Hummingbird MicroBit Kits

My #1 concern is losing and breaking parts. Please make that your #1 concern.

Once you complete the tutorials. You and your partner:

Design:

• Draw a sketch of your robot

• Must use a minimum of 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

• Label your design

Build

• Code your robot to work with 2 inputs and 2 outputs

• Follow your design and build your Robot out of cardboard

Tutorials

• Learning Portal - Start here for the tutorials to learn how to code the different parts.

• MakeCode - This is the coding platform that we will be using;

• Building - This page has tips and ideas on how to build robots with cardboard.

• Class Spreadsheet - Before you can build your own robot, you need to learn how to program the different parts of the Hummingbird. Check on the spreadsheet to see what you have left to do.

Research

• • The Research Process - A presentation that explains the research process

  • Indigenous People's Atlas - An encyclopedia that covers topics related to the Indigenous People of Canada

  • CBC Archives - An archive of content from CBC television and radio.

  • Curio - Curio is database of videos from CBC, BBC, and National Geographic. It contains news reports and documentaries on a variety of topics. Watch this video to learn how to login.

  • Canadian War Museum - Use the search function on the War Museum website to find digital resources and articles

  • Library and Archives Canada - The Second World War site for Library and Archives Canada. Contains primary sources that have been digitized and are searchable

  • Canada's History - An online magazine and non-profit group dedicated to Canadian History.

  • Canadian Military History and Heritage - The Government of Canada's records, research and publications about Canada’s military history, the Canadian Forces and the wars they fought.

  • Canadiana.ca - A non-profit group that is dedicated to preserving the documentary history of Canada. Contains a searchable database of digitized primary sources

  • Canadian Encyclopedia - A reliable, well-researched online encyclopedia covering Canadian topics.

  • Explora Database - Online database with access to hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and encyclopedia. Access this database and others by using the login found here.

Citations

• • Citation Skills

  • Chicago Style Guidelines

For part 3 of your Personal Music History project, you will be looking at music from your heritage. Read the assignment for details. Here are some links to help you get started with research

Research

Allmusic.com - This is an excellent source for biographies on musicians or bands. It has some articles on different genres but it is mostly a source for information about individual artists and groups.

artsandculture.google.com - Use the search function to find information. The site doesn't cover every culture's music but the ones that are covered have good information.

Smithsonian Folkways - The Smithsonian Folkways collection goes back to the very beginning of recorded music. Some of the earliest recordings of traditional music were done by Smithsonian Folkways. You can filter their catalogue by geography and genre.

World Music Network's Guide to World Music - The World Music Network is a record label and publisher of the Rough Guide series. The website has articles introducing readers to genres from all over the world.

Wikipedia - Lets be honest. You're going to use Wikipedia. It is a great place to start your research but don't stay there. Use Wikipedia to learn the key terms, people, and places for your topic. Use those keywords for further research. Also use the references at the bottom of a Wikipedia article to find other sources.

Citations

You must cite your sources for the information you use in your project. Refer to the Citation Skills page on this website for help with creating citations. Also, speak with Mr. Swandel in the library for help.

Hummingbird MicroBit Kits

My #1 concern is losing and breaking parts. Please make that your #1 concern.

Once you complete the tutorials. You and your partner:

Design:

• Come up with a concept for a robot. It must have a purpose or a story

• Draw a sketch of your robot

• Must use a minimum of 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

• Label your design

Build

• Code your robot to work with 2 inputs and 2 outputs

• Follow your design and build your Robot out of cardboard

Tutorials

• Learning Portal - Start here for the tutorials to learn how to code the different parts.

• MakeCode - This is the coding platform that we will be using;

• Building - This page has tips and ideas on how to build robots with cardboard.

• Class Spreadsheet - Before you can build your own robot, you need to learn how to program the different parts of the Hummingbird. Check on the spreadsheet to see what you have left to do.

Research

Social Science Resources

Statistics Canada - The official source for statistics in Canada. This link is to a browsable and searchable database of the 2021 Canadian Census.

• Census Program Data Viewer - This page on the Stats Can website creates maps of the census data which can show the breakdown of different data points by postal codes, neighbourhoods, cities, and provinces.

Semantic Scholar - An AI supported database of academic journals. Results can be filtered by PDF to find full text articles. Results also provide links to the articles cited in an article as well as other articles that cite the article. It is a great resource to citation chain together articles on a related topic.

