Ramaz Innovation Lab Curriculum Timeline 2024-2025 1st Grade
2nd Grade
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Socio-emotional Learning Project Oops Take risks, turn mistakes into opportunities manipulating paper. Digital citizenship Online safety
Physical Computing: Robotics Kaibot
Introduction to
Hand-Building Nets
Socio-emotional Learning + Coding
Inspired by the picture book, Big Al, students create stories about kindness and inclusion in Scratch, Jr. Students make Kindness Aquariums by coding multi-scene stories using dialogue, movement, sequencing.
Handheld robot with cards and commands to solidify coding principles learned in code.org.
Computational
Thinking Code.org Course A
Unplugged activities to learn logic and sequencing in computer programming. By solving increasingly di cult puzzles online, students learn about algorithms, spatial awareness, and problem solving
Computational Thinking
Physical Computing
Code.org Course C
Kaibot Advanced
By solving increasingly di cult puzzles online, students learn about algorithms, spatial awareness, and problem- solving. (Continuation of 1st Grade Code.org)
Students code a handheld robot using card with commands that teach logic and problem solving,pattern recognition, how to write more e cient code by using loops.
Students fold a 2D net of a cube to form cubes, which they use as dies for a math game in their math classroom.
Hand-Building Nets Making paper dreidels by folding 2D nets to make a 3D shape; fold nets of a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder. how to connect the different shapes into one 3D object.
Jan
Feb
March
Stop Motion Animation In connection with their studies of birds in Science class, students will create a stop-motion animation, which teaches others about the way birds care about their young.
April
May
June
Design Thinking
Mapping Our Community + Designing for Our Coding School Community Explore floor Students learn about plans in the the different roles school building people in our school and map the community play, space with its research their needs, activity by coding build prototypes of it in Scratch Jr.
possible personalized devices.
Engineering Challenges
Building bridges using only paper sheets with increased weight for each challenge.
Design for Environment
Learn the origins of materials and how they are discarded. Through hands-on projects. understand concepts of reuse, recycle, repurpose, and upcycle.
3D Digital Design + Augmented Reality
3D Digital Design and 3D Printing
Middot Marks
Students build on the skills developed in the previous unit to design an object that can be 3D printed.
Learn 3D design creation; build a model of their physical Middot Mark building in a 3D space.
Father’s Day Frames
Physical Computing Robotics Marty
Students apply skills built in Scratch, Jr. to Marty the Robot. Marty is a physical robot that can be programmed to follow directions, complete tasks. use data collected by different embedded sensors.