2. create robotic characters from ancient
civilizations and narrate about their lives.
◦ Egypt
◦ Greece
◦ Rome
Character choices were narrowed by History teacher
3. All 4 core teachers involved
Social Studies = Research
Language Arts = Story writing / Storyboard
Science and Math = Building and Programming
Tech Ed = Intro and Support
4. • Just science and history teachers
Too many schedules to arrange
Tie in art teacher
Adapt to American History
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15. Create a robotic rendition of a literary work.
Scenery can be robotic
11th grade English class
Edgar Allen Poe Unit
Graded on:
◦ Storytelling
◦ Robot Construction
◦ Expression
◦ Collaboration
◦ Storyboard
16. Advanced Proficient Basic Below Basic
Storytelling All important parts of story Almost all important parts Quite a few important Much of the story was
were included and were of story were included and parts of story were left out or was
accurate. were accurate. included and were inaccurate.
accurate.
Robot Robots were creative, and Robots were constructed Robots were constructed Robots were not
Construction constructed well. No pieces well. No pieces fell off fairly well. No pieces fell constructed well. Pieces
fell off during the during the performance. off during the fell off during the
performance. performance. performance.
Expression Robots showed a lot of Robots showed some Robots showed a little Robots were not
expression and emotion. expression and emotion. expression and emotion. expressive.
Scenery Scenery was creative, added Scenery was creative and Scenery did not get in Scenery got in the way
interest to the play, and did did not get in the way of the the way of the robots. of the robots OR
not get in the way of the robots. distracted the audience
robots. unecessarily.
Collaboration Routinely provides useful Usually provides useful Sometimes provides Rarely provides useful
ideas when participating in ideas when participating in useful ideas when ideas when participating
the group and in classroom the group and in classroom participating in the group in the group and in
discussion. A definite leader discussion. A strong group and in classroom classroom discussion.
who contributes a lot of member who tries hard! discussion. A May refuse to
effort. satisfactory group participate.
member who does what
is required.
Storyboard Storyboard included all Storyboard included all Storyboard included all One or more required
required elements as well as required elements and one required elements. elements was missing
a few additional elements. additional element. from the storyboard.
