Rebecca Dann

Dann’s innovative teaching idea, “Ozobot City,” focuses on supporting the Math Resource Room at Byram Intermediate to help students explore shapes, volume of 3-D figures, angles and coding in a creative, experiential way and by using robotics. Students will work in small groups to design and create a city using graph paper to create a blueprint of their city. Students will find the area in which the buildings take up, the volume of the buildings, and find angles of the roads that are created by their buildings. Their final step will be to code the Ozobots to move successfully around the cities of the other groups using their knowledge of coding and angles. As a hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) project, its goal is to help students develop a fun and engaging relationship with math.