Six months ago, as part of my induction process to clear my teacher credential, I had to have a mentor teacher observe me giving a lesson and provide feedback. From Science is WEIRD's free Egan education workshops, which I'm a little obsessed with, I knew that I wanted to do a lesson that was a ...
Middle School Learning
Minimalist Grammar + Mechanics
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Two years ago, I started my student teaching in high school physics. A year and a half ago, I got my teaching credential and began working part time for a California charter school. Last summer, I decided that when school started in the fall, I was going to try working full time while still ...
2024 U.S. Presidential Election Lap Book
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I created my first presidential election lap book in 2016, making this my third iteration. I'm flattered by how many people asked if I would be updating it for 2024! With the first debate tomorrow, this definitely took me a little longer than planned, but it's ready! You can also get my ...
2024 U.S. Presidential Election Cards
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It's hard to believe I've been creating and sharing resources for so long, but I shared these presidential election cards for the first time EIGHT years ago! At the time, my oldest was only 6. The next time I do this, he will be able to vote! 🤯 The election cards themselves are the exact same as the ...
10 Lessons Learned My First Year as an FLL Coach
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This was my first year co-coaching two FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams and what an adventure this season has been! In the end, both of our teams qualified for Regionals and the team of mostly older kids ended up winning the Rising Star Award. At regionals, that same team came in third in the robot ...
Spike Prime Challenge: Lifting a Square
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In the future, I'm planning to write a lot more "challenges" for the Spike Pime robot. However, this is the last in a series of 6 that I'm putting together before I start coaching a FIRST LEGO League challenge team. I feel like kids who compete the 5 original Spike Prime Tutorials plus the 6 ...
Spike Prime Challenge: Knocking Over a Tower
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If you've been following along with my series on getting started with the Spike Prime and learning to program the Spike Prime through challenges, you'll see that things are starting to warm up. The skills that kids will learn in this and the following challenges will be VERY useful if you ever ...
Spike Prime Challenge: Using Distance Sensor for Navigation
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Are you following along with my Spike Prime Tutorials? First, I created a series of 5 posts starting with the unboxing. Now, I am working on a series of challenges. I will list them all below and hopefully update the links as I go. If you want stay up to date with my robot tutorials, sign up for my ...
Spike Prime Challenge: Pushing an Object
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This is the first season that I've ever coached a FIRST LEGO League Challenge team. I'm excited! This is also the first time in my life that I've ever used a Spike Prime robot or coded using Spike Prime word blocks. I have several years experience working as an engineer and programmer and I love ...
Spike Prime Challenge: Avoiding an Obstacle
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If you've been following along with my Spike Prime tutorial series, you will know that a couple weeks ago I presented a "first challenge" for kids just getting started using a Spike Prime robot. That challenge was simply to learn how to use the Spike Prime coding word blocks to learn how to drive ...
Michelle has a PhD in Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor's Degree from the California Institute of Technology. 