I borrowed the Tale-Bots from the TTL in School of Education and headed out to Unionville Elementary. They had some Bee-Bots, so we were able to pair kindergarten students up on a bot.
We talked about what it meant to be robotic (sense, think, act) and which directions our typical bots can move (forward, backward, turn right, turn left). Then we let them code their bot to do whatever they wanted. Some of them I asked to code the bot to go around its box. Many really enjoyed the “dancing” that the Tale-Bot did.
We switched bots half way through our time so they got to work with both.
At the end, we came together and summarized what we learned and re-enacted the what a bot does when you press certain buttons (I held up examples of the button – i need bigger cards to hold up)
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