Video tutorials

There are some fundamental rules that we advise you to follow while organizing this course with students. Let's look at them.

How should an instructor use this course when working with students and a group of students in school

Note for the teacher on how to organize the class to use different robot base constructions to accomplish the mission for lifting.

When organizing this course, the behavior expectations should be set at the very beginning of the course.

What a teacher must look out for, while students are building a robot from instructions.

Do your best as a teacher to make sure students are expanding their vocabulary on every occasion.

Expanding vocabulary

Expanding students' vocabulary is an important part of the learning process.
It is unacceptable when after a few classes your students still say, "I need that blue thing or the red part".

Practice makes perfect

The teacher should encourage students to pronounce the names of the parts on every occasion.
This is easy when students ask you to give them some part from the set or ask you to help them find a piece in the set.

Here are some guidelines for assigning tasks to students:

Clearly mark the starting position

Use visible references on the floor. If the floor is tiled, use the tiles. If there are lines, use them as guides. Always clearly mark both the starting point and the finish line.

Students may forget where the start and end points are, so it is important for you, as the teacher, to mark them clearly.

Organize turns

Use one testing area for every 10–12 students and teach them to wait their turn in line. This helps keep the activity organized and fair for everyone.

Choosing the distance and defining success

A task distance of around 50 cm (20 inches) works well. You can also choose a different distance or decide together with the students. Any distance can work, especially if it has meaning.

For example, you can use a meaningful challenge like: “Move the robot as far as your height.”

Be consistent with task criteria

Decide in advance what counts as a successful result. For example, is 42 cm acceptable? Is 49 cm enough? Is 55 cm too far?

Set clear expectations and help students understand the importance of precision. At the same time, encourage them to try again and improve their results.

Notes on building the FiveMinuteBot

What is allowed and what is not when building without instructions.

There are some things to be careful about when your students work with the brick.

This is a teacher's note about the math behind calculating gear ratios with for our lifting attachment. It math model we build in previous tutorials is not exactly correct and here is the explanation why.

A note why we give the challenge at the start of the lesson.

Sometimes a good teacher needs a few tricks in his sleeve, so that he can surprise and entertain his students.

What should you as a teacher know when the students are trying to achieve a program and robot attachment that could reproduce their behaviour 9 out of 10 times. 

What should you do as a teacher when the students are calculating the gear ratios and number of needed rotations?

We will share the idea behind that challenge and how to conduct the challenge in a classroom.

A special fourth case for a turning with robots with two wheels.

In the EV3-G software, you could use negative numbers for power and rotations. In this episode, we would look at what is the meaning of this numbers and make a few notes of where the teacher must be more careful.

Note for the teacher on making the construction more stable, more durable and using beams for this.

How important is it to have predictable behavior in your classes.

Why we change the robots all the time and what to observe in each new robot.

How to keep the discipline in the classroom and how to cheer up the students.

How to help students implement long programs. 

In this robotics tutorial, we give a few notes for the teacher about adding an axle to the front of the FTC robot and attaching a plastic plate to this axle to make the robot collect balls. 

With the last few videos, we entered the math world. Why we do it and what to keep in mind

Let's cover the break at end option and learn why there is no lesson about it to students.