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Purpose:The purpose of this project is to build a robot that would be able to go through a course or around desks. You will be using computer skills, coding skills, designing and engineering your own recycling bot. Materials:Computer Lego Spike Prime Kit

This bundle includes some physical science standards with computer science standards.

Using a chromebook or tablet, students will work on the device to create this troubleshooting page for younger students. The students must use appropriate terminology that younger students can understand for tasks on their chromebook.  Tasks may include opening a google doc, creating a google slideshow, uploading a google doc to google classroom, etc. It may also include how to add special characters in a document or how to change the font, lettering, etc.

The purpose of this project is to build a prosthetic limb our of the legos you are provided. This should be a working limb or digit. You will be using computer skills, coding skills, designing and engineering your own prosthetic limb or prosthetic digit.

The purpose of this project is to build a robot that would be able to sort through recycled materials. You will be using computer skills, coding skills, designing and engineering your own recycling bot.

The purpose of this project is to pick a particular area in your community to clean up and to build a robot that would be able to clean that area. You will be using computer skills, coding skills, designing and engineering your own clean up bot.

With ever changing technology, students need to understand that technology and science are continually changing. This project is to focus on some new and changing technologies to analyze the technology and create their own work using the technology. This may take 2-3 class days for jr high and 1-2 days for high school.

This is a student choice powerpoint where the student can pick a broad or specific type of technology to research the history of. This 10 slide powerpoint entails parts, who, when, where was it invented, along with life before that technology, and a works cited slide. I give the students 1 class period and a weekend to work on this presentation.

Purpose: To develop a model that represents all of the parts of a telecommunication system between you and a friend whether by telephone or the internet. This project and rubric were designed with the help of my classroom students. Their input is how I developed the rubric. 2-3 class days to complete.

This is 4 design and create lessons that students can use while building with the Lego Spike Prime box.

Pick a computer science career that interests you and fill in the data table.

Students explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information. The students then answer questions to 3 different cybersecurity scenarios.

14 total vocabulary words and questions for technology.

7 essential research questions to cover and explain the process of how a phone call or text works.

This leads discussion and how I format future assignments in the technology unit.

5 vocab words and 5 research questions that covers signal, code, telecommunication, analog and digital.

Students must answer 5 short response questions about their use of technology. Then use it as a class discussion topic or debate.