With my P6 I’ve become a bit stumped with regards my following of our 5-14 Level C planner. I’ve covered most things, only controlling and modelling has straggled behind. Not a big fan of the Roamer… mainly because the batteries never hold charge and always fall out… any ideas out there on how to cover these strands?
• control an external device by giving instructions in single steps, e.g. floor turtle/robot arm
• use more complex simulation/adventure games requiring a higher level of decision making.
I know what you mean about Roamer batteries.
I made a simple flash game a while back that mimics simple roamer tasks:
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/fun/rommy_robot.html
Children can create mazes and their pals can steer the robot through them with a set of instructions. That should cover the first bullet above.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Looks like it might cover the second
As ever… John to the rescue!
How about a Beebot or a Probot available from TTS. The batteries don’t fall out and they are not as cumbersome as the Roamer