Ramaz Innovation Lab Curriculum Timeline 2024-2025
1st Grade
Socio-emotional Learning
Project Oops
Take risks, turn mistakes into opportunities manipulating paper. Digital citizenship
Online safety
Physical Computing: Robotics
Kaibot
Handheld robot with cards and commands to solidify coding principles learned in code.org.
Introduction to Computational Thinking Code.org
Course A
Unplugged activities to learn logic and sequencing in computer programming. By solving increasingly di cult puzzles online, students learn about algorithms, spatial awareness, and problem solving
2nd Grade Socio-emotional Learning
+ Coding
Inspired by the picture book, Big Al, students create stories about kindness and inclusion in Scratch, Jr.
Students make Kindness Aquariums by coding multi-scene stories using dialogue, movement, sequencing.
Computational Thinking Code.org
Course C
By solving increasingly di cult puzzles online, students learn about algorithms, spatial awareness, and problem- solving.
(Continuation of 1st Grade Code org)
Physical Computing Kaibot Advanced
Students code a handheld robot using card with commands that teach ogic and problem so ving,pattern recognition, how to write more e cient code by using loops.
Hand-Building Nets
Students fold a 2D net of a cube to form cubes, which they use as dies for a math game in their math classroom.
Stop Motion Animation
In connection with their studies of birds in Science class, students will create a stop-motion animation, which teaches others about the way birds care about their young.
Design Thinking
Designing for Our School Community
Students learn about the different roles people in our school community play, research their needs, build prototypes of possible personalized devices.
Mapping Our Community +
Coding
Explore floor plans in the school building and map the space with its activity by coding it in Scratch Jr.
Hand-Building Nets
Making paper dreidels by folding 2D nets to make a 3D shape; fold nets of a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder. how to connect the different shapes into one 3D object.
Engineering Challenges
Building bridges using only paper sheets with increased weight for each challenge. Design for Environment
Learn the origins of materials and how they are discarded. Through hands-on projects. understand concepts of reuse, recycle, repurpose, and upcycle.
3D Digital Design + Augmented Reality
Middot Marks
Learn 3D design creation; build a model of their physical Middot Mark building in a 3D space.
3D Digital Design and 3D Printing
Father’s Day Frames
Students build on the skills developed in the previous unit to design an object that can be 3D printed.
Physical Computing Robotics Marty
Students apply skills built in Scratch, Jr to Marty the Robot Marty is a physical robot that can be programmed to follow directions, complete tasks. use data collected by different embedded sensors
3rd Grade Introduction to Google Accounts
Google Classroom
Google Drive
Google Docs
Google Slides
Digital Citizenship
The dos and don'ts of computer use as a 3rd grader at Ramaz.
Partnership with families regarding healthy on-screen behavior
4th Grade SEL/ Design Thinking
Students are inspired by the book, The Most Magnificent Thing., to explore stages of the Design Thinking Process.
Typing Pal
Google Bootcamp
Google Docs/ Google
Slides/Google Classroom
Socio-emotional Learning + Design Thinking Parks and Playgrounds
Students design a playground as they take into consideration the preferences of their users. Working in small groups, they build a model of the playground.
Digital Citizenship
Focusing on what information may be OK (Personal) or not OK (Private) to share online, students create a game in the coding app Scratch. Skills: logical thinking, conditionals, loops, events.
Computational Thinking
Introduction to Scratch
Students learn the basics of Scratch Programming - a block based coding language, which allows them to program animations, mazes, and video games.
Physical Computing
Introduction to Vex Robotics
Students transfer their coding and programming skills to be able to operate a robot with sensors and variables.
Basic Computer Use
Typing Pal
Students learn and practice proper typing skills. Students learn to use and format Google Docs and Slides
Digital Film Editing
Students learn basic film editing skills, so that they can create a film poem called Where I am From… and present it to parents at the end of the project.
Coding conditionals
Scratch
Google Search Engine
Measurement
3-D Design
Measure, draw lines and shapes using centimeters, millimeters. Skills transferred to a 3-D Design project.
Design for Inclusion
Participation in ADI design challenge for assistive devices.
Through Design Thinking, students research, brainstorm, prototype with hand-building and solve problems for a chosen persona.
Vex Robotics
Students build robots that perform tasks with a coding program similar to Scratch.
Physical Computing
Micro:Bit
Micro:Bits programming
sensors such as: sound, light, and an accelerometer.
Movie Making/ Digital Citizenship
Students create movies.
Topics include: Being an Upstander Proper Group Chat Etiquette Cyber-Bullying
Password Protection Etc.