Gold Sphero: Activities
You can learn programming, try fun hands-on activities, and share your creations! When you program Sphero, you can see the Java code behind your program. You'll use code to control things like direction (heading), time, and speed. You can also change the color, add sounds, and decide how many times the program repeats. Your ultimate challenge will be to program Sphero to navigate a maze—and then design your own maze based on Sphero’s program!
There are four different activities for Sphero. You will go through each activity and program the Sphero to do a variety of things. Use the links below to move on to each activity. (These activities and more can also be found on the Sphero Lessons website.)
Competencies and Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
1. Empowered Learner
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies
4. Innovative Designer
a. Know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems
b. Select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks
c. Develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process
d. Exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems
5. Computational Thinker
c. Break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving
d. Understands how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions
7. Global Collaborator
c. Contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal
Websites and Documents
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Videos from Outside Sources
21t4s Quizzes