Canadian Points of View Database - Part of our EBSCO databases that students have access too, this database provides articles on specific social and political topics. Each topic has an overview essay describing the issue and then point and counterpoint essays that argue two sides of the issue. Further articles related to the topic are also provided. It is a great resource for social science topics.

Nanos Research - A public opinion company that provides reports on various topics on which they survey the Canadian public.

Search Tips

These tips work in Google and most database search engines.

• Use "quotation marks" to find an exact match for a word or phrase

• Use a minus sign "-" to eliminate words from your results, e.g. dolphins -nfl will bring you results about the animal not the football team

• Use "site:" to search a specific URL, e.g. adding site:cbc.ca to your search will give you results from cbc.ca. Similarly adding site:.ca or any other URL country code will bring you results from only from Canadian sites or that other country.

• Use CTRL-F to search long articles for keywords.

Citations

In this course, you will be using the APA format for your citations. Please refer to the library page on Citation Skills for help on how to work in the APA format. 

You may wish to use the MyBib extension to help with creating properly formatted citations. There is also the citation tool in Google Docs.

Research

Art History Resources

Canadian Encyclopedia - A reliable source of information on Canadian topics or any topic but from a Canadian perspective. Each article is provided with a full citation for you. The site also has a Visual Arts in Canada Collection that maybe a good place to start if you are looking for artists to choose for your project.

Explora - Explora is the front page of all of the databases staff and students have access to in the OCDSB. The databases are a collection of magazine articles, encyclopedias, and academic journals. You can access them through the VLE or directly using the login information found here.

National Gallery of Canada - Use the search function in the top right corner of the gallery's website to search for your artist. The National Gallery has articles on each artist in its collection as well as images for their artwork.

Art Canada Institute - A not-for-profit organization based out of the University of Toronto. The ACI is mandated to promote the study of Canadian Art History. Use the search function in the top right to look up individual artists to find articles and essays on your artist.

Search Tips

These tips work in Google and most database search engines.

• Use "quotation marks" to find an exact match for a word or phrase

• Use a minus sign "-" to eliminate words from your results, e.g. dolphins -nfl will bring you results about the animal not the football team

• Use "site:" to search a specific URL, e.g. adding site:cbc.ca to your search will give you results from cbc.ca. Similarly adding site:.ca or any other URL country code will bring you results from only from Canadian sites or that other country.

• Use CTRL-F to search long articles for keywords.

Citations

In this course, you will be using the Chicago format for your citations. Please refer to the library page on Citation Skills for help on how to work in the Chicago format. 

You may wish to use the MyBib extension to help with creating properly formatted citations. There is also the citation tool in Google Docs.

Make a Poster

• slides.new - use this URL to create a new Google Slide deck

  • We will learn:

    • Images

    • Text

    • Icons

    • Layers

    • Grouping

• Autodraw - Design your own icons

• remove.bg - Remove backgrounds from any picture and video. This feature is already available in Adobe Express.

• Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

• Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

• Google Fonts - Search for the just right font for your text using various filters.

• Fontjoy - Discover font pairings

Hummingbird MicroBit Kits

My #1 concern is losing and breaking parts. Please make that your #1 concern.

Once you complete the tutorials. You and your partner:

Design:

• Draw a sketch of your robot

• Must use a minimum of 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

• Label your design

Build

• Code your robot to work with 2 inputs and 2 outputs

• Follow your design and build your Robot out of cardboard

Tutorials

• Learning Portal - Start here for the tutorials to learn how to code the different parts.

• MakeCode - This is the coding platform that we will be using;

• Building - This page has tips and ideas on how to build robots with cardboard.

• Class Spreadsheet - Before you can build your own robot, you need to learn how to program the different parts of the Hummingbird. Check on the spreadsheet to see what you have left to do.

Subculture Resources

Semantic Scholar - An AI supported database of academic journals. Results can be filtered by PDF to find full text articles. Results also provide links to the articles cited in an article as well as other articles that cite the article. It is a great resource to citation chain together articles on a related topic.

Subculture Examples and Theories - This site provides a summary of the importance of subcultures, how they form, different sociology theories to explain them, and a long list of examples of subcultures. It is a good site to learn some keywords to help you in further research.

