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 teach the pieces necessary to build a working "find yellow" program....
Programming Phototaxis
Lesson OverviewSummary 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. They are also exposed to the engineering method...
Programming Chemotaxis
Lesson OverviewSummary 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 idea of outlining a program as a series of...
Final Challenges
Lesson OverviewSummary 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 might be solved by cellular...
Cells-to-Robot Mindmap
Lesson OverviewSummary 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 then asked what robot parts or actions are...