Coding “panellets” with Bee-bots

Language: English

Description

To experiment with the Bee-bots and introduce coding.

Scientific concept introduced

Coding the bee-bot creating a path.

Creative and critical thinking

To observe how the Bee-bots move after coding/programming them.

Mathematical reasoning

To put the correct directions to code so that the bee can get to the ingredient.

Scientific thinking

Designing the path. Use of digital tools.

Learning how to learn

Sel-discipline and self-regulated learning. Motivation to learn and enagae.

Additional

Sharing responsibility for a task, accepting leadership and management, sharing ideas, listening with comprehension, communicate with others.

Coding “panellets” with Bee-bots

Overall aims

To experiment with the Bee-bots.
To code the Bee-bots to follow a specific path.
To apply orders to code learning
To identify the ingredients of panellets.

Vocabulary – keywords should be understood

Bee-bot, coding, path, left, right, up, down, ingredients (potatoes, almonds…).

Expected learning outcomes (operational aims)

To create a path for the Bee-bot to follow
To enjoy the activity
To promote technologies
To foster coding skills.
To follow rules

STEM skills – to which the learning unit is related to

CORE STEM SKILLS

To experiment with the technologies.
To create a path for the Bee-bot
To code the Bee-bot

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

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Teaching methodologies/activity outline

We will present the Bee-bot inside a blanket as if it was sleeping. The children will have to sing a song to wake the bee up. Once the bee is up they will remind the children how Bee-bots work and the rules to make it work.

Remind the children that they have to before starting to code and then they have to go when they want to execute it.

Children will be sitting on the floor in a circle. They will put the mat on the floor with the pictures of the ingredients of the “panellets”.

First the dough ingredients: boiled potato, ground almond, and sugar vertically on the mat, then the ingredients for the flavor: grated coconut, cocoa, and pine nuts horizontally.

That way, children will have to come together (cooperative learning) with what cards they need to code the Bee-bot to make the correct path.

What kind of “panellets” do we want? (grated coconut, cocoa, or pine nuts). They will have to code the Bee-bot according to what kind of panellets they want to make.