This course is recommended for middle school students
These courses are comfortable to use for all the blocks in the Spike Prime environment and also teach you to move and turn the robot, use the sensors, and use loops and switches.
Simple Structures of Lessons
Simple Structures of Lessons
- Each lesson starts with a list of objectives and ends with a challenge
- In most lessons, the teacher provides hints in the form of Pseudocode. Students who need a hint should look at the Pseudocode.
- Teacher provides a challenge solution as well, but want students to complete the challenge on their own before checking the solution
- A discussion guide is included after the challenge that will help understand the main objectives
What Students Learn
1-Build a Base Robot
- Technic Building Basics
- Building a Robot for Lessons
- Cable Management
- Color Sensor Positing and shielding
- Gearing for LEGO robots
- Wheels
- Passive Attachments
- Motorized Attachment
- Learn how to update the software
- Learn how to update the firmware
- Learn how the Spike Prime brick operates
- Learn about the main components of the Prime Spike software
- Learn solutions to common brick-related issues
- Learn how to retrieve and use data from your sensors
- Learn how to use Port View on the Prime Spike Brick
- Learn some examples of when and where Port View would be useful
- Try to solve some common problems using Port View
- Learn what pseudocode means
- Learn why you use pseudocode
- Learn to write pseudocode for a common task
- Learn how to make your robot go forward and backwards
- Learn how to use the Move Steering block
- Learn how to read sensor values using Port View
- Learn to turn the robot a desired number of degrees
- Learn the differences between Spin and Pivot Turns
- Learn how to program two different type of turns
- Learn to write pseudocode
- Learn to use the Display Block and Sound Block to add your custom images and sounds to the EV3
- Learn how to use the Touch Sensor
- Learn how to use the Wait For Block
- Learn the difference between the Wait For Block and the Sensor Blocks
- Learn when to use Move Block’s “On” mode
- Learn how to use the Color Sensor
- Learn about Coast and Brake
- Learn how to repeat an action
- Learn how to use Loop Blocks
- Learn how to make your robot decide what to do out of different choices
- Learn how to use a Switch Block
- Learn how humans and robots follow lines
- Learn how to get a robot to follow a line using Color Mode on the EV3 Color Sensor
- Learn how to follow a line until a sensor is activated
- Learn how to follow a line for a particular distance
- Learn how to combine sensors, loops, and switches
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