Trial of the PBL education for elementary school children by a workshop to assemble mini-robots — Disassemble and reassemble a mini-robot

Abstract

This paper explains a workshop to assemble a mini-robot for PBL(Project based Learning) education of elementary schoolchildren. In this workshop, at first, elementary schoolchildren disassemble and analyze a mini-robot, respectively, with the support from a college student who made this minirobot. Finally, a new mini-robot which achieves another new task is designed and rebuilt by each child based on analyzed result of disassembled mini-robot.