• DocumentCode
    257090
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Henmi, Tomohiro ; Ohnishi, Yoshihiro ; Yamasaki, Yasuaki ; Sogo, Hiroyuki

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electro-Mech. Eng., Kagawa Coll., Takamatsu, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    10-12 Aug. 2014
  • Firstpage
    287
  • Lastpage
    290
  • 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.
  • Keywords
    control engineering education; educational courses; educational institutions; educational robots; microrobots; PBL education; college student; elementary school children; minirobot disassembling; minirobot reassembling; project based learning; robot workshop; Conferences; Educational institutions; Mechanical engineering; Mechatronics; Robots; Schedules; Decomposing and reassembling; PBL; elementary school children; mini-robot;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kumamoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAMechS.2014.6911667
  • Filename
    6911667