Using Robotics to Enhance Middle School Science Learning: Examining Teachers' Design Goals for Integrated Lessons (Poster 9)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sixteen
  In Poster Session: Emerging Technology

Abstract

The [name] project supports middle school teachers to integrate robotics technology (Hummingbird robotics kits and MakeCode programming) into their science classes. Data was collected from eight teachers who participated in the first year of a multi-year project. Analysis of teacher interviews, lesson plans, logs, and artifacts suggests that teachers designed lessons that used robotics to address a range of science standards including light and sound waves, energy transfer, and evolution. Lessons integrated robotics in different ways, including as a tool to facilitate data collection and analysis, to model phenomenon, and to demonstrate student learning, allowing students to explore and apply science concepts in new ways.

Authors

• Debra Bernstein, TERC
  Presenting Author

• Michael Patrick Cassidy, TERC
  Presenting Author

• Karen Mutch-Jones, TERC
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jennifer L. Cross, Tufts University
  Non-Presenting Author