Welcome back to the new school year and our Bee-Bots Downunder Blog. We now have five schools who are busy exploring the use of Bee Bots with their students in Kinder or Year 1 during this first term.
To assist them each school has been supplied with one of our BEE-BOT BUNDLES.
What is a Bee- Bot Bundle? Well you may ask?
Teachers participating in our project were each given a "bundle" which contains the following :
* 2 Bee-Bots
* a Picture Book featuring a story based on a journey theme
(such as "Rosie's Walk" or "Going on a Bear Hunt")
* 2 Foam Dice ( for number games)
*a Play Mat
(eg The Busy Street Map; Treasure Island Map; Race Track Mat; Shapes mat; or Alphabet Mat)
* a Transparent Grid Overlay
(each grid uses 15 cm squares to match Bee Bot's steps)
* a set of large format Bee-Bot Sequencing Cards
(to be used to familiarise students with Bee-Bot commands and for planning/recording Bee-Bot's travels.)
* a Resource Folder containing professional readings and teaching ideas
(to support the use of the Bee-Bots across the curriculum especially in the Mathematics, English,and Science &Technology KLAs.)
Next week we hope to start visting the schools to interview students and teachers and film them using the Bee-Bots - so watch this space!
1 comments:
I haven't seen the bee-bots in action in our classrooms yet, but they're definitely popular with the staff. Cherie brought the bundle in during morning tea to let people see it, and there were definitely a few people who got hooked on it. It will be good to see the children get involved.
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