@ExploringBalance Activity Page • 2020
In this virtual makerspace, the LEARN team is #ExploringBalance with balancing sculptures, mobiles, homo-polar motors, and much more. We will focus our exploration on key concepts of balance, like gravity, mass, center of gravity, and distribution of mass. This capsule
#RoundTheWorld_ChainReaction Activity Page • May 2020
#RoundTheWorld_ChainReaction Ever heard of marble runs or Rube Goldberg Machines? This Live Stream was designed to show the basic concepts for teachers and students to start creating awesome machines right away! We demoed some materials, looked at why build
Professional Development Day 2 – Micro:bit Pilot 2020
LEARN and this years’ Micro:bit cohort spent a day together reflecting on deployment, the new MEES technology framework, student projects, and lesson plans. We have a strong group of educators this year pushing the boundaries with integrating Micro:bits into the
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
Micro:bit Pilot: First Days of PD
LEARN, Kids Code Jeunesse, SWLSB, and LBPSB have embarked on a micro:bit pilot project for the 2018-19 school year. A dozen classrooms will receive class sets of the micro:bit to work with for the year. Kids Code Jeunesse graciously donated
Raspberry Pi Learnshop – September 2017
LEARN, Club Framboise and Vitrine technologie-éducation (VTÉ) held a third learnshop looking at the mighty power of a mini computer, the Raspberry Pi. Both a computer and a micro-controller, we focused on two distinct strains; inside the box (using the programs within the computer)