Students are introduced to servos and the flex sensor as they create simple, one-jointed, finger robots controlled by Arduino. Servos are motors with feedback and are extensively used in industrial and consumer applications—from large industrial car-manufacturing robots that use servos to hold heavy metal and precisely weld components together, to prosthetic hands that rely on servos to provide fine motor control. Students use Arduino microcontrollers and flex sensors to read finger flexes, which they process to send angle information to the servos. Students create working circuits; use the constrain, map and smoothing commands; learn what is meant by library and abstraction in a coding context; and may even combine team finger designs to create a complete prosthetic hand of bendable fingers.

Students create a Power Point presentation on a topic of their choice. Then they make this presentation into a screencast using the free program, called Jing. The students do this by narrating their Power Point using a rubric that I've provided.

How do we draw a surface of water using only particles? In this video we'll introduce a powerful analogy using heat to help us out.

The project objective is to have students make a realistic 3-D model that is to scale. Student Mission: Your objective is to create a 3-D model of a building of your choice or imagination. The building must be to scale relative to an average-sized person. You make recreate a dwelling, barn or famous building OR create your dream home. Your building must be to scale and should be finished (windows, roof, shutters, steps, furniture, etc.). The outside of your building should include some surrounding features (e.g. bushes, trees, sidewalks, street, shed, etc.). Your final project should incorporate the elements listed on the rubric and be as detailed as possible. Be creative!

"Creating Business Presentations" is an innovative, browser-based virtual reality simulator designed to teach effective business presentation skills. Built using HTML5 technology, this 360-degree immersive experience is compatible with both desktop and mobile devices, ensuring wide accessibility. The simulator leverages SCORM 1.2 standards, allowing seamless integration with various Learning Management Systems (LMS) for easy tracking of student progress and performance. Users can practice their presentation techniques in a realistic corporate setting. "Creating Business Presentations" offers an engaging, interactive, and educationally sound tool for developing business communication skills.

In this lesson, students will begin working on their first project in Scratch. This lesson focuses on the advantages of using a pseudocode when preparing to create a project in Scratch. This lesson also refers to some difficulty students may have encountered in lesson 3 when they first started to explore Scratch.

This lesson allows students to work on their keyboarding skills while creating pieces of music.  Students can choose classiccal music, current hits, or just play around with the keyboard. Students will then be able to create an app using Code.org's AppLab that uses a recording of the music they play.

This task is tied to a part of our PBL unit.  Students are to create a video tutorial of an exercise or movement related to a sport and explain the proper way of completing it.  

How to use SQL to create a table and insert data into a database.

Can you code & utilize a Micro:bit to create a species counter to track local wildlife? Can you design a way to make it into a “wearable device”?  Can you report the data and as a whole class discuss biodiversity?The goal of this project is to integrate the two together to make the technology more relevant and impactful. Biodiversity describes the variety of species found in Earth’s terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. The completeness or integrity of an ecosystem’s biodiversity is often used as a measure of its health. Why is diversity important in an ecosystem?

Learn how to use jQuery to create elements from scratch and then insert them at different places in your webpage.

This infographic introduces the main aspects of Creative Commons licenses. An accessible infographic transcript is available at this url: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mHMBXlnnMKMxEcTpNv9QZ97rqf_Lt7i9H4ipg--fmC0/edit?usp=sharing

This is a learner workbook for students to learn Scratch that links the Computer Science standards as identified by the Harvard Graduate School of Education

This lesson is an introductory lesson to Credit. It leads into my other lesson on Creditworthiness nicely. I have included a presentation and a crossword puzzle.

Students will be able to:
-Correctly use fundamental vocabulary related to credit and lending
-Explain how loan amortization and payments work
-Understand how principal, interest rate, and term are critical components to evaluating credit options

Credit bureaus have evolved into big businesses. The December 2017 issue of Page One Economics: Focus on Finance addresses the growth of credit bureaus and how the credit reports they maintain affect both creditors and borrowers.

This lesson is to help students first learn applicable terms related to credit cards. They will then analyze aspects and features of credit cards to know how to determine which would be best for various situations.

With record-level credit card debt in the headlines, this December 2023 issue of Focus on Finance addresses credit card history, statistics, and usage, as well as reasons for the increase in credit card debt. The information in the article can help in managing credit card accounts, and students will better understand the economics of using revolving credit as they prepare to become cardholders!