The students love it when they get to use robots to learn with!
Coding & Robotics
Racing Sphero “Cars”
On the last day of school, each student used a paper cup to make his or her own “car”.
The cars were of lots of different makes and models. Some even included windshields.
Then the real fun began! The students used our Sphero robot to power the cars and raced the cars down a track they had created. Some cars couldn’t quite keep up with the speedy Sphero, but no one cared. As you can hear below, it was a lot of FUN.
Learning with Coding and Robots
Lots of fun with making codes and programming robots this week…
…with the Scratch app…
…with the Ozobot…
…with the Sphero…
…and with the KIBO.
Programming the Bee-Bot
Look at us learning to code our Bee-Bot! The students worked in groups to lay out a sequence of commands that would get the robot to a pre-determined square. Look to see all the different ways the groups of children tried to get the Bee-Bot to the same place. There was lots of trial and error learning and eventually the students discovered that there were many ways to accomplish the same task.
Images From Our Week
Here is some of the learning we did this week.
Learning more and less with the Bee-Bot…
Learning a new app…
Playing math games…
And learning to program robots.
Trying the Ozobot
The latest robot to enter our classroom is the Ozobot. This robot is programmed by using black lines and various colour combinations. The students all tried their hand at creating paths for the Ozobot to follow. Once the designs were made, it was time to check to see if Ozobot would follow the path they had created. Sometimes, a redesign was needed. Check out some of the creative paths the students designed!
