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5 Fun Activities To Earn the Daisy How Robots Move Badge
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Time to read 5 min
Never Struggle Planning Activities Again
Easy to use activity booklets for your troop meeting.Never Struggle Planning Activities Again
Easy to use activity booklets for your troop meeting.|
Time to read 5 min
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Have your girls ever been interested in robot development? If your looking for ideas to learn how to create and design, make robots move, and learn about the life of a robot with your girls, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to teach your girls how robots move! Below are a few ideas to get you started.
We partnered with CodeSpeak Labs, which specializes in computer science education for kids, to bring you these resources.
Before jumping into some ideas, do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use this Activity Booklet with engaging exercises that teach girls what makes robots move. These activities include a play robot exercise, creating sequence puzzles, and solving logic games. With step-by-step activities, you can’t ask for a easier way to run your meeting. Learn more and get yours today!
Be sure to also checkout these other activities your girls will love:
Huggable is an app-controlled, bear-shaped robot designed by the MIT Media Lab. It was created to help young patients fight cancer. In the video, you see the robot interacting with a patient and bringing her delight.
Huggable’s desginers talk about how they designed the bear to be cute and interactive. For example, it can sense pressure, like how much a child is pressing down on its nose. It can talk and ask and answer questions.
After watching this 5 minute video, your group can discuss:
If the girls like making bracelets, this is a great activity to reinforce important robot coding concepts like sequence and patterns.
Simon Says is a fun game for this age group. You can make this “robot style” by turning it into “Coder says” or “Programmer says” and the girls who are following the instructions are the robots.
This reminds girls that robots only know what to do whatever the Coder / Programmer says. With Artificial Intelligence technology improving rapidly, many young kids think robots have a mind of their own, like a person. This game reinforces the concept that originally a person — just like them! — decides how a robot will react to its environment and act.
Beebot is a nicer, more durable version of the Robot Mouse we blogged about in our Badge 1 post.
Like the Robot Mouse, Beebot has buttons on its body that allow kids to program a sequence of movement commands. It has the same Forward / Backward / Turn Left / Turn Right buttons, and also has a Wait button. The icons on the Turn buttons are more clear because they look different from the Forward / Backward buttons. (One of the most common mistakes by kids is thinking the Turn Left button makes the robot move left, instead of just turning.)
The main things we like about Beebot are that it seems more durable. We haven’t had any break on us (*knock on wood*), and they use rechargeable batteries that you can plug into a USB port. That way you don’t always need to be searching for a new set of batteries!
It is more expensive; BeeBot costs about $90, The mats that Beebot can navigate (e.g., an Alphabet grid so kids can program their names, etc.) are an additional purchase, though you could make your own.
If you don’t want to spend the money to buy equipment, our Activity Booklet has step-by-step instructions with activities that don’t require any technology.
Well of course give them the badge to display proudly on their vest, they earned it! You could also do a fun patch. Here is a real cute one:
Additionally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader. Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge.
If you have a multi-level troop you may want to use one of the variations to this program that is geared toward the age of your girls.
2nd – 3rd grade activities:
4th – 5th grade activities:
6th – 8th grade activities:
9th – 10th grade activities:
11th – 12th grade activities
A family of 10 garden fairies are on a mission to teach your girls good values to live by. Your girls will go on a garden adventure helping their fairy friends plant their flowers, water their gardens, and learn how to put their values into action one activity at a time. Everything is planned for you, just gather the supplies and enjoy running your meeting. Learn more and get yours today.
You are going to love these cute adorable fun patches to put on the back of your girl’s vest. I partnered with a amazing company Advantage Emblems and they are producing and shipping the patches. You can buy them individually or as a complete set.
Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!
