{"id":10257,"date":"2015-04-29T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:14:58","slug":"a-week-in-the-life-2-starting-to-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/a-week-in-the-life-2-starting-to-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Life #2: Starting to Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the third of probably fourteen posts, each chronicling in detail the ins and outs of my Robotics class. I teach an introductory course using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 set. My students are 7th graders who are required to take the course and may not necessarily have any background in programming\/building. My school is on a trimester schedule so the course runs for thirteen weeks at a time. For this particular trimester I have one class of twenty-four students and one class of thirty-four students. I meet each class for one 50-minute period each day, five days a week. I have thirty-four computers in my classroom and one EV3 kit for every two students. I\u2019ve been teaching this class in its current form for two years, though I\u2019ve been teaching Robotics for eight all together.<\/em><\/p>\n

All my best activities\/projects\/units I steal from someone else and then modify to (hopefully) improve. This one is not different. Damien Kee first wrote about The Wave in his book “Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: NXT”<\/a> I read it and then watched the video below which he had posted on his blog.<\/a><\/p>\n