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Mr. Funke

eLearning - PLTW - Disaster Response Robot

Grades: 5th Grade
Subjects: STEAM

Student Instructions

Visit this site... https://robots.ieee.org/robots/?t=sort Click on the TYPE menu and choose DISASTER RESPONSE Research 5 different disaster response robots. Pay attention to how they work and how they are designed to complete a specific task. Now choose one of the following disasters and imagine you are designing a robot to help with the recovery... Earthquake Hurricane Blizzard What kind of robot would you design. Why would it be important to use a robot in this situation instead of a real person? What could the robot do that a person couldn't? Why would it be safer to use a robot instead of a real person? Click on the add button and use the graph paper to design and label the robot you would build. Your design should show your robot from three different angles; front, back and side. Use a different page for each angle. Make your design as clean and neat as possible and remember to label it's important features.

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