Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot

Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot is a new curriculum that utilizes the fun, easy-to-use, and durable Bee-Bot robot to teach problem-solving and critical thinking skills to elementary school students. Through a series of sequential challenges, students learn to direct Bee-Bot on increasingly complicated routes and develop an understanding of programming, prediction, self-evaluation, and mapping in the process. Combining student motivation to use Bee-Bot with Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot structures learning and uses robot technology to develop vital skills for student success.

Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot combines a teacher manual with with 150 student challenges on CD. Challenges are self-contained on one page to be easily printed and distributed to students. Each challenge includes the goal and instructions. Challenges are organized by type and level of difficulty, so teachers can match challenges to student experience and ability. With its broad range of materials, Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot works well to introduce problem-solving to younger students and develop more advanced skills in older ones to bring the excitement and hands-on learning throughout elementary school classrooms.

 

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Terrapin Software is one of the oldest and most experienced educational software publishers. Since 1979, Terrapin has offered the Logo computer language and related products that embody the "no floor, no ceiling" learn-by-doing Logo philosophy. These include Terrapin Logo, Bee-Bot and Pro-Bot turtle robots, Crystal Rain Forest adventure game, and Logo books and curriculum. By using Terrapin products, students enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking, mathematics, and programming skills while they are having fun.

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