{"id":539,"date":"2012-09-23T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2012-09-23T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T11:26:17","slug":"robotics-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Robotics Starts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first robotics class last week.\u00a0 In order to get every grade level done, I need to start in September.\u00a0 I am starting with grade 4 (2 sections) this year.\u00a0 The kids were very eager to get going.\u00a0 This class has been doing robotics since grade 1.\u00a0 They were super fast at assembling the &#8220;Goal Kicker&#8221; WeDo robot and the teacher was in meeting so I gave them a choice or read, draw, or make something with the extra parts.\u00a0 They all choose the latter.\u00a0 I still had time so I had them write about their experience and\/or any burglar alarm ideas they had for the grade 4 challenge in their journal.\u00a0 Some students went to creative ideas that were more in the realm of creative play (not buildable) while other drew and wrote about how they would use sensors.\u00a0 I will try and scan some journal entries to see what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first robotics class last week.\u00a0 In order to get every grade level done, I need to start in September.\u00a0 I am starting with grade 4 (2 sections) this year.\u00a0 The kids were very eager to get going.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=539\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childdevelop","category-robotics","category-teaching"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robotics Starts! 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