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VEX 123 Activities

These activities offer more ways to engage with the 123 Robots, providing simple one page exercises that connect to the content and coding they are learning in the classroom.

They are designed to be easy to follow for independent student use, as an extension activity or in a Learning Center setting. With curriculum connections, they can also be part of a teacher’s lesson, or a scaffolding strategy to support differentiated learning.

Each one is designed with a base Play activity, which is built upon with Challenge prompts; “remixing” the skills and concepts students have been learning, and infusing computer science concepts into the curriculum in a seamless way.

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Literacy

Act It Out

A chart with spaces for three different emotions, each named and illustrated. The word Happy is written below a drawing of a sun and a cloud.

Have your 123 Robot help you tell a story.

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AI Literacy

Alien Planet Mapper

A 123 character looks surprised on an alien planet, and is announcing that water is detected.

Code the 123 Robot to find water on a distant planet.

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Coding

Around the Town

Top down view of connected 123 Field Tiles with a paper house surrounded by a road made out of paper that the 123 Robot could drive across.

Code your 123 Robot to drive to a friend’s house.

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Science

Block Pull

123 Robot connected by a string to a wooden block and an arrow indicating that the robot is pulling it.

Pull a block with your 123 Robot.

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AI Literacy

Bug Hunter

The 123 character investigates a block project through a magnifying glass while a bug character pops up beside the project.

Find the bug and fix the project!

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Math

Building a Tunnel

Top down view of a 123 Field Tile with a 123 Robot about to drive through a paper tunnel.

Drive 123 Robot to move forward and go under a tunnel.

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Coding

Clean Your Room

Top down view of a 123 Field Tile with 6 scattered pom poms and a 123 Robot.

Clean off a tile with your 123 Robot.

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AI Literacy

Code a Course

A 123 character points excitedly to a red ring on the ground beside it. Above its head a winding purple arrow path points to the ring.

Navigate a maze by color!

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Coding

Coder Fish

123 Robot with pipe cleaners representing a fish's fins and tail attached to the Art Ring.

Make your 123 Robot a fish, and code it to swim!

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Art

Coder Monster

123 Robot with pipe cleaners representing a monster's arms and eyes attached to the Art Ring.

Turn your 123 Robot into a monster with moves.

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Math

Corner Color

Top down view of a 123 Robot placed on the corner of a Field Tile, with a hand shown counting the spaces to the next corner as 2.

Make your 123 Robot glow in the corner of a tile.

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Coding

Crash and Debug

Top down view of a pom pom placed on the center of a 123 Field Tile.

123 Robot needs your help. Can you debug the code?

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Coding

Cross the Bridge

123 Robot using a cardboard bridge to cross over a Field Tile without touching it.

Code your 123 Robot to drive over the bridge

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Science

Cross the Finish Line

Top down view of a 123 Robot on one side of a piece of paper, with a black finish line drawn on the opposite side.

Code your 123 Robot to drive until it reaches the finish line to win the race!

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Coding

Fishbowl

123 Robot on a Field Tile, with pipe cleaners representing a fish's fins and tail attached to the Art Ring.

Make your 123 Robot a fish, and code it to swim!

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Art

Flamingos in the Wild

123 Robot with pipe cleaners and feathers representing a flamingo's tail and wings attached to the robot's Art Ring.

Drive your Robot Flamingo to walk and get a drink of water by the pond.

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AI Literacy

Hue Value Hunt

The 123 character looking curiously through a magnifying class at a spectrum of rainbow colors spread across its path.

Collect hue value data to learn about how the Eye Sensor perceives colors.

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Science

Invention Time

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, using attached pipe cleaner arms to push pom poms off of the tile.

Design and code 123 Robot to be an invention to clean your room.

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Art

Jellyfish Creation

123 Robot with pipe cleaners representing a jellyfish's tentacles attached to the robot's Art Ring.

Design and code your jellyfish in the ocean.

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AI Literacy

Lighting Technician

The 123 character looking proud, holding a lightbulb in its hand, shining over a spectrum of rainbow light above.

Change the lighting around the robot and see how the hue value changes.

