Basic ball control with Sphero
Students are introduced to Sphero and its main features – direction, speed and colour. This lesson allows students to experiment through playing with Sphero and controlling it with the Sphero app. This lesson idea was created by Steven Payne.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | F-2 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
ACTDIP004
Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Robotics and drones |
| Keywords | Sphero, Programming, Robots, Directional language, Steven Payne, CSER, Computer Science Education Research Group |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Mathematics |
| Organisation | CSER |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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