Junior Robotics with LEGO WeDo 2.0

This class is a perfect introduction to programming, robotics and mechanics. Your students will explore these concepts in a fun and interactive way. We use sensors, make noises and try to give our robot friends plenty of personality! This is a great opportunity for students as young as five to have a go with robotics technology.

Age range: 5-8 years old (Year 1-3)

Session Length: 60-90 minutes

Price: $6.50 per child per hour (Minimum $80 per hour)

Capacity: Up to 32 children

Key Concepts

- - Robots are machines.
- - We can give our robot instructions using code.

- We need to tell our robot exactly what we want it to do - robots are not very clever by themselves.

Lesson Description

Students use an iPad and the LEGO WeDo 2.0 app to code a small driving robot, then build it. Once the class has completed the basic build, students investigate a motion sensor and experiment with their code, producing sound, changing direction and speed.

Learning Outcomes

We are learning to:

- - Use coding apps on touchscreen devices
- - Build simple mechanical LEGO models
- - Follow pictorial instructions

Curriculum Links

Technological Knowledge: (Levels 1-3)
- Understand that technological systems have inputs, controlled transformations, and outputs.
- Create and continue sequential patterns.

Nature of Technology: (Levels 1-2)
- Understand that technological outcomes are products or systems developed by people and have a physical and a functional nature.

Computational Thinking: (Progress outcomes 1-2)
- Use algorithms to create simple programs involving outputs and sequencing in age-appropriate programming environments.

Key Competencies

- Thinking:
- Students engage in computational thinking skills to understand how their robot receives and processes instructions and information.
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- Using language, symbols and text:
- Students think about appropriate instructions for a robot with wheels, and build from pictorial instructions. Students translate their ideas into code using symbols and image based coding language.
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Pre and Post Visit Resources
More resources are coming soon, but in the meantime why not check out our simple engineering challenge A Chair for Bear? It's a great task to get your students thinking about the design process.
We also have a blank engineering design process that you can adapt to suit the needs of your class.
Feel free to download any of our free worksheets.

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