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Subject: STEM
Grade Level: 4th-12th
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Remote Learning Compatible

What is SAM Labs?

SAM Labs STEAM Kits provide students with smart building blocks and an intuitive interface to creatively connect and interact with technology.SAM is a smart robotics construction kit. SAM Labs makes use of SAM blocks, including buttons, lights, sensors, motors, and so much more. SAM blocks are connected and activated wirelessly via Bluetooth to the SAM Space app. The SAM app is simple and intuitive to use. Students can program SAM blocks to move, illuminate, or play sound with ease. Combining different SAM blocks, students can create and program a million inventions; the only limit is their imaginations!

Why SAM Labs?

With SAM Labs, schools, teachers, and students receive a hands-on curriculum, engaging software, and project based learning resources specifically designed to prepare every student for the connected world. IoT is made simple for every classroom with SAM Labs’ classroom kits which model the type of development and interconnectivity being driven by leading technology companies.

Product Details

Subject: STEM

Grade Levels: 4th-12th

Type: XXXXXX

Teaching Method: XXXXXX

Operating System: XXXXXX

Online Learning: XXXXXX

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What Teachers Say

“SAM Labs' versatility and ease of use make lessons feel new, exciting and engaging.”

 

Rory McGrath, Deputy Headteacher, Shacklewell Primary School (UK)

Importance of Robotics

PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS

 

In today’s fast-paced technology-driven world, it’s important now more than ever to prepare students for the future. Robots are an integral part of students’ everyday lives and most of them don’t even know it! 

 

Teaching robotics to young students throughout their schooling can increase their ability to be creative and innovative thinkers and more productive members of society. a whole new world to them and exciting opportunities that they wouldn’t have access to otherwise. Robotics is a simpler to understand and more tangible introduction to programming. Students have the opportunity to create something tangible and make it perform the actions that they program it to do. Robotics is a field that is easily accessible to a wide range of students with varying talents and skills.

ROBOTICS & CODING BECOMING INCREASINGLY PREVALENT


As robotics and computers become increasingly prevalent in students’ lives, understanding programming and programming concepts it is becoming very important for students’ success. Robots are a fun, easy, and effective way to learn about computer programming.

BENEFITS OF ROBOTICS IN PRIMARY GRADE SCHOOL 


In primary grades, students learn using their eyes and hands, drawing, molding, and manipulating objects. At this age they are starting to learn by reading. Having the robots to work through problems visually helps students with complex concepts. Robots are a fun way for students to apply and experiment with concepts that they are learning.

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CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING


The robots provide another opportunity for creative problem­ solving. Students should learn to look at a problem in many ways, rather than applying a formula that they are given. When programming robotics, there can be many solutions to a single problem, and different students may take different paths to arrive at a solution. Students get to discuss their processes and the logic that they used to understand different methods and solutions. This opens students to the real world process of problem solving!

ALGORITHM CREATION & USE


The use of robots teach children to create and use algorithms. An algorithm is a sequence of steps that should be followed in a particular order to achieve a goal. Most students are unaware that so many algorithms are used in their everyday lives. Algorithms like addition in math class are more obvious, but students use algorithms every day when they get ready in the morning or take a certain path to get to school. Even the way they make a sandwich or tie their shoes is an algorithm!
 

By seeing a task in terms of a set of steps, students learn to break tasks and problems into smaller pieces. This makes problem solving easier! Problem solving involves the skill of breaking complex problems into simpler ones. Once they have broken down a problem, they can see which parts they already know how to solve.
 

Algorithms also help students understand the passage of time, and learn to relate steps or tasks to each other in terms of time, which is a key lesson at this age. Like the plot of a story, the steps of an algorithm must be performed in a particular order, and students should be encouraged to use words like “first,” “then,” and “finally” when writing algorithms.
 

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DEMOS

Upon request, Sunburst can provide a virtual demonstration of Ignite! Learning. Contact us today.

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TRAINING

All customers receive free virtual training and access to the Ignite! Learning knowledge base.

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SUPPORT

Online and phone support available during normal Sunburst working hours. We typically respond within 48 hours.

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