STEM Lesson Plan & Activities - SPHERO Year 7


Sphero and Mathematics – Measurement – Yr 7
Lesson zero
Sphero familiarisation
This lesson enables students just to play and explore before the formal lesson starts
Lesson one
Structured task to test dexterity with tool
Linked to measurement outcomes with regular and irregular shapes
Basic coding
Area and Perimetre
https://edu.sphero.com/cwists/preview/6920x
Lesson Two
Revisit last lesson skills
Reinforce basic coding
Repeat but create shapes with perimeter of 30 units
How many different area?
Max and Min
Lesson 3
Repeat with fixed area and changing perimeter
Exploring a different concept with the same tool
Lesson 4/5/6
Let’s try the garden bed task
Use scale ratio 1:5 to enlarge the garden bed from below
Insert ratio lesson in mathematics
This is extending the mathematics content to include scale and ratio as the tool needs a bigger area to allow for error
Lesson 7
Teach Billiard Problem on paper
https://mathforlove.com/lesson/billiard-ball-problem/
Lesson 8/9
Now create and code this to work with the sphero
This will enable the students to test out the accuracy of their predictions and the accuracy of their coding
All should exit either TL TR BL BR
Is there a pattern