Robots and Drones Grades 6 to 8
10 weeks Coming
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Robots and Drones Grades 6 to 8 is a 10-week course on how robots and drones sense, decide and move. Rocket, Raven and Nova build Scout, a cardboard-box rover, and program it by being the robot on a masking-tape course in the hallway. Week by week Scout gains a touch bumper, a light eye for following a line, an echo ear for measuring distance, wheels as actuators and a feedback loop that keeps it on track. Students write algorithms as flowcharts and pseudocode, use loops and if-then rules, and find and fix bugs. Then they ask how Nova flies: propellers push air down and the air pushes back, and propeller pairs spinning opposite ways keep a quadcopter from twirling. NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are the real examples. Students learn the FAA's rules for flying a drone safely, and finish with the Delivery Challenge: a design they test, improve and report on. Short daily lessons with checked answers, an unplugged Robot Lab each week and a Saturday Field Day for the family. No kit, drone, app or account needed, and the course never asks anyone to fly a drone. 100% free, start to finish.
What your kid will learn
- Describe a robot as a machine that senses, decides and acts, and tell autonomous robots from remote-controlled ones
- Explain how touch, light and echo sensors turn the world into readings, and compute distance from an echo's time
- Explain open-loop and closed-loop control with a sensor, a controller and an actuator
- Write robot algorithms as flowcharts and pseudocode with clearly named variables, nested loops and compound conditionals, and test them with a range of cases
- Explain how a quadcopter lifts, hovers, moves and turns using Newton's third law, lift, weight and propeller pairs
- State the FAA's main rules for recreational drone flyers, and design, test and improve a solution using criteria and constraints
10 to 15 minutes a day, four or five days a week.
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