Written by Brooke Brown, Teach Outside the Box
What is the Hour of Code?
The second week of December is dedicated to the “Hour of Code,” during which students around the world spend a full hour practicing programming in a variety of ways. This may be through unplugged coding activities, coding apps or websites, or coding with robots.
Coding with Loti-Bot
Loti-Bot is a robot that provides the perfect bridge from early coding with Bee-Bot to more advanced programming. Students bring Loti-Bot to life with student-friendly block-based coding in the Loti-Bot app, with a visual format that is similar to Scratch. Loti-Bot can be shared by 2-3 students, and even works with existing Bee-Bot grid mats and supplements.
Here are just a few of Loti-Bot’s features:
- Highly accurate drawing capabilities
- LEDs
- Bumper sensors and Proximity sensors
- Adjustable pen holder (Flair pens fit perfectly!)
- Microphone and Speaker with 20 Pre-loaded sounds
- Buddy Detection Sensor (which detects other Loti-Bots, Blue-Bot and Bee-Bot!)
- Cliff sensor – prevents Loti from falling off the edge of the table
- Graduated Programming Environment.
Here are a few of the stations that I set up with Loti-Bot for the Hour of Code. These holiday themed robot stations are FREE in my TpT shop.
Thank you to Brooke Brown, Teach Outside the Box for writing this blog on Loti-Bot. Brooke Brown specialises in all things Literacy and STEM, you can follow her work here at https://teachoutsidethebox.com/.
