Teacher Tammy Takes on LEGO Robotics

This quarter a fantastic project landed in my lap, so to speak. I was teaching Technology Tools for Teachers, when I heard from a friend in the engineering department that a local LEGO Robotics club needed some coaches to help out the head coach, Sydney Foster, who had been leading the Awesome Onions LEGO Robotic Club for several years. "Yay!" I thought. "This is just what my students, all pre-service teachers, need in order to see what teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) classes could look like at the middle-school level." The whole class agreed, so we wrote a set of lesson plans that would involve a short worship/focus time, a project segment, a team-building exercise, and a period of time studying what the LEGO robot could do.