{"id":23661,"date":"2023-02-24T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=23661"},"modified":"2023-02-24T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:00:14","slug":"bee-bots-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/02\/24\/bee-bots-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee-Bots &amp; Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have been exploring the bee bots in our technology area.\u00a0 We began with\u00a0 learning how to program the bee bots to go forward.<\/p>\n<p>Our bee bots have very good memories, they remember every button we press. We had to learn how to clear the bee bots memory, so we could program them to do what we want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/F97CB070-D160-498A-ADA6-6E54C197317C-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23662\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/F97CB070-D160-498A-ADA6-6E54C197317C-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then introduced a colour line and were challenged to direct the beebot to a given colour. This helped us to practise our knowledge of colours as well as practising our beebot skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/D7EA375C-54CA-4FAD-A4AA-A79839432F26-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23667\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/D7EA375C-54CA-4FAD-A4AA-A79839432F26-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you find something in the room that is yellow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe bee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201dCan you count how many squares to the yellow square?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1,2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk we need to program the bee bot to move forward 2 spaces. Press the button 2 times\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy top is green\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many times do you need to press the forward button to get to green?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/5DFDA2C9-0745-4124-AFFE-6C219754F130-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23664\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/5DFDA2C9-0745-4124-AFFE-6C219754F130-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/634ABBA3-35FC-4973-8D5C-9267DC4EB128-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23665\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/634ABBA3-35FC-4973-8D5C-9267DC4EB128-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/E2E119D4-9462-4D8B-B7DE-0A0D92A7242B-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23663\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/E2E119D4-9462-4D8B-B7DE-0A0D92A7242B-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/516F4558-F513-4BD3-98B2-0877A401A842.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23668\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/516F4558-F513-4BD3-98B2-0877A401A842-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we\u00a0 were able to program the bee bots ourselves, we\u00a0 added further challenge by learning how to direct the beebot left and right to land on the given coloured square.<\/p>\n<p>Article 28<\/p>\n<p>You have the right to education<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have been exploring the bee bots in our technology area.\u00a0 We began with\u00a0 learning how to program the bee bots to go forward. Our bee bots have very good memories, they remember every button we press. We had to learn how to clear the bee bots memory, so we could program them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/02\/24\/bee-bots-colours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bee-Bots &amp; Colours<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446891,185],"tags":[447164,446277,185,446243,136],"class_list":["post-23661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-technology","category-numeracy","tag-bee-bots","tag-colours","tag-numeracy","tag-programming","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23661"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23680,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions\/23680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}