Heretaunga College

Junior Robot Masters (Semester 2)

Course Description

Big Question - Robots. Should robots be celebrated or treated with caution?

Robots today are roving Mars, hoovering our floors, building cars, driving us to work, entertaining us in films and even performing medical surgery. In this course you will learn about electronics, simple circuits, sensors, and motors; the hardware behind robotics. You will also learn about the software behind robotics. You will learn about coding and you will write programs to control sensors and motors inside your robot. You’ll explore the basics of robot design, control, and behaviour through a series of challenges that will have you test-driving a microbit.

Learning Areas:

Technology, Digital Technology & Design

Assessment Information

MANA REO (COMMUNICATING)

Students will be assessed on their ability to communicate their knowledge, understanding and skills.

• Pre-structural - I need support to describe ideas and/or information.
• Uni-structural - I can describe an idea and/or information.
• Multi-structural - I can describe ideas and information.
• Relational - I link ideas and information together and explain my understanding.
• Extended Abstract - I apply my understanding to discuss my ideas in new ways.

WHAKAARO (THINKING)

Students will be assessed on their ability to develop their levels of thinking in a variety of learning experiences.

• Pre-structural - I need to support to think of an idea.
• Uni-structural - I can think of an idea.
• Multi-structural - I can think of several ideas.
• Relational - I link ideas together to organise my thinking.
• Extended Abstract - I apply my thinking in creative ways.