Pico Boards

What I have done and where I think I am going

What I have learned:
The major project I did with my students in this grant was to help the students create and interactive quiz of sorts on insects. They had studied insects in science and one of the objectives was to have them learn the 3 parts of the insect body: head thorax and abdomen.

Observation of Lyne's Class

On January, I observed Lyne's class when she brought them down to the computer lab.  She introduced the Pico boards to her second grade students that day.  First she demonstrated the slider, the sound sensor, the light sensor, and then the alligator clips.  After her demonstration on how the pico board works, she paired her students.  The task for the pair is to open up Scratch, set up the pico board to make the sprite change color through exploration with the alligator clips (this is to prepare them for their Insect Project).  As I was walking around observing what st

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