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Biological sciences
GROWING AND CHANGING
STEM project
Project steps
Investigate
Learn about your living thing and investigate Bee-Bots and programming.
Research what your selected living thing looks like from birth to
adult, or from a seed to flowering plant.
Explore how a Bee-Bot moves and what sort of programming it needs
by looking at the website .
Explore what sort of mats are used for the paths of the Bee-Bot by
looking at the website .
Design, plan and manage
Plan your mat drawings and positions.
Decide on the drawings and labels you will need to include and make
a plan of where they will be placed on the mat.
Decide what other pictures, decorations or writing you will include to
fill the empty squares. One square needs to say ‘START HERE’.
Create
Create your Bee-Bot mat.
Cut a large square that is the length and width of
two rulers (60 cm). This will be your map.
Fold the mat in half, then quarters, then eights, then
sixteenths to create 16 squares for your mat. Then
you can use a marker and long ruler to rule the lines
on the fold marks.
Write an answer sheet that shows a program for a
Bee-Bot to move on the correct path.
Check and make changes
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Check to see if your design includes the correct life stages of your chosen
living thing, and that your instructions are correct. If not, change it.
Communicate
Share your mat with the class, explaining your chosen living thing and
how it changes as it grows.
Program (or ask another student to program) the Bee-Bot to follow the
pathway to find out about the life cycle of a living thing.
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