Thanksgiving Day Parade- Buildings and Balloons
by Andrea Hurst
Students create a city and a plan for a route for a Thanksgiving parade with floats coded by robots. The students build the buildings along the parade route using area or addition/subtraction houses. Then they create their float and code the robots down the parade route.
Lesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Lsh_VL2OCPwk74fXwct2VwnnTMS_Gs5m/edit?u…Subject Area
Technology 4. Innovative Designer Engineering S5: Apply Technology to Engineering S6: Apply Communications to Engineering Mathematics Geometry (G) English Language Arts (ELA) Reading (Literature)
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