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Think, Make, Innovate #MakerMarch Let's Get Chat-Tea Maker Book Chat
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Join @abridgesmith an @grogers1010 as they chat & drink a little tea- getting chat-tea ? about this week’s book, Doll-E 1.0 by @shandamccloskeydraws Check out our website DLGWAEA.org for the resources mentioned in the video. Have you, your students, or own kids ever redesigned a toy to be new, improved and totally for you? *filmed in a time before social distancing #HaveFunMaking #HaveFunReadingandMaking #iteach3rd #teachersgiveteachers #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram

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Book #4: Doll-E 1.0, by Shanda McCloskey
At Glance: For use with 3rd Grade with Use of Makey Makey
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​Where to find Doll-E 1.0:

Where to find Doll-E 1.0:
GWAEA Educators: In print & eBook 
Amazon Link
Check your local library!

Check out the printables below to help you get started!

Maker Prompt:

Create a talking doll out of spare parts.

Check out this Instructable for more detail 
Thanks Makey Makey for the great idea!


Don't have a Makey Makey at home?  Consider other options:
  • use the free app, Chatterpix, to take a picture of toy, add a line and get it talking!
  • Keep it no tech and create a puppet show theatre in a door frame! We love this idea from @WorkingGunn on Instructables 

​Vocabulary List
Tinkering
Coding
Decoder
Spare
Database
Interesting
Destroying
Update
Jealous
Revive

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Print your own Vocabulary Cards!
Use ​Vocabulary Teaching Script to help guide your discussion with your students.

Women's History Month Connection:
                   ​Nonfiction Texts Featuring Female Computer Scientists

​From AEA Online Resources 

GWAEA Educators: You will need to use your AEA Online Resources login to access the articles below
Ada Lovelace: InfoBits     Britannica Elementary
Katherine Johnson: Britannica Elementary    InfoBits    InfoBits
Margaret Hamilton: Britannica Elementary
Grace Hopper: 
Britannica Elementary     InfoBits.    Highlights for Children


Not an educator in our AEA Schools?
​Check out the Book: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Standards Connection

Literacy
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RL.3.3 - Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

What evidence of understanding might look like:
  • What are Charlotte’s interests? 
  • How do Charlotte’s interests contribute to the events in the story?
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RL.3.7 - Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
  • Page with what parents are watching on TV
  • Page with Bluetooth being jealous
  • Page with the Frankenstein illusion

What evidence of understanding might look like:
  • Have students pick an illustration from the story. Have them take a picture of the  illustration in Seesaw. Have the students describe what is happening in the illustrations. Have the student  talk about how the picture adds to the words in the story.

Science
​Physical Science 3–PS2–3
Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
What evidence of understanding might look like:
  • Students would generate questions after viewing this video on makey makey inventions and add them to a driving question board

Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science 3–5–ETS1–2
Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

What evidence of understanding might look like:
  • Students are all given the same maker prompt to create a solution to the maker problem. Students will discuss & share their products strengths and weaknesses.
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