STEM and Digital Technology Activities STEM Lesson Plan & Activities - MBOT Year 7

Year 7

Building mBot robots and understanding how they work

Lesson	1
Resources	mBot
Lesson Goals	Build the mBot
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Build their own mBot Design your own mBot body
Closing Summary
Goals Achieved

Lesson	2
Resources
Lesson Goals	Introduction to using mBot controls
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Explore the controls Learn basics of mBot such as movement, rotation, sound, lights, colour detection
Closing Summary
Goals Achieved

Lesson	3
Resources
Lesson Goals	Choose a recipe and learn where different foods come from in Australia
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Find a recipe Source each ingredient to its Australian origin Find out about the place and the conditions where that grows
Closing Summary
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Lesson	4
Resources
Lesson Goals	Learn programming (specific) to move robot around Australia
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Robot moves from location to location Robot says the name of the place and how the food is grown there. Can be detected by colour or by following a line. Robot is able to simulate how the food is harvested Robot detects each food based on colour
Closing Summary
Goals Achieved

Lesson	5
Resources
Lesson Goals	Produce a large map of Australia that has all the key ingredients on it
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Creation of map Production of models of each ingredients
Closing Summary
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Lesson	6
Resources
Lesson Goals	Cook recipe this session
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Students should have sourced all ingredients before moving onto the recipe
Closing Summary
Goals Achieved

Lesson	7
Resources
Lesson Goals	Ordering food and catch up time
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Coding sorted Order sorted Map complete
Closing Summary
Goals Achieved

Lesson	8
Resources
Lesson Goals	Demonstrate all learning across the previous 7 sessions
Introduction/ Motivator
Activity	Your family will be coming to watch you present Final sequence: The robot starts in Perth on the map and heads to each location around Australia EG Carnarvon for bananas, Wheat Belt for Wheat, Barossa Valley for grapes. Upon arrival at each place the robots tell the audience about the food, where it’s from, how it is grown and harvested. Each ingredient is moved back to Perth and dropped off. Robot tells us the recipe and they students bring out the food they have prepared day before.
Closing Summary
Goals Achieved