Let's Code a Robot for K-1st Graders

Students will use blocks to create programs that move a virtual robot.

Ms. Monica from ConstructU

382 total reviews for this teacher

Completed by 21 learners

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30 minutes

per class

Once per week

over 4 weeks

5-6

year olds

3-9

learners per class

per learner - per class

How does a “Multi-Day” course work?

Meets multiple times at scheduled times

Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher

Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries

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Description

Class Experience

Students will do more coding with blocks. They will use blockly code on an online site designed to manipulating an online VEX robot.  Each week after a short lesson that covers more sensors, different loops, if-then blocks, variables, and operations, students and teacher will create a simple program that manipulates the online robot in some way. Students will be assigned weekly homework that they can do alone or with a partner. During class, they will review homework with the teacher and the...

This class is a continuation of "Lets Code a Robot". During this class, students will do the following task.

Day 1:
5 min - Students will spend 5 minutes introducing themselves( name, age, grade, and state/country).
5 min - The teacher will Review Lesson on coding site
15min - The teacher will bring up a coding program then students will be given challenges to complete as a group. The teacher
will call on each student to help complete the challenge one or two lines on code at a time. The teacher will drag over
the block code and run the blocky program after each student. This will repeat until the challenge is solved
5 min - The teacher will discuss the homework which will reinforce the lesson. The teacher will post the homework in Outschool.

Day 2 :
5 min - Discuss Homework from the previous class. Students share homework with the teacher fo review.
5 min - Lesson: Drive train Speed and Pen
15 min - The teacher will bring up a coding program then students will be given challenges to complete as a group. The teacher
will call on each student to help complete the challenge one or two lines on code at a time. The teacher will drag over
the block code and run the blocky program after each student. This will repeat until the challenge is solved
5 min - The teacher will discuss the homework which will reinforce the lesson. The teacher will post the homework in
Outschool.
Day 3 :
5 min - Discuss Homework from the previous class. Students share homework with the teacher fo review.
5 min - Lesson: Loops
15 min - The teacher will bring up a coding program then students will be given challenges to complete as a group. The teacher
will call on each student to help complete the challenge one or two lines on code at a time. The teacher will drag over
the block code and run the blocky program after each student. This will repeat until the challenge is solved
5min - The teacher will discuss the homework which will reinforce the lesson. The teacher will post the homework in
Outschool.
Day 4 :
5 min - Discuss Homework from the previous class.
5 min - Lesson: Magnet and various playgrounds.
15 min - The teacher will bring up a coding program then students will be given challenges to complete as a group. The teacher
will call on each student to help complete the challenge one or two lines on code at a time. The teacher will drag over
the block code and run the blocky program after each student. This will repeat until the challenge is solved
5 min - The teacher will discuss the homework which will reinforce the lesson. The teacher will post the homework in
Outschool.

I am an Electrical Engineer but have been programming various languages for over 20 years. I also have been teaching VEX Robotics for over 7 years.

 They will be given a challenge and have to create code to solve it. Parents will need to help students with homework.

Website is vr.vex.com uses a block-based coding environment powered by Scratch Blocks. ... No software installations required.

30 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 0 - 1 hours per week outside of class.

Teacher

Ms. Monica from ConstructU

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ( STEM) Instructor

382 total reviews

297 completed classes

About Me

When my oldest son was in first grade, I picked him up from a play date. It was a cold winter day, and he had spent the entire time inside, playing on a gaming console. I understood that entertaining two active boys all day in the dead of winter...