Navigating Neptune with Ozobots®
Ozobot is a mini robot that in a didactic and entertaining way, introduces children to the world of logic, robotics and programming, essential skills for the new generations. It has sensors that detect and understand colors as code; called OzoCode.
Students will use color codes to create a flight path for the mission to Neptune. The object of the game is to be the first team to reach Neptune by completing drawing challenges!
Students will program their Ozobot to navigate the solar system on their way to Neptune. Students will cut out and assemble the paper planets on their OzoBoards. Students will practice drawing lines and color codes that Ozobot can follow to navigate around the solar system. Along the way students will learn some interesting facts about neptune and our solar system. Both luck and skill play a role through a series of fun timed challenges that require them to combine shapes and color codes. As students are successful, they will get to move closer to their destination.
While playing, students will learn how to use and program Ozobot. When using some of the variations to this game, they will also train their strategic and logical thinking. Students will need to collaborate to figure out which way Ozobot has to go and use directional codes to program Ozobot’s path.
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Students will:
- Learn about different types of robots.
- Discover how ozobot senses its environment and move in it.
- Learn visual programming by creating commands for ozobot to follow.
- Be able to identify planets and learn how they move in relation to one another.
Curriculum Focus:
- Robotics: line-following and color sensing
- Computer science: visual coding
- Inter-disciplinary: robotics, physics and math come together over the course of 4-weeks.