Learn how to be a robotics engineer using our radio crontrolled cars and Cubetto programmable robots. Easy-to-use blocks (forward, left, right, backward) are inserted into the control board and a button is pressed to send the instructions. The Cubetto robot then moves around a play mat.
Curriculum links
ELG links:
- Mathematics ELG: Number
- Mathematics ELG: Numerical Patterns
- Understanding the World ELG: Past and Present
- Understanding the World ELG: People, Culture and Communities
- Expressive Arts and Design ELG: Creating with Materials
What’s in the box?
Activities to support the use of this box in school and at home
This box supports our Play Be C: robotics engineer unit, You can find the unit and activities here.
Activities include:
- Programming “living” robots
- Using a huge grid to programme a robot
- Junk model robots
- Making circuits
- Using radio controlled cars
Learn how to use a simple code to control a robot by playing our Robot Coding game. You will need scissors, a felt tip pen and our game print outs to play.
Careers links
The Primary Science Teaching Trust has some additional careers links you may like to look at. These are called “A scientist just like me” and introduce children to a diverse range of scientists.
The downloadable power points relevant to this box are:
Computer scientist Daniel Csimszi
Artificial intelligence researcher Krishna Moorogen
Machine learning scientist Kaushik Hatti
