STEM Lesson Plan & Activities - EDISON ROBOT Year 5


Digital Technologies Lesson Plan Year 5
Background: In Carnarvon there isn’t always a surgeon or qualified staff to assist in emergencies, so sometimes you need to be flown out by the Royal Flying Doctors to be transport to Perth. Students are to create a map for a driverless vehicle (ambulance) to transport the patient from the hospital to the airport. Path: Depot to Hospital to Airport and back.
Tool: Edison Robot
Lessons:
- Watching a video of the Mercedes driver less car
Discussion – Padlet interactive conversation with peers
- Show students how the Edison Robots work. Have students experiment with them and use the website www.edblocksapp.com to create a path. Add problems for students to complete after experiment e.g. how to get from A to B.
- On Edblocksapp measure the angles for each second of turn various speeds and record – Problem: guess speed and second turns required for various intersections in town and then measure.
- Introduce the problem – See background information. Provide a map -Students begin their planning/coding for transport from the Depot to Hospital at this stage. Extension – Converting codes to realistic scales
- Test running track – Debugging and fix any issues (Depot to Hospital)
- Planning/coding of transport from the Hospital to Airport.
- Test running track – Debugging and fix any issues (Hospital to Airport). Also test the whole track.
- Final test drive vehicle from depot - hospital -airport and back.
Assessment: Peer evaluation