1. Broadwater Elementary Library Helena, MT
Hands-On Learning

2. It started with a grant.
HEF
Genius Club

3. I bought stuff! Little Bits Magformers Snap Circuits
Jumperbot
Gyrobot
Sphero & Ollie
2 mini iPads
Makey Makey
Magformers
Keva Brain Builder and blocks
Lego Story Starters
Mindstorms
Knitting supplies
Squishy Circuits
Kits

4. Genius Club Makers I invited fourth and fifth graders
to come once a week at lunch.
Response was overwhelming
Genius Club Makers

5. Professonal Service - HSD
Teacher Jessica Sichelstiel co-sponsored Genius Club as her professional service.

6. Jessica and the kids are experimenting with Squishy Circuits

7. The kits worked well….. Snap Circuits Arcade
Arcade – too many delicate parts
Snap Circuits Arcade

8. Little Bits
Popular! Love to make buzzers

9. JumperBot
One advantage of the kits – the students can figure them out

10. Ollie

11. Motorized Car
Wanting to strengthen my science background – workshops at Canyon Ferry Lake – Montana Learning Center

12. Momentum
Pinball board

13. Manipulatives – the non-electronic
Magformers

14. Story Starters

15. Blocks
Use in class!

16. The Brain

17. Tooth models

18. The kids love it!

19. But there wasn’t time to break down the robotics kits and start over.
Gyrobot runs on a string between two chairs.

20. That’s when I realized I needed help!

21. A Carroll College student volunteered
Lucky me!
A Carroll College student volunteered
to teach robotics to the geniuses.
Bridgette is showing kids how to program an Adafruit.

22. Bridgette has helped us for three years. Next year she will be a senior!

23. Mindstorms

24. Genius Club Knitters Third, fourth, and fifth graders met
once a week at lunch.

25. Knitting with Judge RBG

26. Boys and girls like to knit.

27. I have many, many knitting pictures!

28. Cubetto!

29. Putting it together

30. at Broadwater Elementary, Helena, MT
Hands-On Learning
at Broadwater Elementary, Helena, MT
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