Lab
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Drive to Grandmother's
- Students will have the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” retold to them, and will then turn their 123 Robots into a “Little Red Robot” character. After hearing the story, students will create a project to drive their 123 Robot to Grandmother’s house using Coder cards.
- Students will then move the starting point of the 123 Robot and build new projects to drive Little Red Robot to Grandmother’s house. They will test different combinations of “Drive 1,” “Drive 2,” and “Drive 4” Coder cards with the new starting point.
- Students will share their new projects and discuss how they decided which Coder cards to use.
Lab
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Watch out for the Wolf!
- Students will be introduced to the “Drive until object” Coder card and watch a demonstration of how this card instructs the Little Red Robot to drive until it sees an object. Then, students will test this project in their groups and consider how the Little Red Robot can tell when it arrives at Grandmother’s house.
- Students will learn about the Eye Sensor in the 123 Robot and how this sensor works with the “Drive until object” Coder card. The teacher will then introduce the Wolf character from the “Little Red Riding Hood” story.
- Students will learn that the Eye Sensor does not know what it sees, only that it sees something. They will expand on their project to include a Coder card, so that when the Little Red Robot spots the Wolf, it can scare the Wolf away. Students will then share their projects with the class and talk about why they chose to scare the Wolf with that particular Coder card.
