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Challenge:
Challenge:
- Design your Sphero for battle with a ‘horse’ (plastic cup) decorated with a noble caparison and adorn your ‘lance’ (a pencil) with a banner of your house.
- Then program your Sphero to joust!
- Be the last knight standing or the first to unhorse your opponent.
Day 1 - Design and Build Day
Day 1 - Design and Build Day
Before you get your "horse" (cup) complete tasks 1-3:
Before you get your "horse" (cup) complete tasks 1-3:
1. Analyze Sphero Joust Videos
1. Analyze Sphero Joust Videos
2. Joust History
2. Joust History
3. Decorate your Banner and attach it to your Joust (pencil)
3. Decorate your Banner and attach it to your Joust (pencil)
-Supplies for banner and pencil are on back work tables.
-Supplies for banner and pencil are on back work tables.
1- Learn from those who have come before
1- Learn from those who have come before
Watch the videos of other Sphero jousting and answer the questions with your team's observations.
Video #1
Video #2
Video #3
3- Display Your Honor
3- Display Your Honor
Decorate a banner, after you have cut your chosen banner out, drape it over your lance (a pencil!) in preparation for the tournament.
Design Your Knight and Jousting Cover
Design Your Knight and Jousting Cover
Complete parts 1-3 to receive your horse (cup)
Complete parts 1-3 to receive your horse (cup)
Think about how you might fabricate a jousting cup to rest on top of Sphero to act as your knight.
Decorate your horse (cup) and lance (pencil) and prepare for battle!
- What materials would you need?
- How would it be constructed?
- If you use a cup, what options do you have regarding where the lance is attached and how?
- Which might be most effective, and why?
Day 2 - Build and Test
Day 2 - Build and Test
Before you get your "horse" (cup) complete tasks 1-3:
Before you get your "horse" (cup) complete tasks 1-3:
-Supplies for banner and pencil are on back work tables.
-Supplies for banner and pencil are on back work tables.
Test out a design before we battle
Test out a design before we battle
NGSS Standards:
NGSS Standards:
MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
ISTE Standards:
ISTE Standards:
Innovative Design - 4c: Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
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