Building on the foundation of robotics explored in the previous lessons, students will spend the next 3 weeks designing, testing, and building a rover that can accomplish one of the desired functions to explore another planet. The unit will be divided into 3 main stages:
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Kyle Hess
2/28/2019 06:40:17 pm
Students started on their open ended projects today. I worked with two groups of students, one of which excelled with minimal input on my end (they started with one of the guided projects, but immediately started thinking of modifications to their robot that would get it to do other cool things on Mars). My second group was a little more distracted for the first 20-30 minutes. They seemed to be going through to routine of selecting a project and just building the robot. However, once they finished their robot and saw what my other group was working on, they started thinking of ways to modify their starting design to make achieve whatever job they were trying to accomplish.
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Raphael Cervantes
3/7/2019 04:40:47 pm
We tried to focus the groups more by having them go through a worksheet asking them about how they will design their robot. It wasn't successful for my group. But my group was more interested in building Lego structures than building robots.
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Angela Straccia
3/10/2019 05:28:44 pm
Another great day at Science Explorers. I worked with two individuals, one of whom was very self-directed and constructed (then deconstructed) a couple of different robots. While the other one was hesitant at first, she ended up becoming very interested in coding a drilling robot to spin based on the motion sensor. "This is fun!" she said. #futureladyengineer
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