Computer Systems, and they will practice their engineering skills with the unit Energy: Collisions.
If you would like to see your child's work from Project Lead The Way, please email me at vanloos@aaps.k12.mi.us, and I will send you an invitation to connect with Seesaw. Click here for more information about Seesaw and what it is.
Input/Output: Computer Systems
In Project Lead The Way, fourth graders learn about how a computer takes input from its user, then processes data and gives output. Using that information, they code a game in Tynker, an application that lets students do block-based computer coding. Students make many math connections as they code their game to represent data using charts and use the x-axis and y-axis to represent a character's location on the screen.
Energy: Collisions
Our second Project Lead The Way module is Energy: Collisions. Students work in pairs to build a vehicle using Vex, then using the engineering design process they modify their vehicle with a safety restraint system. They test their system by driving their vehicle down a ramp, with an egg buckled in, and crash it into a wall.
Fourth grade students will complete two units this year in Project Lead The Way. They will learn about computer science through the unit Input/Output: Computer Systems, and they will practice their engineering skills with the unit Energy: Collisions.
If you would like to see your child's work from Project Lead The Way, please email me at vanloos@aaps.k12.mi.us, and I will send you an invitation to connect with Seesaw. Click here for more information about Seesaw and what it is.
Input/Output: Computer Systems
In Project Lead The Way, fourth graders learn about how a computer takes input from its user, then processes data and gives output. Using that information, they code a game in Tynker, an application that lets students do block-based computer coding. Students make many math connections as they code their game to represent data using charts and use the x-axis and y-axis to represent a character's location on the screen.
Energy: Collisions
Our second Project Lead The Way module is Energy: Collisions. Students work in pairs to build a vehicle using Vex, then using the engineering design process they modify their vehicle with a safety restraint system. They test their system by driving their vehicle down a ramp, with an egg buckled in, and crash it into a wall.
