Offline Learning & Cybot's New House


Offline Learning

Kids don't only spend the whole time in front of a screen when learning robotics and coding. To reinforce the sequence and problem solving skills we played a fun game: two characters (CodeApillar, Red Car, Scratchy) get to meet each others, but they need the help of the whole group to get there.

In our classes we use coding cards that are also items that the kid will see in other coding apps to indicate the directions of the programmed objects.

By working as a team we got to discuss about possible ways, with the help of the coding cards, to help the characters meet each other.

Cybot's New House

Today we learned that Bluebot is a baby robot, thus has less attributes than Cybot. Therefore the house (grid) that we use for Bluebot doesn't match Cyborg's movements. 

By testing with different commands, we realized that by moving forward several times we would be able to draw our own grid, in other words, Cybot's new house.

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