Subcultures by Category - A list of subcultures hosted by Grinnell College students in Dr. Ross Haenfler‘s Deviance and Youth Subcultures course. This site also contains an excellent article defining what is a subculture.

Example - Incels

These are examples of articles that I found that look at the Psychology, Sociology, and the Anthropology of Incels as a subculture

Psychology 

Broyd, J., Boniface, L., Parsons, D., Murphy, D., & Hafferty, J. D. (2023). Incels, violence and mental disorder: A narrative review with recommendations for best practice in risk assessment and clinical intervention. BJPsych Advances, 29, 254-264. DOI:10.1192/bja.2022.15

Sociology

Hoffman, B., Ware, J., & Shapiro, E. (2020). Assessing the threat of incel violence. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 43(7), 465-587. Semantic Scholar. DOI:10.1080/1057610X.2020.1751459

Anthropology

[Bogeyj]. (2023, January 9). "Incel Music" Or Any Music That Gives Off "Incel" Energy In Your Opinion? [Online Forum Post] Reddit. Retrieved March 25, 2024, from https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/107l00g/list_incel_music_or_any_music_that_gives_off/?rdt=34895

Roberta, O. L., Holt, K., & Holt, T. J. (2022). An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(7-8), 4981-5008. DOI:10.1177/0886260520959625

Search Tips

These tips work in Google and most database search engines.

• Use "quotation marks" to find an exact match for a word or phrase

• Use a minus sign "-" to eliminate words from your results, e.g. dolphins -nfl will bring you results about the animal not the football team

• Use "site:" to search a specific URL, e.g. adding site:cbc.ca to your search will give you results from cbc.ca. Similarly adding site:.ca or any other URL country code will bring you results from only from Canadian sites or that other country.

• Use CTRL-F to search long articles for keywords.

Citations

In this course, you will be using the APA format for your citations. Please refer to the library page on Citation Skills for help on how to work in the APA format. 

You may wish to use the MyBib extension to help with creating properly formatted citations. There is also the citation tool in Google Docs.

Search Tips

These tips work in Google and most database search engines.

• Use "quotation marks" to find an exact match for a word or phrase

• Use a minus sign "-" to eliminate words from your results, e.g. dolphins -nfl will bring you results about the animal not the football team

• Use "site:" to search a specific URL, e.g. adding site:cbc.ca to your search will give you results from cbc.ca. Similarly adding site:.ca or any other URL country code will bring you results from only from Canadian sites or that other country.

• Use CTRL-F to search long articles for keywords.

Online Periodic Table of Elements

There are several online interactive periodic table of elements. These are a few to get you started.

Chemistry Talk - ChemTalk is a non-profit organization dedicated to barrier free access to science educaiton. Their interactive table contains lots of information beyond just the scientific details about the element. This would be a good source for information on the economic and social impact of your element.

ptable.com - This interactive table features a temperature control so you can see what elements are gas, liquid, or solid at different temperatures. It also contains all of the basic scientific information about the elements.

Royal Society of Chemistry - This table includes much of the same information as others but it features information on the currently available supply of each element which is not common in the other interactive tables.

Citations

In this course, you will be using the APA format for your citations. Please refer to the library page on Citation Skills for help on how to work in the APA format. 

You may wish to use the MyBib extension to help with creating properly formatted citations. There is also the citation tool in Google Docs.

Search Tips

These tips work in Google and most database search engines.

• Use "quotation marks" to find an exact match for a word or phrase

• Use a minus sign "-" to eliminate words from your results, e.g. dolphins -nfl will bring you results about the animal not the football team

• Use "site:" to search a specific URL, e.g. adding site:cbc.ca to your search will give you results from cbc.ca. Similarly adding site:.ca or any other URL country code will bring you results from only from Canadian sites or that other country.

• Use CTRL-F to search long articles for keywords.

Country Information

Canada International Trade Data - Information from the government of Canada to help businesses set up internationally. Data and market intelligence for export development, importing and foreign investment business planning.

CIA World Factbook - Yes, that CIA. It has information on every country in the world covering their geography, economy, government, and people and society. The site also has free to use photos, and maps of the countries.

Gapminder.org - This site presents data in interactive graphics that challenge preconceptions about countries around the world. The site also makes available for download all of the data behind their charts and graphs.

