Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 19

Dash has become part of our classroom! Students enjoying using their critical thinking skills to program Dash to complete different tasks from using the launcher to creating music with the xylophone! Students have enjoyed connecting their reading and math assignments with Dash throughout the school year to enhance our curriculum. A reading activity we worked on involved reading a piece of literature and then creating a scene of the book for others to view using our robots. During an extension for math students worked to show Dash solving math equations using a number chart, students were able to work the problems out and show another way of solving the equations. We also researched and designed Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloons and programed Dash to carry our balloons down the parade route in November! Each student had a chance to star in the parade and MC and program Dash to make it down the parade route for all of America to see. Dash has connected students that at times are shy to work with others. I see the skills they are picking up by using Dash helpful in the years to come. Coding is an important skill of our technology enhanced world.