The seventh graders at California Area School District are ready to begin the Museum Bots curriculum. Today, I introduced the project to the students in Mr. Hormell's social studies classes. I showed students the components they will have to work with and some examples that were creates during the pilot sessions at Carnegie Mellon University over the summer. I also showed them a short demonstration of the programming interface.
The students will begin researching their historic figures Tuesday of next week. Once they have background information about the person, they will begin writing their stories in Mrs. Hurley's language arts classes. Finally, Mr. Vavases (science) and Mrs. Hajdu (mathematics) will work with students during the robot production and programming.
The students are very excited about the project and have already begun discussing ideas for their characters.