STEAM in Prep
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) Education in Prep!
Our students have been learning how to code a SPHERO to create a Jackson Pollock inspired, robotic painting! This activity derived from an inquiry about colour mixing. We had a guest artist and fellow colleague Mrs Kate Todd come to visit us in Prep and help to discover a new way to paint, inspired by Jackson Pollock’s ‘action’ painting technique. Mrs Todd introduced us to SPHERO, a tennis ball sized, waterproof robot controlled using the SPHERO Edu app to code the direction and movements of the robot. The children were absolutely delighted when SPHERO came to life and began changing colours and moving with Mrs Todd’s commands using her tablet device. They then began to add splashes of paint to the floor area covered in paper and the children programmed SPHERO to roll through the paint and in all directions covering the paper to create our Jackson Pollock inspired, robotic painting!
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Our students have been learning how to code a SPHERO to create a Jackson Pollock inspired, robotic painting! This activity derived from an inquiry about colour mixing. We had a guest artist and fellow colleague Mrs Kate Todd come to visit us in Prep and help to discover a new way to paint, inspired by Jackson Pollock’s ‘action’ painting technique. Mrs Todd introduced us to SPHERO, a tennis ball sized, waterproof robot controlled using the SPHERO Edu app to code the direction and movements of the robot. The children were absolutely delighted when SPHERO came to life and began changing colours and moving with Mrs Todd’s commands using her tablet device. They then began to add splashes of paint to the floor area covered in paper and the children programmed SPHERO to roll through the paint and in all directions covering the paper to create our Jackson Pollock inspired, robotic painting!
#lovemacc #preparedforpurpose #nuturedforlife