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Interactive Robot Flower: Engaging STEM Learning for Students

The Interactive Robot Flower project, developed by Phil Culverhouse at the University of Plymouth, promotes STEM education for students aged 9-16. It combines fun and learning, allowing pupils to design, build, and program a robot flower that reacts to environmental stimuli. Throughout various educational levels, students will engage in activities across design and technology, electronics, computing, and mathematics, exploring concepts like circuits, sensors, acceleration, and energy input. This hands-on project encourages collaboration and creativity, making science and technology accessible for all learners.

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Interactive Robot Flower: Engaging STEM Learning for Students

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  1. Robot flower Phil Culverhouse CRNS University of Plymouth

  2. Concept • Fun • Behaves • For Girls & Boys • Explores • Science • Maths • technology

  3. School applications • D&T: the robot flower can be designed & built by school pupils during laboratory sessions • Electronics: design the circuits and sensors • Computing: for control and behaviour). • Mathematics: for assessing acceleration, inertia, • Science: measure light energy input

  4. A behaving robot • make it dance, • make it react to stimulii ie. make it behave • Shrink from touch • Be bold, be shy • Change behaviour through time • Can learn to habituate stimulii

  5. School uses • Year 4-7: School buys kit with electronics, PIC and/or processor options and uses them to show robot interactions; • Year 9: D&T classes design mechnical parts following classroom guidance notes. They could be made on a laser cutter or rapid prototyper and then assembled with electronics and operated; • Electronics ‘A’level: students design electronics control system following classroom guidance notes; • Year 9-11: Computing class design behaviours, either single flowers or groups. Can also explore remote control methods, following class guidance notes; • Year 6: pupils design petals and fit to flower head. Perhaps changing servo motor speeds to alter reactions to stimulii and • Year 8-10: Mathematics pupils have known masses of each mobile part, and calculate accelerations and energy inputs etc. Again a class guidance note will suggest options.

  6. Final design

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