Ms. Keegan's Classroom Bytes

        Coding has recently been added to the school curriculum, so teaching it is necessary, but it can also be used as a fun activity to integrate into any lesson. For me, I created a lesson that has the students make their own Rube Goldberg Machine , as we are learning about simple machines and plan to have the students make their own Goldberg Machine in person to wrap up our unit. Using Scratch they can code their machine. This lesson allows them to create and plan their machine using coding and gives them an idea of how the machines should work.  

      My classmate and I created a lesson plan for a Grade 5 science lesson, including a creative aspect. We decided to use Canva  to have the students create a map showing the climate in a specific region and then have them present it as if they were meteorologists, informing us about the climate of that region and how it affects the people.  We explained this lesson to our peers and we felt this lesson went really well when we presented it to our peers. Canva is easily accessible and easy to use. The options for differentiation including presenting on Canva if certain students did not want to present to the class. Our peers enjoyed the lesson and seemed engaged in what they were being taught. Although we were not able to do the presentations with this group, I do believe that our class would be just as engaged and increase their understanding of climate and how it affects people.