{"id":544,"date":"2025-01-29T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:16:46","slug":"professional-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These materials support teacher design and enactment of computational thinking-enhanced science units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Design of Integrated Unit<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Benefits%20of%20Robot%20Models%20and%20Experiments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benefits of Robot Models and Experiments<\/a>:\u00a0 Support for adding a robot model or experiment to science curriculum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connecting Computational Thinking to Science:&nbsp; Identifying and enhancing existing Computational Thinking practices in science curriculum.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Minimum%20Viable%20Project_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minimum Viable Project<\/a>:\u00a0 Reflection prompts to use while testing and iterating on your unit design.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Lesson%20Characteristics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Characteristics of Integrated Robotics Lessons<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Inertia%20Sheet%20final%20creative%20commons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inertia Sample Mini-Lesson<\/a> (Decomposition and Abstraction)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Light%20Lesson%20CCversion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Light Reflection and Absorption Sample Mini-Lesson<\/a> (Data Practices and Pattern Recognition)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Robotics, Computational Thinking &amp; Engineering<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Notice%20and%20Wonder%20Activity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notice &amp; Wonder<\/a>: An example activity for students exploring the Hummingbird Robotics Kit, which may be adapted for other robotics platforms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/MakeCode%20Scavenger%20Hunt%20Tasks%202025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MakeCode Scavenger Hunt<\/a>: An example activity for introducing MakeCode programming with robotics. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/CT%20Poster%20V2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CT Poster and Cards<\/a>:&nbsp; Description of Computational Thinking Practices&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These materials support teacher design and enactment of computational thinking-enhanced science units.<\/p>\n<p><em>Design of Integrated Unit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Benefits%20of%20Robot%20Models%20and%20Experiments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benefits of Robot Models and Experiments<\/a>:\u00a0 Support for adding a robot model or experiment to science curriculum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connecting Computational Thinking to Science:&nbsp; Identifying and enhancing existing Computational Thinking practices in science curriculum.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Minimum%20Viable%20Project_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minimum Viable Project<\/a>:\u00a0 Reflection prompts to use while testing and iterating on your unit design.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Lesson%20Characteristics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Characteristics of Integrated Robotics Lessons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filedn.com\/lxSndNhHcBOX7E3btz01OiL\/RobotsInScience\/Inertia%20Sheet%20final%20creative%20commons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inertia Sample Mini-Lesson<\/a> (Decomposition and Abstraction)&nbsp;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/professional-development\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"139,106,218,1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-544","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/robots-in-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}