Bots! Robotics Engineering: With Hands-On Makerspace Activities - Hardcover
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Robotics Engineering Book with Hands-On Makerspace Activities
Bots! Robotics Engineering is an educational activity book designed for middle schoolers ages 9-12 that explores robotics, artificial intelligence, and engineering through hands-on projects. This comprehensive guide combines robotics history, STEAM learning, and practical building activities to help kids understand how robots work and develop their own innovative designs.
What's Inside This Robotics Activity Book
This book covers the complete world of robotics through engaging content and interactive projects. Kids explore the history of robots and artificial intelligence while learning about key innovators including Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Leonardo da Vinci, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, and Cynthia Breazeal.
The hands-on activities include constructing a hydraulic arm, formulating an edible inflatable soft robot, designing a motorized ArtBot, and testing a gravity-powered mini-walker. Students learn coding basics by writing pen-and-paper programs in Logo and creating virtual robots in the free online language Scratch. Advanced projects teach how to build low-cost programmable cardboard robots using microcontrollers such as Micro:bit or Circuit Playground Express and Microsoft MakeCode.
Educational Features and Learning Outcomes
The book includes essential questions, links to online primary resources, fascinating facts, and brief sidebars that help readers learn robotics fundamentals while exploring their creativity. One unique activity teaches kids how to train an "AI computer" to think by playing an unplugged Machine Learning version of the math game Nim.
Part of the Build It Engineering series from Nomad Press, this title integrates content with inquiry-based projects that stimulate active learning. The book is leveled for Guided Reading and Lexile standards and aligns with Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
Kathy Ceceri is an award-winning STEAM educator and author of more than a dozen hands-on learning activity books. She presents low-tech/no-tech engineering workshops for students and teachers at schools, libraries, museums, and makerspaces, and is a popular speaker at Maker Faires. Illustrations by Lena H. Chandhok, a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies whose work has been featured in Slate Magazine.
Available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats, this robotics engineering book provides middle schoolers with the knowledge and practical skills to understand modern robotics while building their own robotic creations.
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