Overview sTEM: Design a Robot Chariot What is the challenge/design The challenge is for students to design and produce a robot racing chariot and program a Sphero robot to compete in a robot race over a certain distance. Levels: Levels 3-4 Duration/time: Approximately 10 hours What makes this unit have a STEM focus? Design and Technologies: Technologies Contexts: Materials and technologies specialisations Creating Designed Solutions: Investigating, Generating, Planning and managing, Producing, Evaluating Digital Technologies: Creating Digital Solutions Mathematics: Measurement and Geometry: units of measurement. Content Descriptions Technologies Mathematics Design and Technologies Digital Technologies Technologies Contexts Creating Designed Solutions Creating Digital Solutions Measurement and Geometry Levels 3-4 Levels 3-4 Level 3 Level 4 Materials and technologies specialisations Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes () Investigating Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to create designed solutions () Generating Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques () Evaluating Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment and communities () Planning and managing Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions () Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions involving branching and user input (algorithms) needed to solve them () Using units of measurement Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, area, mass and capacity () units of measurement Use scaled instruments to measure and compare lengths, masses, capacities and temperatures ()
Assessment strategies for students Elements from the Achievement Standards Indicators Design and Technologies Explain needs or opportunities and evaluate ideas…against identified criteria for success, including sustainability. Generates criteria for success. Insufficient evidence Selects ideas for chariot design using identified criteria for success, including sustainability. Uses criteria for success that meet requirements of the design brief for the chariot, including sustainability. Evaluates for chariot design using identified criteria for success, including sustainability. Develop and expand design ideas and communicate these using models and drawings including annotations and symbols. Develops design ideas to meet the design brief and uses models and drawing including annotations and symbols. Insufficient evidence Identifies options that meet the design brief for a chariot. Identifies options that meet the design brief for a chariot and labels components of the design options. Generates options that meet the design for a chariot and uses technical language to label components of the design options. Insufficient evidence Identifies materials, based on their characteristics and properties, used in design options. Identifies materials, based on their characteristics and properties, used in design options and identifies how tools will be used with these materials. Explains materials, based on their characteristics and properties, used in design options, and explain how tools will be used to make the design options. and designed solutions against identified criteria for success, including sustainability considerations. Evaluates design options for the chariot against the design brief. Insufficient evidence Identifies that features of the design options for the chariot meet the requirements of the design brief, including sustainability considerations. Explains how the features of the design options for the chariot meets the requirements of the design brief, including sustainability considerations. Analyses the features of the design options for the chariot against the requirements of the design brief including sustainability considerations, and discusses why the preferred options was selected for the design of the chariot.