Coding Journeys
Which robots best fit your students’ skills and interests? These activities will help you find out!
These coding adventures help you and your students compare Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, and Pro-Bot.
The activities, based on different types of journeys, use Terrapin’s free Online Emulators that run in a browser window.
Students practice coding as they learn to use the special features of Bee-Bots, Blue-Bots, and Pro-Bots.
Their coding skills will develop as they progress from simple to more complex challenges.
In each section, students can start with simple moves and turns, then expand to using angles and loops. Students will experience the wide range of these robots’ capabilities. Some of the challenges are quite tricky! Students can work in pairs to complete them. Have them record the commands they used.
Tips and lesson ideas are at the right side of each mat. Students can save their completed projects (or works-in-progress) using the ‘Save’ button. The code is saved in the Downloads folder of the computer.
Park Your Car
| Bee-Bot Parking |
Blue-Bot Parking |
Pro-Bot Parking |
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Snakes and Ladders Game
| Bee-Bot Game |
Blue-Bot Game |
Pro-Bot Game |
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Go on a Drive
| Bee-Bot Drive |
Blue-Bot Drive |
Pro-Bot Drive |
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Visit an AI City
Just for fun, we asked Adobe’s Firefly AI image generator (free account required) to create some mats for our ‘bots. The prompt we gave was “Create a square drawing of a very simple grid of streets in a small town, looking straight down.” They are not as simple as we would have liked, but they are fun to explore!
| Bee-Bot AI City |
Blue-Bot AI City |
Pro-Bot AI City |
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Shape Journeys
| Bee-Bot Shape |
Blue-Bot Shape |
Pro-Bot Shape |
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Number Sum Journeys
| Bee-Bot Number Sums |
Blue-Bot Number Sums |
Pro-Bot Number Sums |
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Time Travels
| Bee-Bot: By Land |
Blue-Bot: By Sea |
Pro-Bot: By Air |
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Walk Through the Dictionary
| Bee-Bot ABC Order |
Blue-Bot ABC Order |
Pro-Bot ABC Order |
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Amazing Mazes
| Bee-Bot Maze |
Blue-Bot Maze |
Pro-Bot Maze |
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Visit the Zoo
| Bee-Bot Zoo |
Blue-Bot Zoo |
Pro-Bot Safari |
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Word Journeys
| Bee-Bot Colors |
Blue-Bot Animals |
Pro-Bot Compound Words |
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Climb a Mountain
| Bee-Bot Mountain |
Blue-Bot Mountains |
Pro-Bot Mountain |
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Be a Moon Rover
| Bee-Bot Moon Rover |
Blue-Bot Moon Rover |
Pro-Bot Moon Rover |
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Travel the USA
The map is the same for all robots, but you can create easier or harder challenges, depending on the robot and your students.
| Bee-Bot USA Map |
Blue-Bot USA Map |
Pro-Bot USA Map |
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Image credits
Pro-Bot Safari Map:
Image by macrovector on Freepik
Other free images from pixabay.com and stock.adobe.com.
