Create an RC car with upper primary.

Show students the the car in working order. Students will then understand the goal of what they are striving to accomplish. If you haven’t finished making the car, feel free to show them the video posted in the summary.

Open the slides attached. Introduce the Cutebot. Ensure that you go through the safety trainings along with getting students invested in keeping it safe so everyone can try.

Introduce the key coding terms they will be using, as well as how to access the site.

In this section of the presentation, you will be teaching the students what code to enter and why this code does what it does. Ensure that you are pausing for questions and understanding so students of all levels can create the code. Create the policy of show a friend, then show me, so that they are double checking and helping eachother before moving on. Coding the car to work automatically on the track will take at least one lesson, and the coding is attached in the presentation.

If students finish early, I encourage playing with the other code to try to get the kids to figure out how to turn the lights on/off, slowing the car down, speeding it up on the track, etc.

This part is quite difficult as it turns the remote control into a joystick essentially, instead of using the buttons to move the car. Advanced students may be able to program the joystick to make the remote control car work, or the bottons to do things like turn the lights on or whatever else they can do, but I am not one of those advanced students! Allow the students to play with their code, upload it to their Microbit, and test it in the car whenever possible. If you do not have one car per student, then I encourage you to have them work in partners or small groups, and allow each group to spend a time limit of maybe 3-4 minutes with the car. Allow students to check out other students codes as well.