by Jessica Allen | Oct 13, 2021
Find Yellow Programming Module Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This programming lesson was designed to teach the basics of programming in Open Roberta through a “find yellow” food finding simulation program. Each activity is designed to...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Programming Phototaxis Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This is an open-ended programming lesson that models cell movement towards light. In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of outlining a program as a series of scenarios and responses....
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Programming Chemotaxis Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This is a programming lesson that models cell movement up a chemical gradient, model with the chemotaxis mat that has a white to black gradient printed on it. In this lesson, students build on the...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Final Challenges Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This is a great conclusion to a unit about cell biology, genetic engineering, or cellular engineering. Students are asked to program a robot to solve a challenge mat modeled after a real world problem that...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Cell-to-Robot Mindmap Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary In this activity students construct an analogy between the central dogma and a robot “running a program”. Students are first asked to place the central dogma (DNA-RNA-Protein) in the correct order and...
