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.
Do you want to know when new Coding Journeys are added? Sign up for Bee-Bot Insider email list and we’ll let you know!
How Does Your Garden Grow?
| Bee-Bot Garden |
Blue-Bot Garden |
Pro-Bot Garden |
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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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Explore the City
The Bee-Bot map is inspired by the subway route map in Boston.
We need your help to create Blue-Bot and Pro-Bot mats for transportation routes in your area!
Please submit your suggested route using our Customer Contribution Form.
It doesn’t have to be a subway map. It could be a bicycle route, a train map, or other map-related mat.
| Bee-Bot - MBTA |
Blue-Bot ??? |
Pro-Bot ??? |
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Pizza Party: Exploring Angles
| Bee-Bot Pizza |
Blue-Bot Pizza |
Pro-Bot Pizza |
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Find Me and Get Me Where I Need To Go!
| Bee-Bot Find Me! |
Blue-Bot Find Me! |
Pro-Bot Find Me! |
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Build a Word
| Bee-Bot Build-a-Word |
Blue-Bot Build-a-Word |
Pro-Bot Build-a-Word |
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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.
