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We investigate how the integration of visual agent-based programming andcomputationally augmented physical structures can support curricularintegration across STEM domains for elementary grade students. We introduceViMAP-Tangible, a socio-technically distributed computational learningenvironment, which integrates ultrasonic sensors with the ViMAP visualprogramming language using a distributed computation infrastructure. In thispaper, we report a study in which 3rd and 4th grade students usedViMAP-Tangible to engage in collaborative design-based activities in order toinvent 'drawing machines' for generating geometric shapes. The curricularactivities integrate engineering practices such as user-centered design,mathematical reasoning about multiplication, rates and fractions, and physicalscience concepts central to learning Newtonian mechanics. We identify the keyaffordances of the learning environment and our pedagogical approach in termsof the relationship between the structural elements of students' physicalconstructions and computational models, and their learning outcomes, both interms of computational thinking, and the domain-specific, mathematical andscientific knowledge that they began developing.

Integrated STEM in Elementary Grades Using Distributed Agent-based Computation