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  Science TEKS- Long Strand Concepts with Essence Statements K-12 K-2.1.B create original products using a variety of resources; Gardening TEK-  K-2.1.B create original products using a variety of resources; Gardening Topic: Investigating the different organisms that would make up our gardening ecosystem(How will they interact with one another? Which are producers, consumers?) Materials Needed:  - Cricut bumble bee design - Fake Flowers - Pipe cleaners - Colored powder Gardening MakerSpace Hero Journey: ISTE CT Standards 3a :  Model and learn with students how to formulate  computational solutions  to problems and how to give and receive actionable feedback. Students will watch a video of how a bee pollinates a flower.  Students will formulate their own computational solutions to problems consumers can cause in a garden. 3b :  Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working...

 Exit Ticket:  Today we went to the ICreate Lab and got a tour by Josh. Josh showed us all the available design tools we could use. You are able to use this on our free time and anyone can use it.   I am interesting playing more with the cricut and the Roland. For the cricut machine, you can add designs to the machine and create cut outs of your choice. The example he showed was of a purple house. He said someone cut out the pieces and put them together to create the house. The other design tool that I would like to use is the Roland. This is a giant sticker maker. You can add what ever design into the computer and it prints out in a sticker.  For the cricut, we will print cut outs of the parts to a dragonfly and the students will put the parts together to create the dragonfly.  For the roland, the we can print out stickers that represent a dragonfly's relationship with the garden. 

Digital MakerSpace Exit ticket: Science TEKS- Long Strand Concepts with Essence Statements K-12 K.9(B) Child observes, investigates, describes and discusses the relationship of organisms to their environments.  Digital Maker Space category: - Digital Presentation K-2     Tools needed: Google slides/ Chromebooks/ iPad Gardening MakerSpace Hero Journey: ISTE CT Standards 3a : Model and learn with students how to formulate computational solutions to problems and how to give and receive actionable feedback. Students will watch a video of how a bee pollinates a flower.  Students will formulate their own computational solutions to problems consumers can cause in a garden. 3b : Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution, and project management. 3c : Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross discipline...