Overview sTEM: Design a Robot Chariot What is the challenge/design Levels: Levels 3-4 The challenge is for students to design and produce a robot racing Duration/time: Approximately 10 chariot and program a Sphero robot to compete in a robot race over a hours certain distance. What makes this unit have a STEM focus? Design and Technologies: Technologies Contexts: Materials and technologies specialisations Creating Designed Solutions: Investigating, Generating, Planning and managing, Producing, Evaluating Digital Technologies: Creating Digital Solutions Mathematics: Measurement and Geometry: units of measurement. Content Descriptions Technologies Mathematics Digital Design and Technologies Technologies Technologies Creating Designed Creating Digital Measurement and Geometry Contexts Solutions Solutions Levels 3-4 Levels 3-4 Level 3 Level 4 Materials and Investigating Define simple Using units of units of technologies Critique needs or problems, and measurement measurement specialisations opportunities for describe and follow a Measure, order and Use scaled Investigate the designing and explore sequence of steps compare objects instruments to suitability of and test a variety of and decisions using familiar metric measure and materials, systems, materials, components, involving branching units of length, compare lengths, components, tools tools and equipment and and user input area, mass and masses, capacities and equipment for a the techniques needed to (algorithms) needed capacity () and temperatures () range of purposes () create designed solutions to solve them () () Generating Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques () Evaluating Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment and communities () Planning and managing Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions ()
Overview sTEM: Design a Robot Chariot What is the challenge/design The challenge is for students to design and produce a robot racing chariot and program a Sphero robot to compete in a robot race over a certain distance. Levels: Levels 3-4 Duration/time: Approximately 10 hours What makes this unit have a STEM focus? Design and Technologies: Technologies Contexts: Materials and technologies specialisations Creating Designed Solutions: Investigating, Generating, Planning and managing, Producing, Evaluating Digital Technologies: Creating Digital Solutions Mathematics: Measurement and Geometry: units of measurement. Content Descriptions Technologies Mathematics Design and Technologies Digital Technologies Technologies Contexts Creating Designed Solutions Creating Digital Solutions Measurement and Geometry Levels 3-4 Levels 3-4 Level 3 Level 4 Materials and technologies specialisations Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes () Investigating Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to create designed solutions () Generating Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques () Evaluating Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment and communities () Planning and managing Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions () Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions involving branching and user input (algorithms) needed to solve them () Using units of measurement Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, area, mass and capacity () units of measurement Use scaled instruments to measure and compare lengths, masses, capacities and temperatures ()
sTEm_Levels_3-4_Design_a_robot_chariot.docx