Bee-Bots Keep on Dancing!
The
December
2022 "Dancing Bee-Bots!" story
in Bee-Bot
Buzz
inspired Suzy Kitchen, Education Director of the Roberson Museum & Science
Center in Binghamton, NY, to share how her team got Bee-Bots dancing! Here's her
story.
In
our "Bee-Bots Can Dance" activity, students write code and input it into
Bee-Bot. Then, when Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov's
"Flight of the Bumblebee" music starts, a student pushes GO!
"Bee-Bots
Can Dance" is a great way for K–1 students (and older kids, because they love
Bee-Bot) to practice their early computer science and digital fluency skills as
well as the early reading skill of left-to-right progression. They practiced
printing an arrow for the input as well.
We
used the "Bee-Bots Can Dance" in groups or individually. There are two different
sheets for recording commands. The first one is for four students to each write
a line of code and then input their commands into Bee-Bot. The second sheet is
for an individual or pair of students to complete.
Students
write a command with letters (Fd,
Bk,
Rt,
Lt)
or an arrow in each box on the sheet. When the boxes are filled, students enter
the commands (push the buttons) on Bee-Bot and hover a finger over the GO button
until the music starts.
The
"dance moves" are spontaneous and random when younger students code, but become
more formalized with older kids.
"Bee-Bots Can
Dance" sheets were developed by Binghamton City School District Challenge
Enrichment teachers.
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