Design and make a cover for the robot.

• Basic template for simple cover
• Art materials

Classroom activity

• Time to give your robot some character.
• Cover is to be based on one of two themes
• Animal or insect
• Machine
• Get the children to think about what design features their machine would have.  For example, the lunar rover has an aerial and satellite dish to send and receive signals.  It has an on-board camera to take pictures and film of the surface of the moon.  It also has two grabbers to allow it to collect moon rock samples.

1. Plan activity

• Team to work together to decide on
• Choice of theme, animal or machine
• Create paper/pencil designs showing different ideas and concepts.

2. Make cover

• Before doing a lot of decorative work, get the team to check that the cover fits on the robot and can be easily moved to access the switches.

3. Test

• Run robot in mode “J1” (as per activity 2) to check that it does not interfere with the operation of the robot.
• Take pictures and video of all the covers.

• Please feel free to choose any theme.  Perhaps the topic can reflect other projects and work
• The supplied template is the simplest we could devise and can be a bit 2-dimensional.  Some of the more artistic pupil could experiment with more 3-dimensional structures.
• Please send me photographs and video and I will put some of them on the gallery page.  We will assume that all pictures and video are cleared to be put on the Robokid web site for public view.