The Hourglass Race
Educational goals: Learning about the world using various technical objects in functional situations. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1.-Good-practices-The-hourglass-race.pdf” title=”Good practices – The hourglass race”] Hits: 1092 Post Views: 8,490
The colours
In Kindergarten, colour work is part of a larger study of light and its effects on the surfaces or materials it enlightens and it is a special theme for linking…
Microplastics: small but deadly
This is a practical activity that introduces students to microplastics, tiny plastic particles, and their impact on the marine environment. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/6.-Good-practices-Microplastics.pdf” title=”Good practices – Microplastics”] Hits: 648 Post Views:…
Bluebots on math and ABC-rugs
The school subjects involved in this activity are Mathematics and language but also social aspects of the preschool curriculum, through group activities and collaboration. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/10.-Good-practices-Bluebot_Maths.pdf” title=”Good practices – Bluebot_Maths”]…
Using the Bluebot as a link in natural science
Educational goals: knowledge in sequential thinking, programming and science, through linking different aspects of a phenomenon together. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/11.-Good-practices-Bluebot_Sci.pdf” title=”Good practices – Bluebot_Sci”] Hits: 480 Post Views: 7,826
Building with stones
This activity should lead children to have other perspective of their home by apprehending it as a technical object. For it, different activities will lead them to familiarize with materials…
Joint through technology
The project “Joint Through Technology” was funded from Google RISE Awards after a successful proposal by mathisis.org team. The aim of the project was to bring together kids from 5-15…
Robotics in the classroom: play to learn
botSTEM appears in national media, Diario ABC, Spain A European program led by the University of Burgos (UBU) encourages the use of robots in children to boost skills in Science,…
The sounds
In this activity the children write a play and musicalize it by creating musical ambiances with various sound bodies. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/34.-Good-practices-The-sounds.pdf” title=”Good practices – The sounds”] Hits: 588 Post Views:…
The vegetal biodiversity
In this activity the students observe trees in a forest to make sketches and then visit a botany garden for making a digital herbarium. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/35.-Good-practices-The-vegetal-biodiversity.pdf” title=”Good practices – The…
Learn Coding – Be a superhero
This activity will promote coding skills and cultivate critical and creative thinking through coding activities. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/37.-Good-practices-Be-a-superhero.pdf” title=”Good practices – Be a superhero”] Hits: 638 Post Views: 7,952
Beat the Flood
This challenge is designed to help pupils tackle a pressing global issue from a variety of perspectives. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/40.-Good-practices-Beat-the-flood.pdf” title=”Good practices – Beat the flood”] Hits: 564 Post Views: 8,126
Planting ideas: climate-change activities for primary school
This activity puts children in a real-life situation that will help them develop skills to discuss complex problems, examine pros and cons and make decisions. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/41.-Good-practices-Climate-change-activities.pdf” title=”Good practices –…
Children programming each other as bluebots in primary school
Educational goals: knowledge of sequential thinking and programming, through the children experiencing physically with their bodies. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/42.-Good-practices-Bluebot_in_person.pdf” title=”Good practices – Bluebot_in_person”] Hits: 577 Post Views: 7,342
Erasmus exchange shows how robots can help STEM teaching
botSTEM appears in the news of HKR University – Text in Swedish and photos: Fabian Rimfors How can robots help children learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)? The European…
The wind
This sequence is extracted from the preliminary version of a book written by teachers participating in the Chinese Learning by Doing program as part of a cooperation established with La…
Program directions with Next 1.0
Students from 3 to 5 y.o are given the specific mission of identifying geometrical shapes, sizes and colors and programming Next 1.0 to achieve the challenges defined. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/3.-Good-practices-Next-1.0.pdf” title=”Good…
Bluebot – Gravitation and friction
In this activity the children are challenged with aiding a robot (bluebot) to ascend to a table. For it, a large assortment of plans and boards of different lengths are…
The body and the movement
This didactic experience describes an educational pathway to discover the body through the Inquiry Based Science Education method. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13.-Good-practices-Body-and-movement.pdf” title=”Good practices – Body and movement”] Hits: 574 Post Views:…
Many flowers to learn with the ICT
Many flowers to learn arises from the need to acquire the concepts of quantity, rhythmic and musical sequence through the association between iconic and symbolic representations. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/14.-Good-practices-Learn-with-the-ICT.pdf” title=”Good practices…
Sound and light through cryptolology and robotics
Educational goals: improving the group work skills and problem-solving skills, improving their multidimensional thinking skills and developing an understanding of sound and light through instructions that use everyday life and…
Snowman
This activity is related to perception and expression of emotions, calculation and measuring, know-how to learn, research and creativity. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/5.-Good-practices-Snowman.pdf” title=”Good practices – Snowman”] Hits: 530 Post Views: 7,918
KIBO
The KIBO robotic kit utilizes a software called CHERP that allows young children to physically construct the computer programs by connecting interlocking wooden blocks, representing a series of events. [pdf-embedder…
Testing Timers
This activity is designed to get children thinking about how sand timers work. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/17.-Good-practices-Testing-timers.pdf” title=”Good practices – Testing timers”] Hits: 741 Post Views: 7,675
Senses
This is a good activity for teaching senses in a practical and playful way. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/19.-Good-practices-senses.pdf” title=”Good practices – Senses”] Hits: 551 Post Views: 8,247
Sources of light and shadows
Students will learn about sources of light and how shadows are made. They also will develop their critical thinking skills. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20.-Good-practices-Light-and-Shadow.pdf” title=”Good practices – Light and Shadow”] Hits: 568…
Life cycles
The most important aim in this activity is to raise ecological awareness and become empathic towards all living beings. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/21.-Good-practices-Life-cycles.pdf” title=”Good practices – Life cycles”] Hits: 533 Post…
High density cognitive paths doing geometry
This activity stimulates discussion and debate among children, boosts their creativity and assesses the ability to work in teams. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/28.-Good-practices-High-density-congnitive-paths-1.pdf” title=”Good practices – High density congnitive paths”] Hits:…
Geometry with MIND robot
With Mind robot, the participants acquire knowledge of geometry and programming in a playful and active way. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/29.-Good-practices-MIND-robot.pdf” title=”Good practices – MIND robot”] Hits: 602 Post Views: 8,063
Vibrating sound and music!
