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Grades 1–3. Calling all programmers and musicians! Rockin' Robots is your chance to use Sphero indi robots on a guided tour through the STEAMtastic fusion of music and robotics. If exploring songs, crafting instruments, investigating sound effects, and designing a melodic coding challenge sounds fun, then this is the camp for you! Comes complete with curriculum and materials for 30 students.
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Bring Music to Life with Coding
Grades 1–3. Calling all programmers and musicians! Rockin' Robots is your chance to use Sphero indi robots on a guided tour through the STEAMtastic fusion of music and robotics. If exploring songs, crafting instruments, investigating sound effects, and designing a melodic coding challenge sounds fun, then this is the camp for you!
Product Features
- Complete program includes materials and curriculum
- Designed for up to 30 students
- Includes 12 one-hour activities
- Refill kit available (item #315631R)
Curriculum Topics:
1. Sound Effects
2. Physical Properties
3. Drums
4. Pan Flutes
5. Driving Robots
6. Practical Coding Activities
7. Coding Sphero Indi Robots
8. Music Scale
9. Song Components
10. Practice Music Courses
11. Music Course Design
12. Music Course Assembly
Each Activity Includes:
- Schedule
- Topic background information
- Materials list
- Optional extension activities
Recommended Settings:
- Summer camps
- Classrooms
- Out-of-school time programs
- Libraries and makerspaces
Tech Requirements:
- 6 tablets or Chromebook® computers with the Sphero Edu Jr app downloaded
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
- Social and cross-cultural skills
Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.A.1: Order 3 objects by length; compare the lengths of 2 objects indirectly by using a third object.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.A.2: Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.
Next Generation Science Standards*
- NGSS 1-PS4-1. Sound and Vibrating Materials
- NGSS 2-PS1-1. Investigating Properties of Matter
International Society for Technology in Education Standards
- ISTE 1.1.c: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
- ISTE 1.1.d: Empowered Learner Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
- ISTE 1.4: Innovative Designer Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions.
- ISTE 1.5.c: Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
- ISTE 1.5.d: Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.