Astronauts and Test Pilots are Go!

Today the Exploration Station welcomed the very first classes of astronauts and test pilots.  As this is the first round for classes to visit the station everyone is testing out how the space works and we'll be making tweaks along the way to ensure our orbit remains smooth in the future.  

Today our astronauts and test pilots hailed from Room 1 and 2 and are in Year 6.  It was super exciting to finally have some students filling up the station and coming up with ideas about SHINE Online and Computational Thinking. 

We started off thinking about the Exploration Station Procedures and why we needed to learn about them.  We're currently using these words to help us remember the procedures while we're exploring the station...

• Ask if we're unsure
• Walk in the station to keep safe
• Think Green - Be sustainable with resources
• Share resources 
• If it's a tiny piece that no one can use it goes in the right bin
• Click means listen up we have a message from ground control

In the Exploration Station we have a What? Why? How? board this is where we put our learning for the day.  Basically we think about what we're learning, why we would be learning it and how we're going to learn it (essentially the resources we will use.

Here's the brainstorming each class added to our What, Why How board today.. 

Students then went on to 'Get Thinking and Explore' both SHINE online and our Computational Thinking challenge resources.  These are linked off our Exploration Station website.  When they were happy they had enough information they started planning a creation that showed what they had learnt about computational thinking or SHINE online - Safe and Strong.  

A few students managed to finish their plan and have started prototyping their creations.  They're all looking forward to sharing more about their creations tomorrow.