Spy Robots!

Over the last two weeks, Year 4 have been busy programming their own secret spy robots! Last week, we acted as the robots! For the robots to work, we needed to program them with a set of instructions so they could complete their task. We used a coding language to create our procedure. We then gave our instructions to our robot (our friend!) who carried out our code. They also tried to use their best robot voice as they read out the instructions!

We then set our robots an extra challenge. We set up obstacles and needed to program our robot around them. If our code didn't work, we needed to alter (or debug) or code so that the robot could successfully get around the course.

This week, we used the computer as a robot. We wrote our code by following different pathways on the floor outside.

We then used our code to instruct the computer using a program called Logo. Our instructions moved the turtle on the screen. If our pathway didn't match the one we traced over, we had to go back and debug our code so it worked correctly.

If you want to download Logo at home and create your own patterns, you can get it for free at sourceforge.net/projects/fmslogo/?source=directory . Make sure you ask permission from an adult before you install it!