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Robotics Links to the Preschool Education Programme

 

Get the printable version of the complete document in PDF format. The items are presented in relation with the learning activities done in class and are presented in the order suggested for their implementation which are: LinkToQEP

  1. Robots in our Environment 
  2. Reading plans
  3. Sorting pieces
  4. Learning the robotics vocabulary and communicating with others
  5. Building the model
  6. Building the model as part of a group
  7. Tackle a variety of challenges
  8. Overall view

Also available
A canvas for creating your own LES : a document chock full of ideas about integrating the robotics activities into a complete LES in line with the Kindergaten Programme.  Available on the Kindergarten Teachers Community

These videos illustrate a variety of implementation strategies

Robots in our environment

Competency 5: to construct his/her understanding of the world
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Wondering.  What ARE Robots, Really?

In constructing their understanding of the world, the children make associations with what they already know. (1m 22 sec)
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Reading and creating an information wall


To introduce robots and what they are, Jane Gravel focused on non-fiction reading. As a reading response activity, the children then dictated what they had learned about robots and created an Information Wall for all the school to see.

 Language: Learning related to language development

Recognition of writing in the environment: reading plans
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Learning to Read by Reading Plans

During the course of the year, the children should experience a variety of pre-reading and reading contexts. Reading plans is one of them.

 Mathematic: grouping and sorting

Sorting objects according to personally defined criteria

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Competency 4: to communicate using the resources of language

Actions related to emergent writing
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 Reading and creating an information wall

Reading and writing behaviours, interest in information and communication technologies and end expressing understanding of information.

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 Creating programming sentences

They learn the building block for writing a "programming sentence" by solving the basic challenges.  Then, they develop their own challenges. They discover and express their personal understanding of the programming elements and how to assemble them. Cycle 1 students. (1 m 48 sec)