United Nations Country Profiles - Statistics and data on every country in the United Nations from the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affair broken down by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Citations

In this course, you will be using the APA format for your citations. Please refer to the library page on Citation Skills for help on how to work in the APA format. 

You may wish to use the MyBib extension to help with creating properly formatted citations. There is also the citation tool in Google Docs.

Tuesday

AI Powered Research Tools

ChatGPT - The most well-known generative language model. It is powerful but has limitations and should not be used without verifying the information it provides. According to the Open AI website, "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information." Any submission of text written by ChatGPT without proper citation will be considered plagiarism and referred to the administration for disciplinary action. Requires an account and is not approved for use by the OCDSB.

Elicit.com -  Ask a research question and get an AI generated summary of the top four results as well as links to academic articles related to your question. Requires and account and is not approved for use by the OCDSB

Perplexity.ai - Will answer your questions with an AI generated summary of the top results from an internet search with links to those results. Does NOT provide links to academic articles but is a good starting point to learn about a new topic. No account is required to use the basic features.

Semantic Scholar - A free, AI powered database for science and social science literature. No account is needed to access articles

Wednesday

Reading Academic Articles

Sample Academic Article - We will be reading this article together to learn how to effectively read academic articles.

Thursday

Writing An Essay & Citing Sources

Sample Essay - The beginnings of an essay to demonstrate how to take your research and write an essay.

Citation Skills - Resources from the Hillcrest Library on how and when to cite.

How to Cite ChatGPT in APA Format - Article from APA on the challenges of using ChatGPT and how to properly cite ChatGPT as a source in APA format.

Hummingbird MicroBit Kits

My #1 concern is losing and breaking parts. Please make that your #1 concern.

• Learning Portal - Start here for the tutorials to learn how to code the different parts.

• MakeCode - This is the coding platform that we will be using;

• Building - This page has tips and ideas on how to build robots with cardboard.

• Class Spreadsheet - Before you can build your own robot, you need to learn how to program the different parts of the Hummingbird. Check on the spreadsheet to see what you have left to do.

Search Tips

These tips work in Google and most database search engines.

• Use "quotation marks" to find an exact match for a word or phrase

• Use a minus sign "-" to eliminate words from your results, e.g. dolphins -nfl will bring you results about the animal not the football team

• Use "site:" to search a specific URL, e.g. adding site:cbc.ca to your search will give you results from cbc.ca. Similarly adding site:.ca or any other URL country code will bring you results from only from Canadian sites or that other country.

• Use CTRL-F to search long articles for keywords.

Legal Philosophers Resources

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - An up-to-date encyclopedia hosted by Stanford University in California. Each entry is written by an expert or group of experts in their field to the high academic standards of Stanford University

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has been around since 1995. Each entry provides detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information written by experts in their field.

Wikipedia - A good place to start your research but don't stay here. 

• Wikipedia is a good place to learn about your topic, and gather keywords, names, and places. 

• Use that information to find good information elsewhere. 

• Use the references at the bottom of a Wikipedia page to further your research 

• Wikipedia should not be cited in your essay

EBSCO Databases - Through the Student Portal you have access to databases with full text articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, and other publications. Many are peer reviewed and have reliable, quality information.

Legal News

Canadian Lawyer Magazine - This magazine has been around since 1977 covering the Canadian legal system. The site includes coverage of legal news and analysis of current issues in the legal profession in Canada.

First Peoples Law Report - First Peoples Law is an law firm dedicated to representing aboriginal people and aboriginal issues. Every week they publish the Aboriginal Law Report with a summary of current aboriginal law stories in the news.

Globe & Mail (Law) - This link is to the Law topic page for the Globe & Mail. The Globe & Mail is Canada's trusted national newspaper. Some articles may only be available behind a pay wall.

Law Times - The law times has covered the legal system in Ontario since 1990. It is associated with Canadian Lawyer Magazine (see above) and is a trusted source for Ontario legal news coverage and analysis.

Reuters (Law) - Reuters is a trusted international news service. This link is to its Legal topic page with its coverage of international law stories.

Citations

In this course, you will be using the APA format for your citations. Please refer to the library page on Citation Skills for help on how to work in the APA format. 

You may wish to use the MyBib extension to help with creating properly formatted citations. There is also the citation tool in Google Docs.

Task

• Check out the slide deck with all of the details for this task

Research & Bibliography

• Citation Skills - The library guide on how to cite your sources. Also includes a link to how to use the Google Docs citation tool.

