How do you take care of a dog during the cold winter? What is the best food? What do I need to do for my pet before and after school?
For the next few weeks Animal Allies will be coming out to AlBrook with their dogs (and hedgehogs!). Students will learn about proper care of a pet as well as how they can help animals that may have physical handicaps such as blindness. Students learn that with proper love and care pets can live happy lives.
Keep watching here for more updates on possible projects students will be working on with Animal Allies.
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Students in Grades 3-6 meet most Tuesdays after school to write stories. They also build on computer skills using Microsoft Word, saving work in “My Documents” and on a flash drive and taking and uploading digital pictures into their document. Topics for stories vary from Science class experiments to Elementary Boys Basketball; Animal Allies to original fiction! Students write about their school and community life.
New this year rather than printing the work on paper we are publishing the work on the Elementary School web page.
As students document and share their life and interests they are able to spend time with friends…it’s great!
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Robotics is busy not only during Tech Ed but after school most Tuesday’s and Thursdays. The VEX challenge has been set and students are working hard to program and build small robots to perform specific tasks and movements. Regional competition is planned for March 2011 hosted by AlBrook School. Other schools invited include Cloquet, Ojibwe and Deer River. We hope to make this a great experience!
If you are interested in becoming a part of the team see Mr. Lindner and/or Mr. Ray for more information.
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Last week JS and I reconstructed our robot to become more stable. In the front we now have a plow with ultrasonic sensors behind it. We are still working on getting them to work properly so that the robot doesn’t fall off the edge of the (testing) table. Next we will work on how to use the “light” sensors. -JH 2/4/10
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In STEM after school with Mr. Ray we are doing a couple of interesting things, we are building stuff with K’Nex and learning how to use snowshoes.
Most of the group that meets with Mr. Ray most Thursday’s.
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I rock at Legos
I really work with Legos
Legos are so fun
haiku by Gary Gundy
Legos are too cool
Playing with Legos is cool
Legos are awesome
haiku by Dawson Miller
Having fun learning together happens easily with Lego-robotics. Students work with lego’s to identify simple machines, create battery-powered motorized lego constructions as well as program robots! It’s a great time to be together.
Posted 1 year, 12 months ago at 5:59 pm. Add a comment
Robotics is a great experience. It is also a great place to learn and have fun. This year we are working on a competition using Lego’s. We have a variety of instruments to use and can have up to three motors and four sensors. For sensors we have ultrasonic (sensor sending ultrasonic waves and using the “echo’” to locate near objects, touch (which is a button that is easily pushed), light (which determines how dark or light as object is) and sound sensors (which can make the robot do something depending on the sound level). The motor is like an arm reaching for a doorknob. It has the motor where the “shoulder” would be and where the hand would be is the part that rotates forward and reverse. The base where you start from is the “computer” or what controls the motors and reacts with the sensors depending on how you programmed it. The programming is done on the computer and is transferred to the robot through the USB cable. Joe Schwartz and I have started ours using the ultrasonic sensor on the front of our robot facing down so that when its about to go ff of the edge of the playing field it stops, then backs up and turns before going again. We hope to do well in the competition. – JH
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AlBrook’s after-school programs are geared for curious busy kids who want to add to their learning about how the Universe works! STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math prepares our students for rewarding and challenging careers which require creative collaborative problem solving skills. Visit Minnesota STEM to learn more.
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