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Aim of the Badge: To take on a robotics challenge so Brownies can experience for themselves that STEM learning is fun

Complete four activities around robotics, using LEGO Education Materials

Activity 2: Discuss how robots are designed and built. Design your ideal robot, explain the design, why you chose particular parts and materials, the tasks it is able to do and why you chose these tasks.

Outcomes: Girls develop an awareness of robotics and the benefits of incorporating robotics into everyday life.

Girls explore their own engineering, design and creative thinking skills through creating their own robot and discussing its functions.

Girls develop communication skills through sharing their learning.

Resources

- White A4 paper

- Pencils

- Colouring materials (crayons/coloured pencils)

- Laptop/tablet and projector/tv if available

If your Unit does not have access to AV equipment, consider share the links with parents in advance and asked that they be viewed at home for discussion at the meeting.

Instructions

Building on the discussion in Activity 1, as a Unit, discuss how robots are designed and built.
• What materials are used to build robots?
• What type of functions do they have?
• Who designs and builds robots?
• Who tells them what to do? How might they do that?
• Where else might robots be useful in our everyday life?
• When might a robot be useful in our everyday lives?

For further insights, using the av equipment of your choice, show the following 2 YouTube videos from Boston Dynamics demonstrating the versatility of robotics as well as the materials that may be used in their construction.

https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw or https://youtu.be/tF4DML7FIWk


Following the general discussion, share the requirements of this activity to design their ideal robot and be prepared to share the following within their Sixes (or as a Unit):
1. Does your robot have a name?
2. Share your design with us.
3. Why did you choose particular parts and materials?
4. What tasks is your robot able to to do?
5. Why did you choose these tasks?

Definition of a Robot

A robot is a type of automated machine that can execute specific tasks with little or no human intervention and with speed and precision.

A robot is a machine, that is programmable by a computer, that is capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to look like the human form, but most robots are task-performing machines.

Tags

• robot
• robotics
• STEM
• Video

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