Where does the music come from? We will become great Luthiers to explain, with the help of everyday objects and instruments, what vibration is and how sounds are produced. Then,…
Scribbling story
Children will create the scenography of a story with scribbling machines to investigate concepts of art, science and technology. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/16.-Scribling-machine.pdf” title=”Good practices – Scribbling machine”] Hits: 534 Post Views:…
Useless machines
Creativity, collaboration and the use of digital tools will allow the participants of this activity to design and build some incredible useless machines. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/24.-Good-practices-Useless-Machines.pdf” title=”Good practices – Useless machines”]…
Robot DOC on the line of numbers
In this activity, the students will perform simple addition, subtraction and multiplication tasks and program a robot to check their answers. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/30.-Google-practices-Robot-DOC.pdf” title=”Good practices – Robot DOC”] Hits:…
Adaptable Learning Graph for Maths
The system MaTHiSiS provide an online platform through which the registered teacher can create her/his lesson plans, individualised for each pupil according to his/her profile. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/25.-MathisisLearningGraph.pdf” title=”Good practices –…
Beebots for stimulated recall of science content
Children learn about the four seasons and consolidate the knowledge acquired with the programming of Beebots in a playful and natural way. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/26.-Good-practices-Beebots.pdf” title=”Good practices – Beebots “] …
Getting clean drinking water
Educational goals: Learning a way of getting clean drinking water, becoming aware that the clean drinking water is rare in the nature and encouraging respect for water as a natural…
Making an ‘active‘ volcano
In this activity students will learn more about how lava is formed and become aware of the effects volcanos have on the soil, the dangers and the devastation they sometime…
Bluebots, physics and mathematics in primary school
In the present exercise, the children work in groups and use the bluebots to explore math and the physical phenomenon of friction. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/43.-Good-practices-Bluebot_Friction-and-Maths.pdf” title=”Good practices – Bluebot, Friction and…
Squashed tomatoes
This activity is designed to get children thinking about how gravity works and, in particular, how it can be used to transport food. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/44.-Good-practices-Squashed-tomatoes.pdf” title=”Good practices – Squashed tomatoes”]…
Creating digital drawings with Python
Creation of a digital drawing with Python programming language. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/45.-Good-practices-Digital-drawings-with-Python.pdf” title=”Good practices – Python”] Hits: 633 Post Views: 7,780
Talent Viewer
Educational goal: Breaking down gender stereotypes about science and technology and motivating pupils to develop their individual skills rather than those that fit gender stereotypes. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/46.-Good-Practices-Talent-viewer.pdf” title=”Good Practices –…
Programming with Next 2.0
Students are given the specific mission of identifying the water states, cycles and uses and programming Next 2.0 to achieve the challenges defined by the teacher. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/33.-Program-directions-with-Next-2.0.pdf” title=”Good practices…
From poetry to robotics
In this activity students discover through robotics that mathematics and poetry have many things in common. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/38.-Good-prcatices-From-poetry-to-coding.pdf” title=”Good practices – From poetry to robotics”] Hits: 540 Post Views: 7,436
Multiplication with the numbers 2, 3, 5 and 10
Students will understand how multiplication works and how else they can do it by means of using addition of the numbers that are to be multiplied. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/39.-MultiplicationFlower-FYROM.pdf” title=”Good practices…
Transforming family props into a Scratch game
This activity develops creativity and computational thinking through the creation of animated stories with Scratch. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/27.-Good-practices-Scratch-game.pdf” title=”Good practices – Scratch Game”] Hits: 573 Post Views: 7,055
Crystallography
The rural environment is an ideal place for the development of STEAM activities, given that it has unique and easily accessible natural, patrimonial and social resources. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/12.-Good-practices-Crystallography-2.pdf” title=”Good practices…
Inseparable. Or not?
Students discover how magnets work through different experiments related to real situations in which their use is useful. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/18.-Good-practices-Inseparable-or-not.pdf”] Hits: 550 Post Views: 7,554
A mysterious grot
Students discover simple machines and experiment with the application and utility of the inclined plane to build roads. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.botstem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/botstem-template-good-practices.pdf” title=”Good practices – A mysterious grot”] Hits: 669 Post Views:…
BOTSTEM and GIREP 2018!
On the 9th-13th of July, PhD.Ileana Greca – project coordinator of the BOTSTEM project – attended at GIREP-MPTL 2018, a research and innovation in physics education congress. Hits: 386 Post…
BOTSTEM in SCIENTIX!
On the last 4th-6th of May, BOTSTEM partners attended the III Scientix Conference in Brussels presenting the project to the education community, related EU-funded projects and many stakeholders. Hits: 400…
Learning to program with Next 1.0
ENGLISH Introducing Next 1.0 to 5 y.o to kids in the C.P. El Vallín Piedras Blancas, Asturias, Spain. Next 1.0 is a robot that introduces children (from 3-5 y.o) in…