Creating Infographics

• slides.new - use this URL to create a new Google Slide deck

  • We will learn:

    • Images

    • Text

    • Icons

    • Layers

    • Grouping

• Autodraw - Design your own icons

• remove.bg - Remove backgrounds from any picture and video. This feature is already available in Adobe Express.

• Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

• Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

• Google Fonts - Search for the just right font for your text using various filters.

• Fontjoy - Discover font pairings

Task

Once you have a good idea of who your mathematician is, create a one-page summary to share with the class

Include:

• Their name

• When were they born? Are they still alive?

• What is one of their notable accomplishments in mathematics? 

• A photo of the mathematician

• Make an argument for why your mathematician “the best” one?

Use visuals and texts

Research & Bibliography

• Citation Skills - The library guide on how to cite your sources. Also includes a link to how to use the Google Docs citation tool.

Creating Infographics

• Adobe Express- Sign in with Google and use your OCDSB account.

  • We will learn:

    • Images

    • Text

    • Icons

    • Layers

    • Grouping

• Autodraw - Design your own icons

• remove.bg - Remove backgrounds from any picture and video. This feature is already available in Adobe Express.

• Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

• Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

• Google Fonts - Search for the just right font for your text using various filters.

• Fontjoy - Discover font pairings

World War 1 Essay

Research

• • The Research Process - A presentation that explains the research process

  • Indigenous People's Atlas - An encyclopedia that covers topics related to the Indigenous People of Canada

  • CBC Archives - An archive of content from CBC television and radio.

  • Canadian War Museum - The First World War site for the Canadian War Museum. Contains digital content.

  • Library and Archives Canada - The First War site for Library and Archives Canada. Contains primary sources that have been digitized and are searchable

  • Canada's History - An online magazine and non-profit group dedicated to Canadian History.

  • Canadian Military History Gateway - The official online history collection for the Canadian  Military

  • Canadiana.ca - A non-profit group that is dedicated to preserving the documentary history of Canada. Contains a searchable database of digitized primary sources

  • Canadian Encyclopedia - A reliable, well-researched online encyclopedia covering Canadian topics.

  • Explora Database - Online database with access to hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and encyclopedia. Access this database and others by using the login found here.

Citations

• • Citation Skills

  • Chicago Style Guidelines

Creating Infographics

• Canva - Sign in with Google and use your OCDSB account.

• Autodraw - Design your own icons

• remove.bg - Remove backgrounds

• Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

• Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

• Google Fonts - Search for the just right font for your text using various filters.

• Mixfont - Discover font pairings

WeVideo

• Student's first time login to OCDSB WeVideo account

  • Login Instructions

• We will cover:

  • Signing in

  • Creating a Project (Podcast)

  • Recording audio

  • Editing

  • Save / Export / Share

• Here is a video of the lesson

Creating Infographics

• Canva - Sign in with Google and use your OCDSB account.

• Mistakes To Avoid - Presentation of examples of bad design in infographics.

• Autodraw - Design your own icons

• remove.bg - Remove backgrounds

• Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

• Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

• Google Fonts - Search for the just right font for your text using various filters.

• Mixfont - Discover font pairings

Research

• Stats Can - The official source of government statistics based on the Canadian census. The most reliable for Canadian statistics.

• Elicit.org - This AI powered search engine will answer your questions with sources from academic journals. Filter your results for PDF articles to get links to the full text of the articles.

• Perplexity.ai - This site uses AI to answer any question with a short paragraph answer that cites up to 5 sources for the information. Links to the sources are provided. It is a great place to start your research to get an overview of your topic

• ChatGPT - The AI tool that students love and teachers hate. There is a way to use ChatGPT that is ethical and helpful. Be aware that ChatGPT is unaware of the world after 2021 so if you are doing an assignment that is on a recent topic, it will not help or just make up stuff. Read this article for how to cite ChatGPT

• Google Scholar - The Google search tool for academic journals. Many results include links to the full text PDF article. 

• Academic Custom Search Engine - This is a custom search engine of over 20 academic databases with publicly available articles that are not behind a paywall.

• Explora - The online database for the OCDSB. Includes many of the databases that maybe behind a password or paywall in the results from the sources above. Access Explora and other databases using these logins. 

