Y4, Y5 & Y6: Lego Robotics Forces and Motion with Coding Workshop

Children use Lego WeDo 2.0 or Lego Mindstorms EV3 to design and build robots to solve real world problems. They learn to code their robots in interactive challenges. In addition to the basics of robotics, children learn key engineering principles such as force and motion, gear ratios and aerodynamics.

• Solve a real world ‘big problem’ such as pollution, animal welfare, dinosaur habitats

• Apply science and engineering concepts such forces, friction, aerodnamics, gear ratios, the relationship between power and speed.

• Explore visual programming with the WeDo 2.0 aor EV3 software

• Build robots that use motors

• Program and utilize different sensors

• Develop structural design skills

The children will leave the workshop having learnt:

• Key programming concepts such as loops, if/then/else/while statements

• Structural design skills acquired as a result of building with Lego

• Understanding how to build robots using motors and sensors and how to give instructions to a robot in the language of code

• Understanding about science and engineering concepts such forces, friction, aerodnamics, gear ratios, the relationship between power and speed.

• Cross-curricular learning that is so essential to children when it comes to grasping concepts

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