Learning Goals
Engineering/Robotics Goals:
- Use engineering thinking to come up with multiple solutions to the same problem
- Be able to understand basic coding frameworks
- Be able to think of and develop motor movement and motion mechanisms
Science Connections:
- Identify what plants and animals exist in the ocean, jungle, and arctic.
- Identify how modes of transportation use the environment around them to get people from one place to another
- Understand traits of different biomes and how humans and animals interact with those traits.
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- Build a Biome
- description
- Build something you would find in the ocean, arctic, or jungle!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Build a Biome Placemat.jpg
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- title
- Ocean Creatures
- description
- Think about your favorite creature that lives in the ocean and how they survive. Build this creature and show one way they defend themselves.
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instructon
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Ocean Creatures Placemat.jpg
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- title
- Day at the Beach
- description
- Build something that you would see while spending a day at the beach- don’t forget to make it move!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/A Day at the Beach Placemat.jpg
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- title
- Ocean Movements
- description
- Build a model of something that can move in the ocean —a boat, a jetski, a canoe, or any ocean vehicle. Think about how you might use the water to move.
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/WeDo Ocean Movement.jpg
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- Ocean Tools
- description
- Create a tool used in the ocean — something for exploring, fishing, cleaning trash, or any other task!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Ocean Tools Placemat.jpg
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- Jungle Transportation
- description
- Model a way to get around in the jungle!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Jungle Transportation Placemat.jpg
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- Monkey Crossing
- description
- Model a machine that can help a monkey travel from one jungle treetop to another!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Monkey Crossing Placemat.jpg
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- Fruit Harvest
- description
- Build something that can pick fruit from up high in the jungle trees!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Fruit Harvest.jpg
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- Jungle Creatures
- description
- Build a creature that lives in the jungle and give them at least one way to collect food.
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Jungle Creatures.jpg
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- title
- Snowball Fight
- description
- Quick, build something that will help you in a snowball fight! Create a robot to make snowballs, to throw them, or anything else.
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/SnowBall Fight.jpg
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- title
- Ice Fishing
- description
- Model a robot that people in the arctic could use to go ice fishing!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Ice Fishing Placemat.jpg
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- title
- Arctic Creatures
- description
- Build a robotic version of an animal that lives in the arctic!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Arctic Creatures Placemat.jpg
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- title
- Arctic Transportation
- description
- Think of a way to move in a snowy and icy environment. Build your idea with the WeDo kit!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Arctic Transportation.jpg
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- title
- FINAL CHALLENGE: Create your own Biome Adapted Creature
- description
- Build an imaginary animal that has further adapted to live in the arctic, the jungle, or the ocean!
- placematlinks
- Placemat Instruction
- placematpic
- ../web/img/Biome Creatures.jpg
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