Age range: 12-16 years old
Keywords: Rover, Mars, mission, program, engineering, experiment, data
Subjects: Technology, Programming, Physics
Students will learn:
To recognise and program basic instructions in a block-based computer language
To use a robotic tool to explore scientific content
To develop scientific experiments and engineering skills for controlling individual experiment parameters
To design a rover structure with mechanical constraints
To design and evaluate a wheel system based on scientific experiments
To collect data with a sensor
To analyse data and processes to answer scientific questions
To work and communicate together as a team