2nd Grade Activities - Mars Rover Here are some Robolab programs that we used with a second grade class at the end of a science unit about the space. Our topic was about the Mars Rovers. One of our astrophysicists talked about exploring Mars and showed this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UmRx4dEdRI We did the following activities with 4 classes of 24 students each. Each class was 45 minutes long. The students were divided into groups of three. Each group had a robot and a Mac laptop and a mentor. The three activities include: 1. Making their robot go around a mountain on Mars. We provided spray painted boxes that were about 2 ft x 2 ft x 3 ft. The students change the program to modify the distance traveled and the turn angle to get their robot back to its starting position. 2. Determine the incline of a mountain the robot can climb. The students were given a meter stick, a 2 ft x 3 ft white board, and dry erase markers. They run the program below and measure the height that the white board may be raised to before the robot flips over or can no longer climb. 3. Place the white board on top of the mountain. Using the program from number 1, change the program so that the robot stays on top of the mountain without falling off. |