Robot Creatures & their Behavior, Part I
Cubelets SIX kit, 40 minute activity

This lesson plan can be used as an introduction to robotics and presents the basic components of robots (sense, think, act) in a fun, hands-on, and experiential way. The deeper objective of these activities is to leverage students’ engagement in understanding and building robots with Cubelets to evoke natural curiosity about what their robots do and how they act. While students observe and understand behavior they build scientific skills relevant to biology, psychology, robotics, and artificial intelligence and develop general critical thinking ability related to scientific inquiry, categorization, considering properties and characteristics, and prediction.

Download the PDF here! https://archive.modrobotics.com/edu/RobotsAndBehavior-part-1.pdf

Robot Creatures & their Behavior, Part II
Cubelets SIX kit, 40 minute activity

This is a continuation of the Robots and their Behavior, Part I class for those who wish to have a second class day on this topic.

This class activity can be used as a longer unit and second day of students building scientific observation skills using Cubelets. As students delve further into practicing behavioral observation they also continue to advance their deductive investigations as to what inputs produce robot reactions, why, and what this means about the robot sense. Students practice skills gained in the previous class (Part I) again, this time with a different robot sense and action, strengthening their understanding of using observations to make a theory, test it, and refine it using different inputs. While students observe and understand behavior they build scientific skills relevant to biology, psychology, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Download the PDF here! https://archive.modrobotics.com/edu/RobotsAndBehavior-part-2.pdf