Curriculum

These lessons were designed with Roversa in mind, but most will work with other robot platforms or as unplugged activities as well.
  • Introduction - This lesson introduces  students to robotics and Roversa.
  • Grid Challenges - This lesson introduces students to coding Roversa around a grid map.
  • Hungry, Hungry Robot - This lesson helps students  bring a book or story to life by coding Roversa.
  • Computing Device Games - These unplugged games  will help introduce students to Roversa and explore computing device components.
  • Robot Factory - This unplugged activity helps students understand the importance of the computer science concepts of sequence and debugging.
More Lesson Ideas
  • Communication Challenge - In this lesson, students strengthen their self management skills.
  • CSinSF Bee-Bot Lessons - In this sequence of lessons,  students apply computational thinking skills and reinforce language arts learning. Find more lessons under Orange and Yellow tabs.
  • Finch Jousting - In this lesson, students explore the engineering process, collaborate, and iteratively problem solve.
  • I Feel, Who Feels? -  In this lesson,  students strengthen their self awareness skills.
  • My Robotic Friend - In this unplugged activity, students  explore algorithms and debugging.
  • Robot Zine - In this unplugged activity, students design a robot to solve a real-world problem while considering how the robot will interact with humans.
  • Sight Word Robot - In this lesson, students use robots to help them learn sight words.
Roversa Robotics
Research and development has been generously funded in part by an ITEST grant from the National Science Foundation, a Commonwealth Commercialization Fund grant from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation with matching funds from the Licensing & Ventures Group at UVA and Global Programs of Distinction grants from UVA.