At FX Palo Alto Laboratory, research projects are shared among researchers using the Git and GitHub collaboration tools. GitHub and Git are essential technologies for sharing coding with other programmers.
Students will work in small teams to research a common type of sensor and how to use an Arduino microcontroller to read its values, creating a video and written tutorial summarizing the key concepts and practical steps required to use their sensor.
Part of a Cyber Safety unit for elementary school students. Target audience is 6th grade. Students will learn that online: they leave footprints, there is no anonymity, information is valuable, online actions have real consequences, and once you put something out it may never come back.