Designing Robots Activity Book 2019

Designing Robots HELLO

What is Robot?

The Girl Scout Promise On my honor, I will try: to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law.

The Girl Scout Law

A robot is a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.

I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.

Vocabulary Algorithm: a list of steps that you can follow to finish a task. A recipe is an example of an algorithm; it tells you how to cook a dish by following step-by step instructions.

Automatic: is when a machine works with little or no human control.

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Program: is an algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.

Different Types of Robots?

Girl Scout Values Did you know that there are 6 levels of Girl Scouting?

Articulated

Polar

Delta

• grade K-1 Daisies • grades 2-3 Brownies • grades 4-5 Juniors • grades 6-8 Cadettes • grades 9-10 Seniors • grades 11-12 Ambassadors

Career Exploration

Robotic Programmer Did you know a Robotic Programmer designs software systems to control their robotic systems.

Learn About

Programming a Robot

Work in groups to follow and make up a program.

Choose one of the drawings below to program for a friend. Don't let them see which one you choose!

Write the program on a piece of paper using arrows. Can they recreate you picture Use these symbols to write a program that would draw each image.

Move One Square Right

Move One Square Left

Move One Square Up

Move One Square Down

Fill-In Square With Color

Build a Robot Hand Project: Robot Hand Objective: How the output of one part of a system can become the input to other parts.

Materials: Straws, Tape, Ribbon, Scissors, Paper and Pencils Directions: • On the paper trace an outline of your hand and use the scissors to cut it out.

• Fold the fingers along the joint lines.

• Cut the regular straw into 11 pieces that are approximately 5/8 inches long. Cut 3 pieces that are approximately 3/8 inches long.

• Tear off pieces of tape long enough to go over the straw and wrap around the back of your finger.

• Carefully put the ribbon on each finger... Then tape one straw piece to each section of finger.

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