Classroom Drone Essentials Plus
The Program
This Classroom Drone Essentials PLUS is a highly supported program where your students get introduced to the magic of drones, and you get supported to bring drones into your classroom with skills that will last beyond the program.
You will receive:
- Two personalised virtual teacher professional development sessions to help you bring microdrones into your classroom.
- 12 months access to our She Maps Membership with ready-to-teach resources and self-paced professional development
- 12 months of technical support
- A face to face Drone Fair for your students at one of our host locations
- The opportunity to compete in our Tournament of Drones competition
- A microdrones pack (if included in your grant package)
STEP
Teachers complete the professional learning
STEP
Students take part in the Drone Fair
STEP
Students compete in the Tournament of Drones
Step 1
Teachers complete the professional learning
Sign up for an individualised virtual professional learning program and gain confidence in bringing microdrones into your classroom.
We will cover equipment setup, classroom management, curriculum connection, skill development, and troubleshooting.
Classroom Drone Essentials
This is the foundation program for getting started with drones and is best suited for students in years 5-10.
We will show you how to take your students on a journey of being geospatial scientists for the day. We have resources to expose your students to great role models, challenge unconscious bias, explore applications of drone technology, understand safety and drone regulations, as well as learning how to fly and code educational drones.
You are entitled to 2 x 45 minute sessions.
Explore our Units of Work
You will be given access to our She Maps Membership, providing you with all the resources you need to continue the microdrones experience in your classroom.
Step 2
Students take part in the Drone Fair
We will introduce your students to manual and coded flight in real world scenarios. We will assess assess them against our Junior Drone Pilots Licence checklist, as well as demonstrate to teachers how to manage a class with drones.
The Drone Fair is held at one of our host venues, where we endevour to introduce the students to industry professionals or researchers who are using drones in their work.
This excursion is also designed to give you more ideas about how to effectively run a microdrone program in your school, as you will be given the opportunity to meet one of our Certified Instructors on the day.
Step 3
Compete in the Tournament of Drones
You have two options to choose from for this specialised STEM experience.
Standard Tournament of Drones
The She Maps Tournament of Drones registration opened in Term 3 and the competition will be judged at the end of Term 4. This is run as an internal competition in your school, with an opportunity to submit an entry to win five Tello EDU microdrones. This competition is open to any school nationally.
You can access all the current resources for the Tournament of Drones to run a successful day, including:
- Teachers Manual
- Posters
- Certificates
- Checklists
- Scoring Sheets
- Floor Plan
- Safety Signs
- Graphics
- Signage
- Event Run Sheet
- Email Templates
- Media Release
Healthcare in the Himalayas Challenge
The Healthcare in the Himalayas Challenge is a Tournament of Drones Challenge designed exclusively for our Drone Fair schools. This is run as an internal competition in your school, with an opportunity to submit an entry to win a 12 month licence to DroneBlocks. This competition is only open to Drone Fair schools.
You can access the Challenge resources below.
This Challenge is an extension to the Healthcare in the Himalayas unit of work that you can access from your She Maps Membership portal.
Entries close: Friday 16th December 2022
Winner Announcement: Early 2023
Email your Challenge results directly to Katie at [email protected]
Need Help?
We are here to help you be successful with this in your classroom!
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Email Katie at [email protected]
Katie Vidal is our Education Lead for this program, and is here to support you.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Yes you do. In your grant agreement, you would have applied for the purchase of drones and other equipment. When you schedule your online PL, Katie will confirm with you what equipment you have.
You can do the Drone Fair before you have completed your Professional Learning. Our Education team will ensure you are supported and an individual plan developed for you.
- You can start before your Drone Fair. Our Orbit membership provides you with all the information you need to run your in school drone program. We recommend you have your two PL sessions before flying. If you choose to start after your event that is perfectly acceptable.
- You can run either an in class program – particularly suited to a year and subject. The other option is to organise a drone club for the students that participated in the Drone Fair. We recommend that you start with the same program that was demonstrated at the Drone Fair – Classroom Drone Essentials.
- No you don’t. She Maps provides all the drones, tablets and safety equipment to run a face-to-face program.
- No, you do not need to be a certified drone pilot to run microdrone lessons in your school or drone club. We can provide you with guidance on the regulations and what you might need to comply with, or the right questions to ask.
- She Maps has consulted CASA on this and have done the hard work for you. In order to fly indoors we recommend clear flight lanes, safety areas to fly behind (like lines on the ground – doesn’t need to be drone cages), safety glasses and safety briefings at the start of the activity.
- If you need more explanation please read Can I Fly My Drone Indoors? This will give you a comprehensive breakdown of the CASA laws and how school drone programs apply.
- Unfortunately not. The Federal Government grant that you were successful for limits the face to face delivery component to being an excursion off site. This is a condition of the grant and not something we can change.
