Clear the landing zone from rocks

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28 Jun 2019
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You have 4 rocks arranged in a square. Clear them away with your robot.

The rocks

You can use any objects at hand – big caps, small balls, or LEGO parts from the sets. The rocks outside the landing zone are meteorites that you must avoid. You don't know what they are made of and how they will affect your robot.

The arrangement

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Arrange the rocks in a square. In that way, you will lay the foundations of the future task – moving in a square.
Of course, the teacher can arrange the rocks as he likes at the start of the class.

One program, one launch

Your task is to collect as many rocks as possible with your robot with one program only. You cannot launch the program four times to collect every rock individually.

Step by step

The fact that you have to make a long program does not mean you have to make it all at once. Put and test blocks one by one.

Courses and lessons with this Tutorial

This Tutorial is used in the following courses and lessons

Robotics with LEGO - Level 1.0 - Adventure in Space

The first level of the Robotics with LEGO curriculum for students in fifth to twelfth grades.

Various constructions with robots are built. Learn how to control the motors so that the robot navigates around the Moon and Earth in various ways. Getting to know the first two sensors. The robot can feel its surroundings with the help of the Touch sensor and avoid obstacles.
The Ultrasonic distance sensor can help the robot avoid obstacles. Students work with concepts like loop, degrees and medium motor. Robots can now do two different actions at the same time - while solving missions on a field, the third motor clears detected obstacles.

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Lesson 3 - Clearing the landing zone

Intro

Today we are building a robot, what would automatically clear the landing site.

Before a space craft lands on the moon, you send a robot to clear the landing site. Your robot has landed on the Moon and its task is to clear the site and to prepare it for the landing of the bigger space ship.

The robot lands slightly further away from the site and it must find its way to it. Regretably it road is blocked by rocks that can not be moved. The robot must go around them.

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Level A1 - Space Adventure - Robotics with LEGO SPIKE Prime

This is the first level of the LEGO Robotics Curriculum for second, third, and fourth-grade students.

A "space adventure" but with robots. Different robot structures are built in Level A1. The motors are controlled so that the robots perform precise movements around the "Earth", "Moon" and "Sun". We use the force sensor to overcome various obstacles we bump into. We learn interesting facts about the solar system and space vehicles.

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Lesson 5 - Clearing the landing pad

Remember to provide feedback to students regularly. It's important to give structured feedback in the form of a grade. Today, you'll need to grade your students following this article.