METRO Team Teach Ready- Tello Drone and We Do 2.0

 On 09/26/23 my partner Alex and myself will be participating in an after-school program at Metro Elementary School. During the time frame of 4:15 to 5:30 we will be given the opportunity to teach students about the We Do 2.0 Bot and the Tello Drone.

To prepare for this Alex and myself have come up with the following breakdown of time to use as a guideline during our teaching. We have also come up with the idea of using anchor charts to help describe some of the verbiage and background knowledge to the students. Another hands-on activity that we thought might be good for the students was to print out some “code” pieces and let the students work on building their own code in groups. This way they can participate hands-on without the use of the computer to better understand the concept of coding. At the end of each 25-minute session, the students will get a demonstration of what their drone or bot does to see it in action.

Some of the standards we will be working on during this time are the ISTE CT 5.4b and ISTE CT 5.3b.

Metro Elementary School ACE Program Breakdown

4:15-5:15 (5:30)

Telle Drone Station.

                (ISTE CT Standard 5.3b “Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in various team roles, equitable workload distribution and project management.

4:15-4:20 – Introductions. (Alex, Brandy, Children)

4:20-4:30- Go over background knowledge with children… (Using an anchor chart)

                Drones First-

1.       What is a Drone?

2.       Has anyone ever worked with Coding before?

3.       Here are some vocabulary words you might not be familiar with….

4.       Here is an example of Coding….

5.       Let's build some codes of our own……

4:30-4:40- Children will work on building different codes and be shown how it is flown using the simulator. (Will use cut-out codes to recreate and build their own codes hands-on)

4:40-4:45- Children will see the actual drone fly its pattern after it has been coded. Children can ask questions.

4:45-5:00- Students will transition to the next station.

We Do 2.0 Bot

                (ISTE CT Standard 5.4b- “Design authentic learning activities that ask students to leverage a design process to solve a problem with awareness of technical and human constraints and defend their design choices.)

5:00-5:10- Students will go over background knowledge of building bots, instructions in construction, and coding/pairing.

5:10-5:15- Show how the bot works. And can “send messages.” Students will again work on code building to communicate with their bot.   

5:15-5:30- Students left will be able to ask questions and further explore the We. Do 2.0 bot.

Reminder as children leave to thank them for coming today and that you hope they learned something new.!

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Some examples of the information found on the anchor chart are listed below. Along with examples of matching codes and vocabulary. I have also included a link with the simulation of what pattern we have our drone set up to fly. I hope that the students will have a great time. 

Drone mission link :