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Math

Make 10

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with each square on the tile marked with a different number from one to nine.

How many ways can you code your robot to make 10?

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Math

More or Less

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile with two numbers written next to it, the first number is 13 and the other is 23.

Help your 123 Robot show the smaller number.

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Coding

Move Around

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with 3 pom poms placed on different squares and a marked path to avoid them.

Make your 123 Robot to move around things in its way.

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AI Literacy

Mystery Planet Mapper

A 123 character covers its eyes while standing on an alien planet and announces that water is detected.

Code the Eye Sensor to find water on a distant planet without using your eyes!

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Math

Path Finder

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with a path drawn across the Tile that the robot will follow.

Make your 123 Robot follow your lines.

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Art

Peacock Party

123 Robot with pipe cleaners and feathers representing a peacock's tail and face attached to the robot's Art Ring.

Design your 123 Peacock to strut with moves, actions and control coder cards.

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Science

Recycle Robot Rush

123 Robot with pipe cleaners attached to the robot's Art Ring to act as arms.

Create a tool for your Recycle Robot to move and collect trash.

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Coding

Red Fish, Blue Fish

Two 123 Robots on a Field Tile, with pipe cleaners representing a fish's fins and tail attached to the robots' Art Rings.

Make 123 Robots into fish, and code them to swim together!

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Literacy

Ring and Run

Top down view of the 123 Robot in the corner of a Field Tile, with a paper house placed on a square nearby.

Make your 123 Robot ring the doorbell and run away.

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Coding

Robot Bowling

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with tape marking a bowling lane with a paper bowling ball and paper bowling pins placed along it.

Let’s knock all the pins down with 123 Robot!

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Math

Robot Count

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with each square on the tile marked with a different number from one to nine.

Count with your 123 Robot.

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Coding

Robot Parade

A parade float of a Thanksgiving turkey is built and attached to the top of a 123 Robot's Art Ring.

Turn your Robot into a parade float and code it to parade through town!

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Math

Robot Race Car

Top down view of a 2 by 2 field of 123 Field Tiles, with a book in the middle and an X marked that the 123 Robot will start on.

Drive on a race track with your 123 Robot.

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Literacy

Robot Word Search

Top down view of a 123 Field Tile with a word search written on it, with a different letter in each square.

How many words can you find and spell with your 123 Robot?

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Art

Sailing Adventure

123 Robot with a paper sail attached to the robot's Art Ring with a toothpick.

Turn your 123 Robot into a sailboat and find the treasure.

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Coding

Space Race

Top down view of a 2 by 2 field of 123 Field Tiles, with a circle representing the moon in the middle and an X marked that the 123 Robot will start on.

Your mission is to drive your 123 Robot around the moon.

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Coding

Swim Together

Two 123 Robots with pipe cleaners representing a fish's fins and tail attached to the robots' Art Rings.

Make 123 Robots into fish, and code them to swim together!

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Science

Tow Truck Challenge

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with a pipe cleaner loop attached to the robot that can be used to drag pom poms across the field.

Program your robot to tow an object to the end of the tile.

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Science

Tower Crash

A tower built out of various classroom materials placed on a 123 Field Tile.

Drive 123 Robot to knock down your tower.

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Coding

Traffic Cone

Top down view of the 123 Robot and a paper traffic cone placed on a Field Tile.

Code your 123 Robot to drive past a traffic cone.

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Social-Emotional Learning

Training Your Pet

123 Robot with pipe cleaners representing a pet's head, tail and legs attached to the robot's Art Ring.

Code your Robot Pet to do a trick!

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AI Literacy

What is AI?

The 123 character looks upward questioningly, pointing to one of three word bubbles with question marks in them.

Play a round of AI or Not, then create your own definition of AI.

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Math

What Time Is It?

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with each square on the tile marked with a different time of day.

Code your robot to help practice telling time.

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Literacy

Word Play

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile, with the word Cat written across the tile with a letter in each square.

Spell and read a word with your 123 Robot.

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Math

Word Problems

Top down view of the 123 Robot on a Field Tile with two numbers written next to it, the first number is 1 and the other is 3.

Solve word problems with your 123 Robot!

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