Summary

Materials Needed

The following is a list of all the materials that are needed to complete the VEX GO Lab. These materials include student facing materials as well as teacher facilitation materials. It is recommended that you assign two students to each VEX GO Kit.

In some Labs, links to teaching resources in a slideshow format have been included. These slides can help provide context and inspiration for your students. Teachers will be guided in how to implement the slides with suggestions throughout the lab. All slides are editable, and can be projected for students or used as a teacher resource. To edit the Google Slides, make a copy into your personal Drive and edit as needed.

Other editable documents have been included to assist in implementing the Labs in a small group format. Print the worksheets as is or copy and edit those documents to suit the needs of your classroom. Example Data Collection sheet setups have been included for certain experiments as well as the original blank copy. While they offer suggestions for setup, these documents are all editable to best suit your classroom and the needs of your students.

Engage

Begin the lab by engaging with the students.

1. Hook

   Introduce students to the new goals of delivering a Crop to the Food Processor, producing Food, and then delivering the Food to the Red Tile in the Farm to Table Competition. Using what you learned about moving game objects in Lab 3, how do you think you might get the Crop to the Food Processor? What do you remember about working as a team in the previous Labs, that could help you be a good teammate in this competition? 

2. Leading Question

   How do you think you will need to move your Hero Robot to score points in this competition?

3. Build Competition Base + Competition Advanced

Play

Allow students to explore the concepts introduced.

Part 1

Introduce the goal of the Farm to Table competition, and how to remove the Crop from the rows, so it can be transported to the Food Processor Tile on the Field. Then model how to connect a Brain to VEXcode GO, and use the Drive tab to drive the Hero Robot to move a Crop to the Food Processor, press down on the Food Processor to produce Food (with the robot or by hand), and then deliver the Food to the Red Tile on the Field. Students will take turns driving the Hero Robot to complete the Village Engineering Construction Practice Activity.

Mid-Play Break

Students will talk about how they worked as a team to figure out their driving strategy to deliver the Crop to the Food Processor, produce Food, and then deliver the Food. They will compare and contrast strategies between teams, to help them learn more about how to be successful with these tasks in the competition. Teams will discuss how these tasks are sequential which is different from any other Lab so far. 

Part 2

Students will apply what they practiced in Play Part 1 to participate in the Farm to Table Competition! Each team will try to score as many points as they can in a one minute match, by delivering Crops, producing Food, and delivering Food to the Red Tile on the Field with the Hero Robot.

Share

Allow students to discuss and display their learning.

Discussion Prompts

• What went well for your team in the competition? What would you do differently next time? 
• What is one thing that you did to help your team develop a robot design or strategy for the competition? What is one thing your teammate did that was helpful to your preparation for the competition? 
• What have you learned about driving or designing the Hero Robot to deliver the Crops or Food that might be useful in future competitions?