Fukuoka Kasuya-gun Singu Pablic Junior High School@Technology for the third grade
"Make the control program to move a Mars Exploration Rescue Robot." Unit curriculum
It is an exploitation case in Fukuoka Kasuya-gun Singu Pablic Junior High School, the class of Technology for the third grade. In study of the third grade "information and computer" area in this school, students learn the expression activities (practical use of application software, and application of information and telecommunications) using a personal computer, and controlling apparatus by a personal computer automatically. Especially, in the "Make the control program to move a Mars Exploration Rescue Robot." unit, it is positioned as a compilation of the study which solves the subject in Technology. Through operating a personal computer, and using relation by people and a computer, relation by the computer and a peripheral device (mechanical arts), and the Internet, the composition of a unit is devised so that a student can learn relation of people and things. The following is the conclusion of record of the instruction plan and the class.
[Instruction plan: A total of 10 hours]
- Primary
The world of automatic control. The present condition and the future of the "Robot."...................... 1 hour
- secondary
Let's move the "Robot" of the program with your computer!.......... 1 hour
- 3rd order
It is application of a program. Let's consider the program of "Mars Exploration Robot"!...... 6 hours
1. Creation and execution adapting a contact sensor of a program
2. Creation and improvement using an infrared sensor of a program
3. Improvement of the whole program
4. Creation of a conclusive report
- 4th order
Let's write a letter to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)! Use of the translation site of the Internet. .......... 2 hours
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