Robot Essentials: Amazing Amusement Park

Description

Are you ready to follow the LEGO minifigure crew to the Amusement Park? This unit introduces your students to engineering design skills. They’ll learn about the steps that are involved in defining a problem, brainstorming solutions, and testing and refining prototypes to improve their ideas. They'll learn observation skills by gathering information about a problem and modifying a solution to meet the needs of others.

Objectives

• Improve and refine a prototype as part of the design process

• Practice helping a story character

• Gather information about the needs or wants of others

• Change a solution to meet the needs or wants of others

Keywords: STEAM, Computer Science, LEGO, Storytelling