Robotics with WeDo Lego

Here you will find resources, material and links to videos which illustrate classroom practices.

• Learning and Evaluation Situation: Do We Need Robots or Do Robots Need us?

• Where to get the Robotics Kit and program  

• Extra downloads: fixes and additional elements

• The 4C Learning process 

• Build the Robots with WeDo plans: these plans have been adapted for Kindergarten

• Programming challenges associated with each plan: adapted to help Kindergarten students learn to program

Other resources to use:

Contexts for learning: Short video clips illustrating a variety classroom situations

	Context for Learning: Reading and creating an information wall To introduce robots and what they are, Jane Gravel focused on non-fiction reading. As a reading response activity, the children then dictated what they had learned about robots and created an Information Wall for all the school to see.  (1m 24 sec)
	Context for Learning: Working with Centers Claude Poulin describes some of the centers she put in place as part of the learning situation (51 sec)
	Context for Learning:   Robot-Themed Centers A day of robot-themed centers and some of the competencies targeted. (4 m 29 sec)
	Context for Learning: Reflect and communicate A free play robot-building activity followed by a 4-step visual representation/reflection on the process and communication. Cycle 1 students. (48 sec)
	Context for Learning: Sorting Learning related to cognitive development: grouping and sorting games.  The students develop the sorting categories as they work in teams, Cycle 1 students. (2 m 29 sec)
	Context for Learning: Sorting Learning related to cognitive development: grouping and sorting games (e.g. sorting objects by colour or texture.) (53 sec)
	Context for Learning: Building the robot. Cooperation, communication, problem solving. The students take turns in the roles of Builder or Checker. Cycle 1 students. (2 m 34 sec)
	Context for Learning: Programming the robot After having programmed the basic challenges, the students quickly move to develop their own. They discover and express their personal understanding of the programming elements. Cycle 1 students. (1 m 48 sec)