LEARN started off the new school year at SWLSB’s Twin Oaks Elementary, building a collaborative vision for the schools’ creative space. With the staff, we brainstormed on what makes a successful space for students through our “Circuit” city activity, where
Forest Hill Elementary – 2019
The LEARN team visited Forest Hill Jr. (Grades K-2)… We spend two days in our Pop-up Makerspace and were able to have the whole school experience the magic of an open creative space. The students were excellent, the teachers were
Micro:Bits at MacDonald High School – 2019
The LEARN team spend a day with our Micro:bit pilot classes at MacDonald HS. Our goal was to have students experiment with a bunch of peripherals that hook up to the M:B for a possible future bigger project… The engagement
Micro:Bit Pilot 2019 – Souvenir Elementary
Micro:Bit Peripheral Day 2019 @ Souvenir Elementary
The micro:bit pilot is going very well! The students have taken to the device rather easily and are now able to pretty much help themselves with the trouble shooting. On this day we hooked up all kinds of “stuff” to
Scratch 3.0 Discovery Day 2019
LEARN hosted a great session on Scratch 3.0 with a room full of keen educators. The session had lots of discovery and learning going on that all culminated into a “Demo or Die” activity. We had some great demos… makey
Mansonville Elementary School – 2019
LEARN spent the day at Mansonville Elementary of ETSB and had a wonderful day of learning, tinkering and playing… Our STEAM day was with the whole school, all 27 students from grades 1 to 6… The students worked very well
Laurentian Elementary School – 2019
LEARN spend some time at Laurentian Elementary (SWLSB) exploring the language of computers… The students explored Scratch, TurtleArt, plus constructed some pretty cool cranky contraptions, Lego vehicles, and artbots. Lots of hard fun for all; the students loved it and
Open Creative Space Day – December 2018
Pierre Elliott Trudeau STEAM Exploration
LEARN spent the day at PETS exploring WeDo and Sphero. The aim was to let the Ss explore the tools in preparation of making characters for a winter story. As they were playing they were thinking about how they plan