While reading a book about ways to re-use old items yesterday, we found a picture of a robot. The students have been quite excited about the idea of building robots in the classroom. Today, a small group of children helped make a list of "robot-building materials" we would need. These included:
These students then went into our closet and gather the materials pictured above. Tomorrow, we're going to show these to the whole class and ask our friends to start drawing pictures of robots to build. There's discussion of building one BIG robot as a class, as well as several smaller robots. We're excited to see where the robot project takes us! (Be on the look-out for a list of materials they want to ask parents for- including a large box or two!)
- Paper
- Cardboard
- Plastic that we can smush
- Plastic that's hard like bottles
- Something for buttons and switches
- Wood- like a piece of fence
- Buttons from clothes
- Corks
- Telescopes (tubes)
- Boxes
- Tape. Lots of tape.
- Glue
These students then went into our closet and gather the materials pictured above. Tomorrow, we're going to show these to the whole class and ask our friends to start drawing pictures of robots to build. There's discussion of building one BIG robot as a class, as well as several smaller robots. We're excited to see where the robot project takes us! (Be on the look-out for a list of materials they want to ask parents for- including a large box or two!)