Dancing with the Robots
Activity from Robotics for Young Children
Ann Gadzikowksi, STEM educator, researcher, and author of Robotics for Young Children: STEM Activities and Simple Coding, loves to observe children as they discover new ways to program robots and troubleshoot their code.
Her book is creatively organized into five main chapters that help answer children's questions about robots:
- Chapter 1: What is a Robot?
- Chapter 2: How Do We Build Robots?
- Chapter 3: How Do We Tell Robots What to Do?
- Chapter 4: How Do Robots Help Us?
- Chapter 5: How Can We Learn More About Robots?
In 100 engaging activities, many of which use Bee-Bot, children learn about, build, and code all types of robots.
Ann finds that children, in their excitement about coding robots to move, spontaneously begin to hop, turn, and dance with the robots! So, why not give Bee-Bot a dancing lesson?
Dances like the familiar “hokey pokey” require a full 360-degree turn. Coding Bee-Bots to do this is a great example of inquiry-based learning. Children are motivated by their own questions and goals to create and troubleshoot a sequence of commands to turn the 'bot in a complete circle.
In her book, and on our website, Ann offers a fun lesson called "Turn Round and Round" for Bee-Bot that illustrates the problem-solving that students experience in this activity.
Read her full Customer Story with the dance lesson.
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