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Games, Toys and Robots

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At school and at home you can use computer games, toys and robots to help you learn. This quiz is a simple computer game. Some computer games can help you with math or history or science. Many toys have programs to make them work. Robots are like toys that you can program. The programs make robots move about and do lots of things.

1 .

Sarah is using a computer game to find out about animals in Africa. This will help her in _______ and _________.

Math and History

English and Maths

Science and Geography

History and PE

What computer games have you used at school?

2 .

What type of computer game are you playing at this moment to help you to learn?

Warriors and Dragons

A quiz

Football game

Car chase

Will you get ten out of ten in this quiz? If not, don’t worry - try again

3 .

Lucy is at school. She is playing a game on a website. It is all about the number of legs different minibeasts have. This will help Lucy with her:

History

Geography

Writing

Science

It will also help Lucy with her reading and her numbers

4 .

Sam and Luke each have a Roamer at school. The teacher says that she wants both Roamers to go round the classroom.

Sam programs his Roamer to go round clockwise.

Luke programs his Roamer to go round anti-clockwise.

Who is right?

Sam

Luke

Both Sam and Luke

Neither Sam nor Luke

Both Roamers go round the classroom - they just go round in different directions

5 .

There are lots of computer games at school to help Sam learn. What else can Sam use to help him at school?

The internet

Books

Programmable toys

All three of these

There are lots of different ways to learn

6 .

Ellie is using a floor turtle at school. The turtle is a robot. What does the turtle need to make it do what Ellie wants?

Food

Instructions

Water

Money

Codes in a program are a set of instructions

7 .

Alice has made a computer game. She gets her friend, Sarah to try it. There is a map of the world on the screen. Sarah clicks on the Go button. The computer says: Where is the Atlantic Ocean? Sarah clicks on the wrong ocean. What does the computer say?

Bad luck, try again

Stop playing this game

Wrong!

Stupid!

Alice wants to help her friends learn, not to be nasty to them!

8 .

In Luke’s school there is a toy robot. It is called Bee-Bot. Luke programs Bee-Bot to move round the classroom in a square. The square has sides that are each 10 meters long. Which one of these is Luke’s program for Bee-Bot?

Forward 10 - Turn Right - Back 10 - Turn Right - Forward 10 - Turn Right - Back 10

Forward 20 - Turn Right - Forward 20 - Turn Right - Forward 20- Turn Right - Forward 20

Forward 10 - Turn Left - Forward 10 - Turn Right - Forward 10 - Turn Left - Forward 10

Forward 10 - Turn Right - Forward 10 - Turn Right - Forward 10- Turn Right - Forward 10

Which one of these programs would make Bee-Bot move in a square with sides of 20 meters?

9 .

The Roamer is a toy robot. Sam and his friends can program the Roamer to move about. The Roamer has wheels. It also has a small motor inside it. Where does the power come from to make the Roamer move?

Electric batteries

The carpet

Food

Sweets

Lots of toys use batteries to make them work

10 .

Sam is at school. Sam and his friends are playing with a toy robot on the floor. The toy robot is called a Roamer. Sam can _______ the Roamer to move about.

Push

Program

Pull

Bend

Have you used a Roamer?

Author: David Bland