Pequea Valley Elementary students will soon have access to new robotics software and technology for their STEM class this fall. Mitchell Swords, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) facilitator at Pequea Valley's two elementary schools, Paradise and Salisbury, won an approximately $18,235 grant from DART Foundation to purchase new Lego WeDo 2.0 robotics kits for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Students utilizing the kits will integrate science, technology, engineering, and math standards with engineering and coding activities to solve problems, do experiments, or share what they learned.
Students in Pequea Valley's STEM class code robots to interact with their environment as tools they use to learn. Learning experiences using the new kits may range from designing prototypes of an invention for their classroom to creating a tool for a lab experiment on balance designs.
By designing with Lego kits and components, students can exercise their creativity and inventiveness, learn how things move, and discover how sensors are used in everyday tools at home and at work. Swords said he hopes to begin implementing the curriculum in the fall and plans to display learner-created designs and projects at the second annual STEM Arts and Design Night in May. Projects will show student projects, creative designs, and unique robots that solve problems at school and in the home.
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