TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting Second Graders’ Robotics with an Understand/Use-Modify-Create (U2MC) Strategy
AU - Baek, Youngkyun
AU - Wang, Sasha
AU - Yang, Dazhi
AU - Ching, Yu Hui
AU - Swanson, Steve
AU - Chittoori, Bhaskar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This study, a sub-study of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project, applies a modified strategy of the U2MC for an eight-week afterschool robotics curriculum to promote upper elementary students’ computational thinking in the second grade. Twenty-one students in second grade participated in a Life on Mars project which lasted for ten days with one class hour per day. They participated in activities learning coding concepts, basics of robotics, as well as exploring life on Mars. Most notably, the study found a significant increase in participants’ computational thinking skills. In addition, participants came to understand basic robotics, including operation, composites, and codes. Implications for future research and robotics curriculum design are discussed in the presentation.
AB - This study, a sub-study of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project, applies a modified strategy of the U2MC for an eight-week afterschool robotics curriculum to promote upper elementary students’ computational thinking in the second grade. Twenty-one students in second grade participated in a Life on Mars project which lasted for ten days with one class hour per day. They participated in activities learning coding concepts, basics of robotics, as well as exploring life on Mars. Most notably, the study found a significant increase in participants’ computational thinking skills. In addition, participants came to understand basic robotics, including operation, composites, and codes. Implications for future research and robotics curriculum design are discussed in the presentation.
KW - coding
KW - computational thinking
KW - robotics
KW - STEM+C
KW - Use-Modify-Create approach
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096330213&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.20897/ejsteme/5772
DO - 10.20897/ejsteme/5772
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096330213
VL - 4
JO - European Journal of STEM Education
JF - European Journal of STEM Education
IS - 1
ER -