Classroom Rules:
- Be in the lab, ready to work and learn when the bell
rings.
- Follow directions the first time they are given.
- Treat the robot kits with care and respect; they will be
used for years to come!
- Respect your fellow students' right to a quiet &
productive learning environment.
- Do NOT touch any of the machinery, tools or non-LEGO parts in the lab!
- Act like an adult, treated as an adult. Act like a child, treated as a child.
- Mr. Thompson dismisses the class, not the bell or clock.
As always, the school's student conduct expectations are
upheld. See the School Handbook for Parents and
Students for more detail.
Classroom Procedures:
- Start of class:
- Get out robots and kits
- Set-up work tables
- End of class:
- Put away/secure robots and kits (all extra parts
in storage box, robot in cubby-hole)
- Take-down and put away work tables
- Log out of computer, push in chairs, pick up
trash
- Robot kits
- You will be assigned a numbered Mindstorms kit
which you must sign for.
- If you lose or damage any kit pieces, you must
pay for the replacement.
- All robot kits and parts must stay in the lab or
designated area at all times.
- If you do not turn in a complete kit at the end
of the term, you will receive an incomplete until
the full kit is complete.
- Computer work
- Computers are to be used for class work /
projects.
- No food, gum or drinks around the computers.
- Late work:
- NO LATE work will be accepted unless a student
has an excused absence.
- Depending on the number of days of excused
absences, students will receive the same number of
days to make up the work missed.
- Students will receive 2 GRACE COUPONS to be used
for late assignments. The entire day's late
assignment will be accepted ONE day late only, with
one GRACE COUPON attached. Students will
self-correct the allowed late assignment during
individual/group work time in class.
- Once both GRACE COUPONS are used, late work
receives a zero. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Each unused GRACE COUPON earns the student 1 point
grace on the final test/project.
- Absences and Tardiness
- The school's absence & tardiness policies are
followed. See the School Handbook for
Parents and Students for more detail.
- Be responsible - find out what you missed and
make it up.
- Use it and lose it
- Cell phones, iPods, the like, ...; use it in class
and you lose it for the day.
Click here for downloadable copy
of the course syllabus, rules and procedures.