What is a Bee Bot?

A Bee Bot is a mini computer or robot that follows instructions.

The Bee Bot follows your instructions to move around.

How does a Bee Bot Work?

A Bee Bot follows the instructions that you give it by pressing its buttons.

The Bee Bot will put all of your instructions together and can follow up to 40 movements in one go.

What do the Different Buttons Mean?

Pause

Move to the Right

Go

Move Backwards

Reset Instructions

Move to the Left

Move Forward

How Can Bee Bot be Used to Teach Maths and Literacy?

This activity helps children with literacy as they can develop the language of the different rooms of the home and what might be in these rooms.

This activity will help students with maths as they can estimate the distance to a specific room and use Bee Bot to calculate this.

Representing the Route Symbolically

To ensure younger students can use the Bee Bot the route of the Bee Bot's journey could be represented symbolically using picture cards.

The students can then look at these to understand the buttons on the Bee Bot.

Mat That Could Be Used to Improve Literacy

This mat could be used to improve the literacy skills of students by using the Bee Bot to spell different words.