Focus
Focus
Grades:
Grades:
Kindergarten and First Grade
Resources/Materials used with Blue Bots:
Resources/Materials used with Blue Bots:
- Grid mats: purchase from the site or DIY
- Arrow and command flash cards
- Story element cards from Goldilocks and The Three Bears and Three Little Pigs
- Tracking sheets to tally success and failures
Concepts/Skills:
Concepts/Skills:
- Basic Coding using directions: Left, Right, Forward and Backward
- Sequencing
- Estimating and planning
- problem solving/debugging
- Collaboration
Instruction:
Instruction:
- Begin with learning about bees
- Introduce Blue Bots and discuss what a "bot" is
- What is coding?
- How do you tell the Blue Bot what to do?
- Parts of the Blue Bot - what does each button do?
- Use arrow/command flash cards to show how "coding" works
- Students work together to create different codes
- Student challenge to get from one point to another point on the mat
- Students estimate and plan by using squares on the mat
- use arrows to create code first and then code the bee bot
- Introduce "sequencing" by reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, what happened first, second, third, etc.
- Student challenge to use story element cards on mat and code blue bot to follow sequence of story
- Students tracked success and failures with their partner
- When students failed they problem solved by figuring out the "bug" in their code to "debug" it.