• Home
  • Tech Club
  • 7/8 Choice Classes
    • GEMSTV
    • 3d Design
    • Game Design >
      • Online Arcade 2018!
    • Tool Up!
    • R and D Lab
    • Fabrication Studio
    • Minecraft Masters
    • Digital Content Creation
    • Fabrication and Sculpture
    • Prototyping and Invention
    • Fashion and Technology
    • Independent Study
    • Robotics
    • Global Inquiry
    • Killer Presentations
    • Programming
    • Express Yourself Digitally
  • 5/6 Focus Groups
    • 5-6 Innovation / Enrichment
    • 5th Grade Focus Groups
    • 6th Grade Focus Groups
  • Resources
    • For 3d design
    • Brain Break
    • Problem Bank
  • For Teachers
  • Lab Blog
  GEMS Innovation Lab

Ozobot Fable and Fairy Tale Maps

4/30/2017

0 Comments

 
First graders just completed a rotation in the Innovation Lab focusing on map skills along with fairy tales and fables. Within the unit students created their own maps using KidPix and explored their own community in Google Earth. Our last activity was probably the most fun. Students used Ozobots to navigate maps they created with paper and markers. We were able to integrate coding skills through the use of Ozocodes, or color sequences, students added to their maps. These codes made the Ozobots speed up and slow down, zigzag, turn around, etc.  Sometimes the codes worked perfectly and other times they did not, this proved to be a good lesson in troubleshooting and teamwork.  After a little practice students created their final maps and we watched the Ozobots navigate the lines and read the odes, all along telling the fable or fairy tale. 
0 Comments

Colonial Survival Minecraft Style!

4/26/2017

0 Comments

 
As part of their colonization unit, fifth graders visited the innovation lab to experience the hardships of settling in a new land. In a Minecraft world, students were assigned teams and roles, provided with a limited set of tools and resources, and presented with similar survival challenges to the 1607 Jamestown settlers. Finding food, building shelters, and sharing tools and skills were all experienced by the students within the virtual world. Some groups struggled, others thrived, but all were highly engaged as the topic of colonization was brought to life!
0 Comments

Where In The World?

4/20/2017

0 Comments

 
Miss Bell's fourth grade class recently completed a research and digital content creation project in which they produced a green screen video asking the audience to guess their location based on the clues given and the backgrounds created. After some final editing, the video is ready for prime time. Enjoy!
0 Comments

First Innovation Lab Kindergarten Rotation

4/4/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
We recently completed a rotation of 4 visits with each Kindergarten Class. Students got to experience a few of the Innovation Lab tools including, Kiva Structures blocks, Ozobots, and KidPix software. On the Last visit students were asked to draw their favorite activity over from the previous 3 visits. Check out some of their awesome works of digital creative expression below! We look forward to seeing Kindergarten in the lab again soon. 

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

    GEMS Innovation Lab 

    Archives

    May 2019
    November 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Innovation Lab at Georgia Elementary & Middle School
This webpage is maintained by Patrick Clow and  Eric Hadd
Please send questions or comments to:  gemsinnolab@fwsu.org
4416 Ethan Allen Highway
Saint Albans , VT 05478

​School Website:
www.gemsvt.org