Bee-Bot's Bloom Hunt: Finding Flowers

In this lesson, you'll guide your students through a series of engaging Bee-Bot activities. They'll act as Bee-Bots, plan and input commands, and work in groups to guide a Bee-Bot to a flower on a grid. This lesson aims to enhance their programming skills and understanding of sequencing.

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1 Introduction
2 Planning directions
3 Whiteboard Demonstration
4 Flower Hunt Activity
5 Free Play
6 Wrap Up

1 - Introduction

In today’s lesson, we’re going to continue our Bee-Bot adventure with a series of fun activities that will help us become even better at programming and giving clear instructions. We’ll start by playing a game where you’ll get to act as Bee-Bots, following commands just like in the previous lessons. After that, we’ll move on to a whiteboard demonstration where we’ll guide our Bee-Bot to find a flower on the grid by planning and inputting the correct commands together. Finally, you’ll get to work in small groups to help your Bee-Bot find a flower on the mat by writing down the directions and testing them out. This lesson is all about practicing our programming skills and having fun with our Bee-Bots!

2 - Planning directions

In this lesson, our focus is on teaching students the importance of planning their instructions before inputting them into the Bee-Bot.

Demonstrate how to use a whiteboard to draw arrows and map out routes for the upcoming activities.

By planning their moves in advance, students will develop stronger problem-solving skills and a better understanding of sequencing, which are crucial for successful programming. This step ensures that when they input their commands into the Bee-Bot, they are confident and clear about the intended path.

3 - Whiteboard Demonstration

The goal of this game is to help the LadyBird-Bot find animals by giving it the correct commands. Begin by showing the students the interactive whiteboard game and explain that the LadyBird-Bot needs to find an animal on the grid.

Remember to emphasize planning your route before inputting them to the game!

4 - Flower Hunt Activity

Divide the students into small groups and provide each group with a Bee-Bot, a mat with a grid, flower printouts, and whiteboards with markers.

Explain to the groups that they need to choose a starting point for the Bee-Bot and place a flower on a different location on the grid. Their task is to write down the complete sequence of commands needed to guide the Bee-Bot to the flower by drawing arrows on their whiteboards.

Give each group whiteboards and markers and instruct them to draw arrows representing the directional commands (forward, backward, left turn, right turn) on the whiteboards. They should carefully plan and draw the sequence of arrows needed to move the Bee-Bot from the starting point to the flower.

Once the groups have drawn their directions, have them input the commands into the Bee-Bot according to their arrow sequences. After programming the Bee-Bot, let the groups test their commands by running the Bee-Bot on the grid.

If the Bee-Bot doesn’t reach the flower as intended, encourage the students to review their work and adjust their arrow sequences on the whiteboards before trying again. This process will help them understand the importance of precise instructions and the logic behind programming.

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5 - Free Play

If students finish the task early, encourage them to engage in free play with the Bee-Bots. This additional time allows them to explore and experiment with the Bee-Bots, helping them better understand how the commands work and reinforcing their learning through open-ended exploration.

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