Problem-Solving With Bee-Bot (Online)

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Problem-Solving With Bee-Bot is targeted at students between first through fifth grades. Challenges are based on a grid which takes advantage of the Bee-Bot's 90 degree turns. Initial exercises challenge children to develop simple routes for their Bee-Bot and can be used with the younger children. Subsequent exercises have more complicated routes tied to cartesian coordinates on the grid, creating opportunities for hands-on practice in understanding graphing and mapping.

The additional challenges focus on prediction, logic, sequencing, and directions. Working together on the challenges helps students develop communication and collaboration skills while testing their solutions with their Bee-Bot helps create a motivating experience in self-evaluation.

This content is available online where you may view and print all the instructions, challenges, and supporting resources. A login code comes on the invoice and it allows access to the curriculum for up to three years.

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Problem-Solving With Bee-Bot includes a teacher's manual with instructions and objectives, plus 150 student challenges. They are self-contained on one page to be easily printed and distributed to students. Each challenge is self-contained with its goals and instructions. Students solve the challenge they are presented and then test their solution with the Bee-Bot. Challenges are organized by type and level of difficulty, so teachers can match challenges to student experience and ability levels. Challenges emphasizing mapping, graphing, predicting, and sequencing are included along with the series of challenges that present increasingly complex Bee-Bot routes.

This content was developed by Lester Carr, a 40-year public school veteran, who drew on broad experience with introducing technology to children in the classroom. The robot's simplicity and ease of use were both an inspiration in developing challenges that help put the motivation, excitement, and learning potential of robot technology into the hands of inquisitive elementary school children. Combining student motivation to use the Bee-Bot or Blue-Bot with this structured learning content helps them develop vital skills for success.