Dean Burrows

So what happens when you pose Year 6 a design challenge? Challenge was to create a piece of fire fighting equipment that could be used stationary at individual houses to protect from future bushfires. @LEGO_Education @AlphaBalzer @stem_T4L @DoE_STEM

Challenged Year 4 to create something that moved. They have never used @LEGO_Education EV3 before. With a bit of help to sort the codes, they used problem solving to work through the faults and created this catapult. I was blown away. @AlphaBalzer @stem_T4L @DoE_STEM

The LEGO EV3 has been a huge hit with the senior school. Year 5 and 6 have been creating “nanobots” to fight viruses, linking into their unit microorganisms. Some great functional designs. @DoE_STEM @stem_T4L @AlphaBalzer

Using the @Ozobot to code the way home from school. Linking coding with geography, art and maths. @stem_T4L mentoring other teachers as I go. @DoE_STEM

So easy, yet so effective.

Changed up our coding for Year 2. Added some if statements. These kids nailed it. @AlphaBalzer @stem_T4L @DoE_STEM

Change up of our outdoor coding @AlphaBalzer @stem_T4L @DoE_STEM

A bit of outdoor coding for well-being week. @stem_T4L @AlphaBalzer

First lesson of the year with the #beebots and Year 2 nailed it. A lesson on how to code and create at the same time. The challenge was creating their own obstacle course and writing code that another bot could follow and debugging when needed. Next lesson, debugging. @stem_T4L

Unplugged coding to start the year off. Kids really enjoy solving the problem then finding their own way to explain the solution. @stem_T4L @learnPSNSW @DoE_STEM

Intro to coding lesson and refresher for year 4. Trying to get them explicitly giving instructions, just like code. They love solving the puzzles. Lesson finish, create an animal that links to science topic. Thanks @AlphaBalzer for the Kmart tip. @DoE_STEM

Stage 3 designing future towns with sustainable energy, community gardens, electric car chargers, sensored traffic lights, whole food shops. Then navigating them using @Sphero #futurefocused @AlphaBalzer @pipcleaves @mccallumtp

Using the @Sphero robots today to learn about angles and angle sums. Some of my year 4 students quickly understood that angles can be quite a simple topic, even when calculating missing angles. The Sphero really helps understand the 360 concept. @dizdarm @mccallumtp c u Wednesday

Totally not STEM related but we will@use this area so@much in the future. Eleebana’s new top oval is now world class.

Year 6 are studying a unit about natural disasters. Today they researched The Black Saturday bushfires and produced a news report. They had various scenes, added an intro filmed and edited their own broadcast. They loved it @stem_T4L @DoE_STEM #doitdifferently

Girls in STEM creating the jewellery of the future using @tinkercad and the #3Dprinter @DoE_STEM @stem_T4L @CareerswithSTEM @pipcleaves @AlphaBalzer

Year r using the @LEGO_Education kits to create catapults as part of their science unit. Linking hand on STEM activities in everyday lessons. @STEM_Share