First Graders Love Bee-Bots!
Source/Author: Jill Densa, First grade teacher
October 22, 2015
The first graders are learning how to use Bee-Bots. Bee-Bots are bee-shaped robots designed for use by young children. This colorful, easy-to-operate, and friendly little robot is a perfect tool for teaching sequencing, estimation and problem-solving. While having fun, the students are also learning about programming and coding.
Bee-Bots move in 6-inch steps and 90º turns. Directional buttons on a bee-bot's plastic "back" are used to enter up to 40 commands, which send Bee-Bot forward, back, left, and right. Pressing the green GO button starts Bee-Bot on its way. Students determine where bee-bot should go, and try to program him how to get there.
Bee-Bots move in 6-inch steps and 90º turns. Directional buttons on a bee-bot's plastic "back" are used to enter up to 40 commands, which send Bee-Bot forward, back, left, and right. Pressing the green GO button starts Bee-Bot on its way. Students determine where bee-bot should go, and try to program him how to get there.
Eventually, the first graders will program the Bee Bots to travel around the first grade project room between the buildings they create with blocks. The structures will be representational of buildings around the Shorecrest campus.
