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Florida School Prioritizes Engagement and Active Play in Every Classroom with Unruly SplatsHOMESTEAD, Fla., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- If you see students running down the hallways at The Charter School at Waterstone, they may be in the middle of a math lesson. The school is the first in the Miami-Dade area to use Unruly Splats, a STEM education tool that helps teachers combine coding and active play in subjects like math, science, PE, and even music. Unruly Splats look like big, colorful floor buttons that students stomp on to light up, make sounds, and collect points. Using an iPad or Chromebook, students can code them to create games like relay races, whack-a-mole, or games of their own design that promote movement and collaboration. "We look for ways to teach that make the content so engaging that there are no other distractors; the content is the distractor," said Kelli Barrios, Assistant Principal at Waterstone. "Unruly Splats are a tool for us to engage students in the content at hand, whether that's coding, math, or any other subject." Ms. Barrios brought Unruly Splats to the school in August 2020 with a goal to put STEM and engagement front and center in every class. Teachers like Veronica Estrada, an instructional math coach, now use Unruly Splats to inspire movement and active competition in their lessons, all while introducing them to coding concepts. "Gamification makes learning engaging and makes it easier for students with disabilities or special needs to participate," said Estrada. "Learning with Splats gets students moving, which is great for kinesthetic learners, and taps into students' competitiveness so that they can't help but pay attention," said Estrada. The Charter School at Waterstone now has 120 Unruly Splats that teachers use across grade levels to help improve engagement in a variety of creative ways:
Unruly Splats help schools fulfill a range of high-priority objectives including:
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