What do bee bots teach?
This introduction to using the small programmable robot, the BeeBot, introduces children to creating simple programs. They learn the importance of sequences of accurate instructions, and test their sequences out using a ‘fakebot’ or paper-robot.
What can the Bee Bot help us?
Bee-Bot is an appealing programmable robot for young children. It is an easy way to introduce control technology into the classroom, for children as young as three. Many schools have found that Bee-Bot can help children develop skills or reinforce concepts which other resources or methods don’t.
Are Bee-Bots coding?
Bee-Bots are a programable floor robot and are an excellent way to introduce younger students to some of the basic concepts of coding. Students are able to learn directional language, commands, sequencing and problem solving. They also generally enjoy the hands on nature of the Bee-Bot.
How far do bee-bots move?
15cm
Bee-Bot can accurately move in steps of 15cm, turn in 90° turns, and remembers up to 40 steps!
What is the difference between a Blue-Bot and a bee bot?
The Blue-Bot is a clear robot, allowing students to view the hardware within. It is the same size as the Bee-Bot and has the same command buttons, but the difference is the addition of its Bluetooth capability, which allows it to connect to the Blue-Bot app.
How far does a bee BOT move?
Bee-Bot can accurately move in steps of 15cm, turn in 90° turns, and remembers up to 40 steps!
Are Bee Bots Robots?
With its cute little honeybee face, the Bee-Bot is a programmable educational robot and excellent teaching aid for pupils from nursery through to primary school. This educational robot will help children master spatial location or movement programming.
Are Bee-Bots Robots?
How can Bee-Bot help students learn?
As playing occur with Bee-Bot, students interact, communicate, explore, engage with each other, but most importantly, they learn together with their peers without realizing it. Bee Bot’s give students great deal of learning opportunities across early year’s curriculum.
What are the rules of bee-bots?
They know the rules include keeping their Bee-Bots on the floor at all times and using the buttons to make him turn and move. They have to count the number of times it must move to get to the right spot. The Bee-Bot blinks and makes noise when it is finished with the command the students entered.
What are your bee-bots’ names?
Our centre Bee-Bots have all been given names that begin with the letter B. We’ve got Buzz, Bart, Boris, Blinky, Bindi, Bonnie, Blitzen and a number of other bots. We thought our Bee-Bot names were pretty cute, until we heard the names that a Year 10 class at Bentley Park College in Cairns gave their Bee-Bots.
How can I use bee-bots with music?
Bee-Bots love moving to music and they especially love moving to the sounds of early phase students singing. As a group, collaboratively develop your own B-Tunes and then have students program their Bee-Bots to dance to the sound. You could even use audacity to capture the songs created by students.