This exciting high school specific variant of the Wiggle Bot immersion called SpacePrep: Martian Motion, engages students in challenges related to space exploration and remote repair. Students explore basic electrical circuits using Snap Circuits and build wiggle-bots in a challenge to make a bot capable of transporting critical supplies.
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Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Manufacturing
“Students demonstrated grit as they constructed, tested, and modified their wiggle bots. Students, as a team, analyzed success and difficulties and adjusted their ideas and methods based on these.” - West Virginia teacher
Immersion Agenda
- Pique interest with a short introduction
- Examine high-interest examples of abstract art
- Briefly discuss relevant concepts
- Detail safety precautions
- Students work in groups using design thinking to build their Wiggle Bot
- Groups make are while testing and adjusting their bots
- Students reflect on their work
- Short whole group discussion on waves with recaps on successes, difficulties, and unexpected events
- Connections to career clusters
- Possibilities for "What's Next?"