Focus Area: Byte Into Science
5th Grade
Day 6- Robot Research
1. Vocabulary:
- Robot Control: Control is a program to control the robot. Robots must be told what to do. To control a robot, it needs to be programmed to receive input, and execute the desired output.
- Input: Input is the information that comes from the robot’s sensors. Robots have sensors that they use to get information from the robot’s environment. For example, a smoke detector can detect smoke. Robots typically have external and internal sensors.
- Output: The output is the action a robot takes after receiving input, often involving motors, lights, or sounds. For example, a smoke detector makes a loud sound and might flashlights. (In other words, effecting change in the robot’s environment - adapting.)
- Programmable: To be a robot, a machine must be programmable. Programmable means that a something can function from a program. For example, a smoke detector has a program to make a sound if it senses smoke.
- Robot Behavior: Is the combination of outputs that result in the task or job the robot does. For example, the behavior of the smoke detector is to “go off” in the presence of smoke. “Going off” is a combination of making noise and flashing lights, and may also involve calling the fire department.
- Conditionals: A statement that is either true or false depending on the situation.
- Loop: Part of a program that executes multiple times as long as its condition is true.
2. Lesson:
Pick a topic to research. You will answer the questions on p13 of your journal about how recent advances in these technology fields helped society. How did these technologies come about? What are the present applications that are helping people? What are some possible future applications of these technologies? What are some unwanted consequences of these technologies?
Your topics to choose from are: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, or Nanotechnology
Your topics to choose from are: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, or Nanotechnology
Artificial Intelligence
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365036848/
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365036848/
4. Wrap-Up:
- What did you learn in today's lesson?
5. Extension:
- Song writing activity. https://studio.code.org/s/20-hour/stage/12/puzzle/1
- How Robots Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/robot.htm