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Description
Grades 1–3. Learners build fully functional robots using Cubelets®, the Modular Robotics® building blocks, in 12 one-hour lessons centered around collaboration, social-emotional learning, the engineering design process, and a growth mindset. This program utilizes scaffolded lessons to expand upon each activity's objectives as learners harness the power of STEM to make robots move, sense, and adapt to their surroundings. Comes complete with curriculum and materials for 30 students.
Product Details
The BOTs Are Back
Grades 1–3. With the Cubelets® BOT Builder program, learners build a variety of fully functional robots using Cubelets®, the Modular Robotics® building blocks. From the Waddle-Bot that runs in circles to the Rodeo-Bot that bucks like a bull, Cubelets® Bot Builder utilizes scaffolded lessons to expand upon each activity's objectives as learners harness the power of STEM to make robots move, sense, and adapt to their surroundings.
With 12 one-hour lessons centered around collaboration, social-emotional learning, the engineering design process, and a growth mindset, you're ready to introduce your youngest roboticists to a lifelong love of STEM!
Product Features
- Complete program includes materials and curriculum
- Designed for up to 30 students
- Includes 12 one-hour activities
Curriculum Topics:
1. Machine or Robot?
2. Iterative Design Process
3. Robotic Design
4. Inputs and Outputs
5. Sensors
6. Equilibrium
7. Collision Avoidance
8. Combining Blocks
9. Complex Systems
10. Biomimicry
11. Bot Bonanza!
Each Activity Includes:
- Schedule
- Opening and closing discussion
- Topic background and vocabulary
- Step-by-step activity instructions
- Materials list
Recommended Settings:
- Summer camps
- Classrooms
- Out-of-school time programs
- Home learning
- Libraries and makerspaces
Tech Requirements:
- One Bluetooth®-enabled device for occasional software updates
Professional Development:
- Includes a free 1/2-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $500+
- Includes a free 1-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $1,000+
- Additional training available for purchase by special request
21st-Century Skills:
Helps students develop a set of widely applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.
- Communication and collaboration
- Creativity and innovation
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Information, media, and technology literacy
- Initiative and self-direction
- Leadership and responsibility
- Productivity and accountability
- Social and cross-cultural skills
Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.1/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1–3 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Next Generation Science Standards*
- K-2-ETS1-1: Engineering Design
- K-2-ETS1-2: Engineering Design
- 3-5-ETS1-3: Engineering Design