Robotics & Systems · Week 1 of 9

Meet the flood-supply robot challenge

Knowledge and context

Today's goal

Context, demonstration, knowledge exploration.

By the end

Initial ideas.

What we'll do (60 minutes)

Context/story and driving challenge: the flood-supply robot (Decision 1)10 min
Robotics demonstration: a teacher-built EV3 robot does the task badly; what's going on?10 min
Knowledge exploration: Systems thinking page (inputs, components, outputs)15 min
Small-group discussion: what would a robot need to do this well?10 min
Initial project response (Early anchor task, individual)10 min
Exit reflection: one question5 min

This week includes a Thinking check: a short task you do on your own, so you and your teacher can see how your thinking is growing. It is not marked.