Sphero Mini Time Trials Lesson Plan

Educational Standards that this lesson meets:
Math Learning Standards
 -NY-4.MD
 -NY-4.MD
TEKS - Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (Curriculum Standards)
 -111.6 (b) (4) Number and operations (D)
 -111.6 (b) (6) Geometry and measurement. (C)

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Sphero Mini Basics

Sphero Mini packs hours of entertainment into a programmable, robotic ball. With LED lights and live sensors, this robot gives students tons of possibilities to be creative. In this session, we’ll discuss the basics of using the Sphero Mini to drive, play games, and even code. We will also discuss activity examples that can be done right in the Sphero app. Let’s get our Sphero Mini robot rolling!

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Sphero Mini Time Trials

In the spirit of friendly competition students will run time trials with their Sphero Mini.  This activity will give students to opportunity to pratice measureing angels and stright lines as well as code troubshooting.