TinkRbot AI

Grades 6-8

Hands-On Robotics Learning​

Empower Students to Innovate!

Introduce students to the future of robotics with TinkRbot AI. This comprehensive, hands-on project combines robot construction, advanced programming, and an exciting new lesson on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Students will assemble and program robots capable of sensing and responding to their environment through motion and light. While experimenting with sensors, they’ll enhance their coding skills by tackling real-world challenges such as solving mazes, following lines, and detecting or avoiding objects. This project fosters creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in every step!

Now featuring a dedicated AI lesson! Students gain a foundational understanding of how machines learn by training their very own AI model and exploring the potential and challenges of this exciting technology.

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Key Concepts​

Communications protocols, Conditionals, DC motors, Functions, Infrared, Line following, Maze solving, RGB pixel, Reflectance sensor, Remote control, Robotics, Servo motors, Subroutine, Ultrasonic sensor, Wall following, AI and Machine Learning
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Essential Question​

How can the integration of multiple sensors enable a robot to move autonomously through its environment?
Get a sneak peek at our STEAM curriculum and discover how TinkRworks projects spark creativity, coding skills, and hands-on learning in the classroom!

Summary of Standards

Grades 6-8
Computer Science Teaching Association Standards (CSTA) Students will design projects that combine hardware and software components, create clearly named variables, develop programs that combine control structures, test and refine programs, and decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs.

Common Core ELA Students will learn new content specific vocabulary, participate in collaborative group discussions, and interpret information that is presented through media.

Common Core Math Students will write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Students will use mathematics and computational thinking and construct explanations and designing solutions.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Students will synthesize information to create new understanding. They will participate in student-led discussions by eliciting and considering suggestions from other group members, taking notes, and identifying points of agreement and disagreement. Students will use the order of operations to generate numerical expressions.

New York Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards Students learn to design and write purposeful programs, compare and refine algorithms, and combine control structures to solve problems creatively. They build and debug code, document their design process, and collaborate using digital tools to create and share projects. Along the way, they integrate hardware and software, troubleshoot issues systematically, and develop the computational thinking and digital literacy skills.

TinkRbot has allowed my students to get a well-rounded experience with hands-on building and in-depth coding, which keeps engagement high as the lessons easily appeal to all learning styles. Their creativity shines through the customization of their TinkRbots. I’ve seen everything added to their cars – from the more artistic, like fake eyelashes and diamonds, to more practical, like a 3D printed snowplow. Students take full ownership of their learning because they are allowed to think outside of the box and take risks. More importantly, they are allowed to fail, knowing that failure is the path to success.

MEGAN MATTUCCI

Middle School STEAM Teacher, S.E. Gross Middle School

Unleash Creativity in Your STEAM Program

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