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Making Cross-Curricular Connections with Micro:bits

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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Lobby, Table 9

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Allison Larsen
K-6 Technology & Innovation Teacher
Crosby-Ironton Schools
@Teach_Innovate
Allison works as the K-6 Technology and Innovation in the Crosby-Ironton School District in Minnesota. She has been in this STEAM position for the past 8 years. She is passionate about finding new and innovating concepts and tools to share with her students.
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Kurt Becker
Principal
Cuyuna Range Elementary School
@CRESguyKurt
Kurt has been an educator for 32 years. Sixteen of those years were as an elementary classroom teacher, and the other sixteen years have been spent in an administrative role. He is currently the principal of Cuyuna Range Elementary School in Crosby, Minnesota. During his years at CRES, Kurt has had a front row seat as he has watched Allison Larsen build a STEM program that was named the top elementary STEM program in the state of Minnesota in 2018.

Session description

This session will demonstrate how computational thinking with Micro:bits can be used to teach and reinforce a variety of different subject area topics. The lessons are hands-on and student artifacts will be displayed. Attendees gain a variety of tools to successfully implement Micro:bits into their classrooms.

Purpose & objective

The purpose of my session is to allow attendees get hands-on experience with Micro:bits and learn how they can be used in the classroom to accompany a computational thinking curriculum, as well as, using this technology to make many other cross-curricular connections. It will be shown how these cross-curricular connections have allowed students to make greater academic gains.
Attendees will leave my session with resources needed to successfully implement this content, ideas, and curriculum into their own classroom. They will get a toolkit for success.

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Outline

The primary material resource that will be presented will be the Micro:bit, the Climate Action Kit that can be used as an add-on and other sensors to allow for different applications in various student projects.

There will be many hands-on opportunities for attendees to experience how Micro:bits work, how they improve computational thinking skills, and how they can be used in real-world applications to solve problems.

Time presenting on each student project will depend on audience interaction. It will be paced to their interests.

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Supporting research

Aslina Saad, Suhaila Zainudin,
A review of Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Computational Thinking (CT) in teaching and learning, Learning and Motivation, Volume 78, 2022, 101802, ISSN 0023-9690, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2022.101802.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0023969022000224)

Karaahmetoğlu, K. & Korkmaz, Ö. (2019). The effect of project-based arduino educational robot applications on students' computational thinking skills and their perception of Basic Stem skill levels . Participatory Educational Research , 6 (2) , 1-14 . DOI: 10.17275/per.19.8.6.2

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Session specifications

Topic:
Computer science & computational thinking
Grade level:
3-5
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
https://makecode.microbit.org/
Subject area:
STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:
For Students:
Knowledge Constructor
  • Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.
Computational Thinker
  • Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

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