Fourth Grade Students Display Empathy-Themed Designs for Families
Last Friday, fourth grade students hosted family members and fellow Lower School students to view their designs which put forth messages of empathy while sharpening their coding and design skills. The project was a cross-collaboration among classroom, Coding, and Quaker Education teachers.
During Coding classes, students continued to think about empathy (which was a theme in recent months throughout the Lower School) – what it means to them, and what messages they feel the community would benefit from. According to Coding Teacher Rachel Kaplan, students planned designs that they could illuminate and add motion to, in hopes of capturing their audience’s attention. “To thrive in this project, students needed to communicate effectively with their partners, while understanding some circuitry, programming, and engineering,” said Rachel.
In addition, students worked on a “tapestry” that is inspired by Maya Angelou’s words: “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”