Teacher’s Guide
For all teachers, if you want to teach this to your students, please take a look at our sample lesson schedule:
Teacher VRS STEM Mini-Course Lesson Schedule
Advance Lessons
(Weeks can be sessions)
Background resources
How to use the VRS click here
The 10 lessons Advance set
The game VRS Online/Chromebook https://www.vrobotsim.online/homepage.html
PseudoCode ws click here Multiplayer set up directions click here
Game pad UG functions The Engineering Notebook master copy
Scoring Rules scoring rules ultimate goal click here
# 1-Intro and Game Reveal
Lesson #1
Lesson #2
Week 1 intro to lesson Video 2 15 min Game Reveal
Launch of the FIRST Tech Challenge and Engineering Notebook
People in Group
Name of your team
Answer the following:
What’s your mission
What excites you about this Unit
What are you wondering about this Unit
Extra Materials or Video
***Launch For teachers*** This isn’t a Robot https://bit.ly/3x8i0zD
Optional Hw
Reflect in Engineering Notebook:What is FIRST?
# 2-play the game teleop
Lesson #3
Lesson #4
(no intro video)
Students play teleop game- written directions video directions click here
What did you do? What did I learn?
Did you include an image?
Extra Materials or Video
**Need video game remote controllers” xbox controllers
Optional HW
how to use the VRS video click here Getting Started VRS-ug
Locating the blocks for programming https://youtu.be/7PgNPSJnA3Q
How to use basic blocks https://youtu.be/39l5_7c1CYY
Reflection
Explain how you controlled the robot?
# 3-Start to Program
Lesson #5 Week 3 intro to lesson 5 Video 1
Show how to use video click here
Or students open website -follow “text” directions
Autonomous-Drive to the white line 2 motors
Write your pseudocode
Drive to the white line hint https://youtu.be/x7BokrnYRVQ
Drive to white line https://youtu.be/ZgVQHswMonk
Lesson #6 Week 3 intro to lesson 6 Video #2
Introduce-Multiple Solutions to every problem
Autonomous-Drive to white line 4 motors
Driver to white line with four motors hint https://youtu.be/c4eEeLBST9A
the code click alternative code click here
Engineering Notebook
-why do programmers use pseudocode?
Extra Materials or Video
1. Locating the blocks for programming https://youtu.be/7PgNPSJnA3Q
2. How to use basic blocks https://youtu.be/39l5_7c1CYY
Homework-Optional
Compare/Contrast
the Difference between driving a robot with 2 and 4 motors
the Difference between TeleOp Vs Autonomous
What does it mean-Multiple Solutions to every problem?
4-turning/strafing
Lesson #7 Week 4 intro to lesson 7 Video #1
Autonomous-Drive to white line-Turn 90 right and then Make a square
(remind about Multiple Solutions)
Driving make a 90 degree turn hint https://youtu.be/Mwt1i6DcoAw
Lesson #8 Week 4 intro to lesson 8 Video #2
Autonomous-What does it mean to strafe
hint https://youtu.be/MXjoF2XXLAE
Try Strafing to right to Strafing to left
Try Strafing in a square
Engineering Notebook
Why would a programmer want to strafe
Extra Materials or Video
Turn
the code up close
alternative program #3 Drive to White Line Turn 90 degrees the code-Redstone
90 degree turn option 2 motors click here or scroll down for 4 motors
Strafe
the code click
solution https://youtu.be/IGs1DomVS3w
strafing or moving sideways, first to the right then to the left https://youtu.be/UWXSHuDVKuU
the strafing code (scroll to end for strafe with variables) click here Strafe in a square click here
Alternative code click here
Hw-optional
Compare/Contrast
Strafing VS 2 wheel drive
How would you turn to the left
When might you want to Stafe
Review video: Programming the shooter https://youtu.be/0aAjqJnvU1E
5-shooting rings at the targets
Lesson #9 Week 5 intro to lesson 9 Video #1
Shooting rings
Drive and Shoot Rings into the high goal hint https://youtu.be/t43pUXOM0Xk
Programming the shooter https://youtu.be/0aAjqJnvU1E
Scoring
Engineering Notebook-What target did you shoot at? why?
Extra Materials or Video
Hw-optional
What happens if you hit the middle target.
How would you detect the number of rings at the start of Autonomous
0/2/4 rings.Why does this matter?
Review Scoring rules- make a plan for your Autonomous?
Write out the Steps for your Autonomous
Extra Materials or Video Example https://youtu.be/HeDn63Jyms4
Make a Promote Video-Tik Tok style-The VRS is ….
Make speech for 4th-grade students to look forward to for outreach
Engineering Notebook
5a PowerShot Rings
Lesson #11 Week 6-intro to this week video All week
Shoot ring Powershots hint https://youtu.be/SEw5JmZKjJQ
Or https://youtReload ringsu.be/e9HhnPiYGC4
Learn to reload rings
how to make your robot reload rings https://youtu.be/c89Kd2PHrrc or https://youtu.be/35_2vKtuvBQ the reload ring code one of many options
Lesson #12
Competition
Engineering Notebook-why do you want to reload rings?
Extra Materials or Video
Drive and Shoot at the Powershots hint https://youtu.be/SEw5JmZKjJQ
the code click
solution (with go to position) https://youtu.be/THkZypgWRhg
HW-optional
Why do you think that the towers go red/blue/red?
6-Wobble Goals
Lesson #9 Video on wobble
Wobble Goal-1st position hint https://youtu.be/9jmv3Qa42sQ
the code 3 alternative methods click
solution https://youtu.be/j7tnpOZ_xDw
How to move the wobble goal https://youtu.be/kf8yT6F7_5c
Wobble Goal 2nd Position with Encoders hint https://youtu.be/Bks7X4O9m84
the code click
solution with encoders and run to position https://youtu.be/iCbP_eR3QAU
Wobble Goal 3rd position hint https://youtu.be/qqN5xwUKk3M
the code click
Solution https://youtu.be/qqN5xwUKk3M
7-Your Autonomous
Lesson #13
Finalize your autonomous-
Lesson #14
The Class competition- everyone get 2 runs
Show Promote Videos
What the final event might look like https://youtu.be/V9XyO6ZyN5c
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