Code Farm Teacher's Guide

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🕵🏻‍♂️ Guiding Question: How do people train robots?

🔎 Lesson Overview

This activity introduces robots as they are used in modern agriculture and supports students in developing basic programming skills.

Students begin the lesson by drawing and describing robots and what they can do, then work together to come up with a working definition of a robot. They then watch a short instructional video about robotics before logging into the CoderZ platform. Students control the virtual robot using manual control, then practice using the coding interface to control the robot. They then reflect on what they have learned about how hardware and software interact in the virtual robots, as well as the robots they described in the beginning of the class.

💻 Lesson Slides and Speaker Notes

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🎯 Learning Objectives

Define a robot as a machine controlled by a computer
Use sensors and conditionals to control a robot's behavior

🏹 Assessment Guidance

Define a robot as a machine controlled by a computer

In the first reflection question (“What makes a robot different from other machines?”), ensure that students have explained that the robot is controlled by a computer program.