This year I am trying to be more organized in organizing the lesson plans and have them transition over time towards the Lego Robotics topic that the children will be eligible to participate in next year in Grade 3.
Luckily this year I have a parent that has volunteered to help that has followed a similar path as I have in teaching lego clubs with his older son over time. He has suggested many great ideas for the year!
Our year goes from October 2011 to June 2012. I have listed the topics below by month:
October: General Build a place: Children chose to build an Air Force base.
November: NASA Calls for Astronauts: What will they use?
December: Creationary
January: Skyscraper Challenge
February: Longest Bridge Span Challenge
March: Intro to Gears?
April: Lego Robotics Intro (Basics about the robots - building them and getting to know about the sensors and such)
May: Lego Robotics Tug of war (One month, we can talk about how gears work and then have two teams do a tug of war between two robots (depending on attendance, we could have four teams and do an elimination tournament). We could discuss gearing for power and torque. )
June: Lego Robotics - Drag Race (we gear for speed and have a drag race between two robots.)
This is a draft schedule, so it may change as we go.
