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Robotics: Ozobots

Robotics: Ozobots

Robotics: Ozobots Take your coding skills to the next level with Ozobot Blockly!

 In this engaging program, students move beyond color-coded paths and dive into block-based programming. They'll explore how coding connects to art, math, science, and storytelling through fun, hands-on challenges. As they program robots to complete missions and tell interactive stories, learners build computational thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Each lesson empowers students to become confident coders and problem-solvers.

 

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  • About Robotics: Ozobots

    Robotics: Ozobots – Coding Beyond the Basics

    Ready to take coding to the next level? Robotics: Ozobots empowers students to move from simple color-coded paths into Blockly programming, giving them the tools to think like real coders. Through interactive challenges and story-driven missions, learners explore how coding connects with art, math, science, and storytelling in fun and meaningful ways.

    Our curriculum blends STEM foundations with creativity and collaboration, encouraging students to design, test, and refine their code. By programming their Ozobots to solve puzzles, complete missions, and tell interactive stories, students strengthen problem-solving skills while building confidence in computational thinking. Each lesson balances screen-based coding with hands-on robot play, ensuring that learning stays active, engaging, and inspiring.

  • Focus Areas

    Ozo Code Creators:
    Level up your skills by programming with Blockly, solving silly
    sentence puzzles, and designing animated logic sequences.
    Ozo Blockly Builders:
    Use conditionals, functions, and custom commands to teach your
    robot how to make smart choices and complete advanced
    challenges.
    Ozo Smart Challenges:
    Test your robot’s speed, memory, and logic as you explore space,
    solve mysteries, and code creative solutions like a tech pro.

Learning Outcomes

  • Building Logical Code with Blockly

    Students will strengthen programming knowledge using Blockly to create logical, step-by-step code for controlling robots.

  • Designing Smarter Programs with Conditionals and Loops

    Students will apply conditionals, loops, and functions to design interactive tasks and make decisions based on input.

  • Debugging and Problem-Solving Through Challenges

    Students will test, troubleshoot, and refine their robot programs by completing increasingly complex coding challenges.

Sample Lessons

These lessons offer how students progress from review and calibration to creative coding, science crossovers, and block-based programming a balanced, hands-on introduction to robotics and computational thinking.

Power Up - Back to Basics

Students refresh their Ozobot knowledge by revisiting power, calibration, and simple commands. This lesson boosts confidence and sets the stage for more advanced coding challenges ahead.

Code Master Checkpoint

Learners take on a skills challenge that uses all prior color codes to guide their robots. They’ll combine creativity and precision as they prove their growing coding mastery.

Silly Sentences - Word Codes

Students create hilarious random sentences and bring them to life using color word codes. This playful mix of storytelling and coding builds both imagination and sequencing skills.

Trait Trackers - Genetics Coding

Robots take on the role of scientists in a trait match-up simulation. Students explore basic genetics concepts while coding Ozobots to connect patterns, traits, and outcomes.

Debugging Detectives - Blockly Basics

Students learn the language of debugging and practice spotting coding “bugs.” Then, they’ll start hands-on training with block-based programming, bridging the gap from color codes to Blockly.

Course Format

Our curriculum for Robotics: Ozobots – Coding Beyond the Basics blends the dynamic structure of afterschool programs with the proven 5E instructional model—Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. Each phase is thoughtfully crafted to balance hands-on robotics play with coding skill development, ensuring students stay engaged while building lasting STEM confidence.

Engage Phase: We spark curiosity with exciting visuals, coding prompts, and real-world robotics examples. This phase captures student interest by showing how Ozobots can act out stories, solve puzzles, and bring imagination to life.

Explore Phase: Students dive into brainstorming and experimentation with color codes and Blockly programming. They learn by testing ideas, observing how their robot reacts, and adjusting their paths or commands through playful trial and error.

Explain Phase: Foundational coding and STEM knowledge is introduced step by step, including sequencing, direction, functions, and debugging. Students connect these concepts to math, science, and storytelling as they learn how robots process and respond to code.

Elaborate Phase: Learners apply their knowledge through story-driven challenges, maze navigation, and themed projects. They refine their problem-solving and collaboration skills by programming Ozobots to complete missions and creative adventures.

Evaluate Phase: Students reflect on their coding journey by demonstrating their projects, sharing strategies, and troubleshooting with peers. This phase helps learners connect their new skills to real-world applications, reinforcing both confidence and computational thinking.

This structured yet flexible approach ensures every student experiences a comprehensive, engaging, and reflective STEM learning journey, turning playful robot adventures into real coding skills. Join us and let your ideas come alive with Ozobots!

Our Instructors Are Our Top Asset

At BAM!, our vision for innovative K-8 education extends beyond just curriculum; it encompasses the educators who bring that curriculum to life. Selecting & training our educators is a continuous and meticulous process, ensuring they are not just equipped with subject matter expertise but also the skills to inspire and connect with students on a personal level.

  • 100% adult educators recruited from prestigious universities ( No CITs at BAM!)
  • Highly refined interview and background check process 
  • Extensive training that goes well beyond curriculum & classroom management
  • Ongoing year-round opportunities to teach in our summer camp. After-school, and structured recess programs.

We celebrate your child's success!

Upon the conclusion of your child's program, they will be presented with an official Brains & Motion Education certificate.

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