Design and Technologies - Build Your Own Bot

Subject Description

A highly interactive course that will engage students with a hands-on way to learn coding and robotics. The course can be seen as the beginning of Robotics studies at Tenison Woods College, with the ability to build on skills throughout the middle years of schooling. Robotics teaches students to use systems and structures to solve real world problems. It provides students opportunities to develop and trial solutions, they design and evaluate and integrate learning from science and mathematics into robotics. Computational thinking will allow our students to become the next generation of innovators.

Students will engage with the MBots and the smartphone software to code and program the bots. They will be engaged with a variety of problems for the bots to navigate through, culminating in a race to the finish line. They engage with Forms to submit information about their learning after each session, to enable them to then plan for their next task. Students will need to use critical thinking, and problem solving and develop their understanding of drag and drop programming. Students will be able to work at their ability level throughout the unit, pacing their learning to their individual understandings.