Bee Bot Balloon Pop
During this lesson, students will be required to consider the functions of the Bee-Bot and how a user can interact with this device. Students are asked to design a course challenge for another user which will result in the Bee-Bot, with a pin attached, reversing into a balloon to pop it. This lesson idea was created by Lauren Stanhope.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 3-4 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Algorithms, Computational thinking, Specification (decomposing problems) |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI4P02
Follow and describe algorithms involving sequencing, comparison operators (branching) and iteration |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Robotics and drones |
| Keywords | BeeBot, Mapping, Programming, Robotics, Coding, Data representation, CSER, Computer Science Education Research Group, Glenys Goffett, Lauren Stanhope, Inclusive Education, disability, disabilities |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Design and Technologies |
| Organisation | CSER |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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