Robotics!!!

The session on robotics provided a great amount of entertainment and I believe it would for adults as much as students. It would be very useful for children because they would have to explain their actions and plan outwith the robots. This routine me and my fellow students created required a good amount of planning to get the robots to do what we wanted. Children would have to explain their routines and instruct each other on how to perform certain actions which would help develop their discussion skills as well as their ability to express any ideas they might have. Organisations like the one at http://hg-education.com/workshops-for-kids/lego-ks1-workshops/ help to make a fairly complex subject fun as well as educational for key stage 1 children. Attaching a pen or the use of a more specialised robot can also make this lesson have artistic links with the children programing in patterns and pictures.