Hummingbird Hardware

Curriculum DevelopmentLesson
Written By Tamara Moore

This activity is students’ first classroom exposure to the micro:bit and the hummingbird robotics kit. In this unit, students are asked to design, program, redesign, and reprogram robots to act as prey. Students must design robots to detect and avoid contact with a stationary predator. Later, students redesign and reprogram robots to do the same based on a change in the size and shape of an “newly evolved” predator.

  • Core Content: computer science

  • Grade Levels: middle school

  • Time Required: one 50-minute class period

  • ME Career Connection: Students will be given the link to Boston Dynamics to search products, industries, careers at the company.

  • Author: Brad Ruff

Tamara Moore
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