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Programming Spheros in Middle School

This year, I was fortunate enough to collaborate with my amazing Teacher-Librarian to teach my Grade 6 students about Spheros . What are spheros? Spheros are spherical robots that are great for beginners because they are very durable! The library doors were open one day and one of my students made an error in her program and the sphero raced out the door, down the stairs, and ended up behind a vending machine!  How did we use spheros? I'm not an expert in robotics, but luckily for me (and my students), our Teacher-Librarian is. She began working with my class once a week on programming in a variety of lessons, which culminated in our students working in partners to program the spheros to reach specific coordinates on a coordinate plane.  This group decided to make a right angle triangle with their sphero. You can see where they marked the page with their attempted coordinates, and they were very close to their goal! Once the students were pretty sure their program was accurate...