Andey and Shawna in attendance, discussing lesson plans and needed micro:bit components.
Goals
- Everything centered around bio-mimicry
- Wherever possible, integrate GenCyber topics (cybersecurity)
- Integrate joystick:bit?
- Students can do past camp activities if they want to learn more
Kits
- 3 micro:bits
- joystick:bit
- sensor
Integrate Cybersecurity and Joystick:bit Brainstorming
Working from Andey's proposed lesson plans, these are additional thoughts and ideas.
- Day 1: Fireflies
- Introduce micro:bit
- Firefly activity with 3 micro:bits
- Talk about communication, anyone can listen in
- Day 2: Bears (switch bears and bees)
- joystick:bit mini game: bear stealing honey
- Introduce joystick:bit, keep code simple with only one or two joystick:bit buttons
- joystick:bit mini game: bear stealing honey
- Day 3: Bees
- joystick:bit mini game: pollination
- collect pollen and transfer to other micro:bit to make honey
- teach how to use joystick
- under time constraint
- joystick:bit mini game: pollination
- Day 4: Monarchs
- Could introduce swarm idea
- Could talk about insects as algorithms
- How do indeterminately sized groups synchronize? (also ties in to fireflies)
- Butterflies are also pollinators; could add on to the previous mini game (migration? seasonal behavior change?)
- Physically have people move by adding maybe a pedometer to this game?
- Day 5: Orioles
- Orioles as adversaries
- Distance between micro:bits - if they get too close, the butterfly dies