SATURDAY CLASS

 

SATURDAY CLASS SCHEDULE

 Introductions

·       Experience with Chromebooks?

Review Friday work

·       Chromebook basics

o   What is a chromebook?

o   Chrome OS

o   Limited memory/storage

o   Great battery life

o   Ports – USB, HDMI, memory card, earphones

o   External CD reader

o   Models do become outdated

·       Costs and availability

o   $40 - $700, most around $100 - $200

o   Unboxed, renewed

·       Working online/offline

o   Apps – Google Play Store, focus on free apps that don’t require additional downloads and adjustments to setting

o   Not just for online work, lots of apps/peripherals work offline.

 

Learning Stations/Learning Centers

For this class, a station is considered as part of a rotation, with the activity lasting on 10 – 20 minutes. The center would be for an activity requiring a longer time and possibly including other materials.  The activities involve the students in active learning and result in the production of an artifact such as a coded program, a drawing, a journal entry, or a physical object.

·       Digital Microscope (Offline, USB port, Chromebook Camera).  Science is the obvious connection – looking at plants, rocks, fossils, bugs, feathers - but this might also be useful for journaling, art, or social studies/history (looking at artifacts.)  Since this is an offline peripheral, the Chromebooks can be taken outside.

·       Drawing Tablets (Offline, USB port).  Art, illustrating reports, Nature Journaling.  Since this is an offline peripheral, the Chromebooks can be taken outside. 

·       Coding (Online/Offline, USB port, Micro:bit).  We’ll look at Scratch Jr. (offline) and the Makecode environment (Online.)  You can download Makecode programs to a Micro:bit attached to a Chromebook.

·       Data collection/sensors (Offline, USB port, sensors).  Vernier sensors with Graphical Analysis app.  There are also several sensors built into the Micro:bit as well so there’s a great connection to coding.)  Good for outside work also.

·       AI (Online, Chromebook camera and microphone.)  Birdsongs, plants, animals ID software.

·       Other – 3D viewer, Augmented Reality