2024VSTE Annual Conference

Join us for an exciting program where we?ll explore how using robotics can make science more fun and improve your students' SOL scores! We?ll share easy-to-use strategies and hands-on activities that bring science concepts to life. Discover how robotics can help students understand and enjoy science, while also tackling the tough spots identified in SOL assessments. This program is perfect for teachers looking to inspire their students and boost their science achievement with engaging and effective tools.

Explore the intersection of technology and taste! In this hands-on activity, attendees become tech-savvy pizzaiolos. They program drones and Spheros to navigate a coordinate grid, delivering pizza slices to specific spots. It?s a flavorful fusion of robotics, coding, math creativity, and fun!; Explore the intersection of technology and taste! In this hands-on activity, attendees become tech-savvy pizzaiolos. They program drones and Spheros to navigate a coordinate grid, delivering pizza slices to specific spots. It?s a flavorful fusion of robotics, coding, math creativity, and fun!

This session will cover what it looks like to use a program called Book Creator with 4th and 5th grade students in a classroom. It will cover the different ways that this program can be utilized (whole group, independent projects, creative writing). It will cover how easy it is for a teacher to create a template for their students to use or how a teacher can allow freedom in choice of how their book may look (creative writing). This interactive session will show how book creator can be used in multiple subject areas as well as provide an opportunity for those attending to see real student examples. Finally, an opportunity to practice around with the program for those who attend the session.

How do makers self-assess? What can teachers do to encourage self-assessment in innovative and self-directed spaces? Find out in this interactive session as we discuss our own self-assessments during a make-and-take activity and then compare our own work with what researchers have to say about self-assessment and self-regulated learning.; How do makers self-assess? What can teachers do to encourage self-assessment in innovative and self-directed spaces? Find out in this interactive session as we discuss our own self-assessments during a make-and-take activity and then compare our own work with what researchers have to say about self-assessment and self-regulated learning.