A Bee-Bot or a Blue-Bot is a device that would be more appropriate for students in K-6. A great entry point for beginners to coding.

They are programmable floor robots which introduces students to programming, cause and effect, directional control, estimation, problem solving and estimation. More information can be found in the user guide.

What is a Bee-bot?

What is a Blue-Bot?

A classroom Introduction

Using Bee-bot for Numeracy

Bee-bot Ideas for Curriculum Incorporation

Please have a look at this document and try some of the lessons such as "I spy". There are 50 different ideas. How will you use the Bee bot in your curricula?

Some examples of project descriptions for Bee-Bots/Blue-Bots

Example 1

I would like to have Bee Bots for my classroom as a tool to navigate various lessons in science and mathematics. These Bee Bots allow students to use a coding device to help navigate curricular content. Such as, "Move the Bee Bot towards a living thing" or "Move the Bee Bot on the sum of 14 + 4". As a grade one teacher allowing children to become introduced to coding in a cross curricular format allows them to fully engage in problem solving, coding skills, executive functioning skills, critical thinking, persistence, team work, processing and creativity.

Example 2

My school’s Maker Space has two Bee-Bots and my class absolutely loves them. I have already created two mats with the letters of the alphabet, two more with numbers and a third set of two with the parts of a snowman to use with my current Language Arts unit on procedural writing. I believe I can make the Bee-Bots useful in any subject area by creating a mat that will help cover and assess the outcomes.

Example 3

We plan to use the Programmable Robot Mouse to teach our primary students coding. We can use the mice with our own grid systems over maps, numbers, letters, etc. Students can do word work activities during Daily 5 by coding the spelling of different words. They can code addition, subtraction, multiplication and division sentences. Students can code ordinal directions on maps for Social Studies and more!

Example 4

Students will describe the different stages of life, in a logical sequence, using a Bee-Bot to find each stage. At each stage of life, they will describe their needs and wants, as well as some things they can do, and some things that they cannot do yet.

Students will create codes to find each stage, in the correct order, on a grid mat. They will record on a blank grid mat, the path of their Bee-Bot, using arrows. They will be able to describe the path of the Bee-Bot using position words (e.g. up, down, left, right, forward, backward, etc.) and using sequencing language (e.g. first, second, third, next, then, last, etc.).

Example 5

For the BeeBots, students will navigate through prepared mats representing sequence of events in various poems, short stories, songs, and other literary forms. Mats could also represent letter recognition, sounds, and picture-word recognition/association. Students could also represent their own literary works by creating mats for their classmates to navigate through with the help of Beebot.