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Originally Posted by iggy_gim
Yup, yup I've seen this curriculum and tried it the first couple of classes, but unfortunately, the kids are not really behaved enough to follow said curriculum... Order is difficult because most of these kids suffer from ADD/ADHD.
Lastly, I came up with this idea last night as I was falling asleep:
STEP 1: Teach programming
STEP 2: Build a single robot for the kids myself and have them all program it in teams
STEP 3: Create a single program and have the kids build a robot around that program
STEP 4: Wrap it all up by having the kids make a robot from scratch!
We barely have any money and the nearest FTC team was just started this year so we really can't help us with providing us with a past mat.
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Based the experience my younger son and I are having this year mentoring two FLL teams, students with ADD/ADHD can make it much tougher for all involved. It may help to keep the groups small to minimize their disruptive influences on each other.
At the camps my sons teach each summer, they have the students build a "5 minute bot". They teach them how to implement a line follower (draw on some white paper with a black marker pen). They then have them solve some of the simpler challenges on an FLL mat. Most of the students can do this in about 15 hours total.
http://www.nxtprograms.com/five_minute_bot/
https://shslab.wikispaces.com/5+Minute+Bot+for+EV3
The FLL forum is a good resource for how to teach the EV3
http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdispl...ST-LEGO-League