• Foreign Policy Resources - A collection of Government, NGO, and news sites related to Foreign Policy. Includes a link to a Google Custom Search Engine that will search all of the resources at once.

• CIA World Factbook - Yes, that CIA. This site is a collection of factual information on every country in the world. It covers the geography, resources, political organization, and more of each country. It is presented without comment or opinion and, despite being from the CIA, it is unbiased information.

• Country URL codes - A list of the top level url codes for each country, for example: .ca for Canada. Use these codes to limit a Google search to results from a certain country using the "site:" search operator, for example: "site:.ir" to search only results from Iran.

Creating Infographics

• • • Canva - Sign in with Google and use your OCDSB account.

    • Mistakes To Avoid - Presentation of examples of bad design in infographics.

    • Autodraw - Design your own icons

    • remove.bg - Remove backgrounds

    • Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

    • Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

    • Mixfont - Discover font pairings

Using AI for research

• Chatgpt

• Elicit.org

• Perplexity.ai

Databases

• Hillcrest Library Research Databases

Citing Sources

• Hillcrest Library Citation Resources

WeVideo

• Student's first time login to OCDSB WeVideo account

  • Login Instructions

• We will cover:

  • Signing in

  • Creating a Project (Podcast)

  • Recording audio

  • Editing

  • Save / Export / Share

• Here is a video of the lesson

WeVideo

• Student's first time login to OCDSB WeVideo account

  • Login Instructions

• We will cover:

  • Signing in

  • Creating a Project (Podcast)

  • Recording audio

  • Editing

  • Save / Export / Share

• Here is a video of the lesson

Annotated Bibliography Assignment - A task to help you with your research for an upcoming essay assignment.

Further Resources

• Research Presentation

• Citation Skills

• A sample paper using Chicago NB style, from Purdue Online Writing Lab.

Annotated Bibliography Assignment - A task to help you with your research for an upcoming essay assignment.

Indigenous Law Resources - A searchable, curated collection of resources on Indigenous Law in Canada

International Law Resources - A searchable curated collection of resources on International Law as well as links to databases of international treaties and the International Criminal Court.

Further Resources

• Research Presentation

• Citation Skills

• A sample paper using APA Style, from Purdue Online Writing Lab.

• Number Systems Assignment

  • Research Presentation

  • List of Numeral Systems (Wikipedia)

  • Creating Infographics

    • Example Infographic

    • slides.new

    • Autodraw - Design your own icons

    • remove.bg - Remove backgrounds

    • Colorzilla  - Colour Picker Extension

    • Colorspace - Create a palette of colours from a single colour.

    • Mixfont - Discover font pairings

• History Writing Assignment

  • The Research Process

• Creating Infographics

  • Tips and Tools with Google Slides

  • Digital Tools

  • Example Infographic

• Citation Skills

  • Chicago Style Guidelines

• Creating Infographics

  • Tips and Tools with Google Slides

  • Example Infographic

• Research Basics Presentation

• Citation Skills

Hummingbird MicroBit Kits

My #1 concern is losing and breaking parts. Please make that your #1 concern.

Once you complete the tutorials. You and your partner:

Design:

• Draw a sketch of your robot

• Must use a minimum of 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

• Label your design

Build

• Code your robot to work with 2 inputs and 2 outputs

• Follow your design and build your Robot out of cardboard

Tutorials

• Learning Portal - Start here for the tutorials to learn how to code the different parts.

• MakeCode - This is the coding platform that we will be using;

• Building - This page has tips and ideas on how to build robots with cardboard.

• Class Spreadsheet - Before you can build your own robot, you need to learn how to program the different parts of the Hummingbird. Check on the spreadsheet to see what you have left to do.

Hummingbird MicroBit Kits

My #1 concern is losing and breaking parts. Please make that your #1 concern.

Once you complete the tutorials. You and your partner:

Design:

• Draw a sketch of your robot

• Must use a minimum of 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

• Label your design

Build

• Code your robot to work with 2 inputs and 2 outputs

• Follow your design and build your Robot out of cardboard

Tutorials

• Learning Portal - Start here for the tutorials to learn how to code the different parts.

• MakeCode - This is the coding platform that we will be using;

• Building - This page has tips and ideas on how to build robots with cardboard.

• Class Spreadsheet - Before you can build your own robot, you need to learn how to program the different parts of the Hummingbird. Check on the spreadsheet to see what you have left to do.