Decorate your Bee-Bot

It's the season to be jolly....... and so should be our bee-bots.

The bee-bots want to feel the christmas spirit so we the grade 5 students worked in groups and decorated them. Have a look at what we did.

This activity was also created to take part in a competition created by Junior News of The Times of Malta. The competition was called Decorate your Bee-Bot.

 The students loved transforming their bee bots. Now let's hope for the best!

Christmas warms the motor of our Bee-bots :-)

See us preparing.......

and here they are! 

Our decorated Bee-Bots

After they decorated the bee-bot they had to complete the slogan:

My Bee-Bot would like a buddy because.....

Below are some of their slogans. Not all of them were clear enough to put on the blog but I eventually managed to get the clear version from everyone to have a good understanding of what they wanted to say.

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Robotics

The children were lost in the world of LEGO^® while using the WeDo™ Robotics Construction Set. They set off to all sorts of adventures while they skillfully build different models. Various motors and sensors were attached while they programmed their robots with great enthusiasm. The look of satisfaction on their faces on completion of their project was priceless. The world of animals was explored as they built lions, monkeys, birds and crocodiles. Birds chirped and danced while lions lied down when they shook its bone. A particular sport was also a hot topic. The excitement grew when two groups in a particular class teamed up to create a penalty situation in football. One group did a mechanical kicker while the other builds a goal post with a goalkeeper. They were over the moon when this experiment was a success. It had all the class cheering for them. These kinds of activities help you explore a series of cross-curricular links and theme-based activities while developing their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as language and literacy. It is a perfect tool to trigger their imagination in all sorts of wonders. No need to say more! Below are some examples of what they did. Don't forget to click on the video!

Carefully building their model

Getting closer...

 

And here it is!

Time to program it to move!

Click on the video to see some of the robotics created.