Goal:
I understand what I need to know to begin designing my Mars rover
APK:
What ideas for tasks for your Mars rover could you get from these videos?
New info/Application
Thinking skill: Create: design products or processes to meet specific needs
- I describe something that could be better- the way a Mars rover might work on Mars
- I tell what it should be- design what your Edison will do
- I make a model- the Edison with program
- I listen to others tell me how to make it better-test/debug & get feedback
- I make it better-get feedback, debug and make improvements
- I publish or produce it
What are different things that Edison does that could stand in for things the rover does? …BRAINSTORM A LIST IN THE FIRST COLUMN OF A TABLE
Make correlation-Match the things that Edison does with tasks the Mars rover might do in the second column
Design-You can model any part of Curiosity’s real tasks or your own idea of what it or a future rover could do- see lesson 2
- You need steps designed for what it will do- PROTOCODE (procedure/ instructions/algorithms/flow chart/steps)
- You need to code your Edison
- You need to test/debug your code
- Rover should move
- You need to share your code using the ‘share’ function on EdScratch
- You need a map of the area you want it to move through. Your map should show where the rover will go and what it will do. You could include a scale on your map and make a grid representation and give co-ordinates for locations it goes
- You need a design for your mars rover ‘skin’ connection to maths lessons nets/tessellation
- You need to present your Edison project
Possible ideas-
- follow a specific path modelled on Curiosities past/possible future travels
- Design a way for Curiosity to get to a certain place even if there are obstacles in the way
- Design a way curiosity could go into a cave and out again
- Send messages back to earth about something it finds
- Pick up something (take samples)
- communicate with another rover and tell it to meet it
- Opportunity rover recently powered down when its solar panels were covered in dust from a dust storm- could Opportunity (or the next rover sweep the dust off?)
Goal reflection:
Our ideas for our Edison Rover are for it to…..
Explain why this task(s) would be important.
