Ozobot Playbook
Instructional Videos
Playlist
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Use the video as an introduction on how to get started with Ozobot Evo, from unboxing to the various forms of coding capilities and options.
Watch this tutorial to learn how to program the Ozobot Bit robot using the OzoBlockly editor. Learn how to create a block-based program and load it into Ozobot Bit.
Wondering how to use Ozobot evo in your classroom? This webinar will show you how to use evo with markers and paper and also with OzoBlockly, point out popular lessons and challenges, and walk you through all the help materials. In addition, they discuss how to update your evo.
Check out this brief overview Ozobot Classroom. The Ozobot team walks you through this STEAM platform. You’ll see features such as the dashboard, pacing guides, and lesson library that Ozobot Classroom has to offer. This video will help you decide if Ozobot Classroom is a teaching tool that fits your needs.
Watch this tutorial from SquiggleMom to learn a few practical details about programing the Ozobot with colors.
Give your students a STEAM Challenge to solve the problem of trash on the beach. The challenge: Construct a trash collection mechanism for Ozobot to clean up the trash while avoiding wildlife.
Ashley Schmidt illustates using Ozobot to retell a story
- Retell a story using transition words (In the beginning, then, next, the problem is, and finally) and a story map. Code your Ozobot to retell the story in the correct order using at least 3 codes.
- Given events that happen in a story, have students create a route that puts the events in the correct sequence using at least 4 different codes.
- Create a dialogue between two characters in the story. Write a code to navigate the conversation.
Ashley Schimdt illustrates how she uses ozobot to code life cycles
- Create a diagram of the water cycle. Include the words: precipitation, evaporation, and condensation. Put a picture clue next to each word. Use at least two direction codes.
- Can you create a (butterfly, deer, plant, chicken, etc.) life cycle for your Ozobot to travel along? Use important vocabulary words for each stage and draw a picture. Use at least 3 different codes or more.
- Can you create a food chain with at least 5 different parts. Draw a picture of each part of your food chain and label it. Use at least five different codes!
In this lesson students will read clues to identify five different influential people in Black history and draw a picture to show a major event for each. Students will create an interactive timeline using Color Codes to program their bot to move through history. Create a free account to view the full lesson plan.
In this remote-friendly lesson, students will choose an influential Black scientist and/or engineer, research their lives, and create a biographical timeline for Ozobot to follow. Create a free account to view the full lesson plan.
First Grade teacher, Ms. Sparacino, created a lesson plan where she integrated Ozobot coding skills within her St. Patrick’s Day ELA lesson.
Check out this parts of speech ozobot ELA lesson from Ozobot makers and get your students excited about language.
Michelle Krieger shows how to use ozobot to teach students multiplication facts in game play fashion, making multiplication fun and engaging.
Download Ozobot Bit Classroom Application: Multiplication Table Practice
Check out this video from Ozobot’s team offering four weeks of remote-friendly, standards-aligned lessons for core subjects, allowing students to learn ELA, Math, and more without sacrificing STEAM learning.
Check out this video lesson from Ozobot makers which illustrates the use of ozobot to teach the science concepts of changes in matter.
Check out this video from Education Technology Specialists showing how you can use Ozobot as the character in a story map of Little Red Riding Hood’s Adventure. This lesson idea incorporates a variety of STEAM skills including coding, story telling, art, math, and speaking and narration.
Teaching Resources
Codes Reference Sheet
It helps to print out these code guides and provide them to students as they lay-out their sequence (algorithm) of instructions.
Color Code Guide
Ozobots use sensors to follow lines and read Color Codes. This guide will assist you in understanding how to create your color codes to ensure Ozobot can read them accurately.
Color Code Challenges
If you are looking for introductory lessons that will assist students in learning the color codes, these color code challenges are a perfect option.
Ozobot Coding Stickers
Check out this wonderful sticker set with different coding functions that young learners can simply peel and stick. It allows students to create complex routes and loops that Ozobot has to overcome.
Using Ozobot in STEAM
Check out Meredith Anderson’s blog article and resources related to getting started with Ozobot in the classroom.
Ozobot Classroom
Check out Ozobot Classroom for hundreds of free STEAM lessons. Ozobot Classroom is completely free, only requiring you to set up an account.
Remote Learning Activities
If you are looking for at home, or distance learning, activities click here. Ozobot distance learning activities offer cross curriculum fun at home.
Educator Tips & Tricks
Ozobots can be so much fun, but sometimes give you multiple problems. Check out some of the troubleshooting tricks discovered by Dena aka Miss Tech Queen, over the years of using Ozobots.
Multiplication Practice
Teach multiplication tables from 1 through 9 to your students in a fun way with Ozobot Bit Classroom Application: Multiplication Table Practice.
Ozobot Simulator
Engage learners in coding & CS from anywhere. A freeform version of our popular OzoBlockly Challenges, this is a great solution for:
- Students working remotely without bots
- Testing out code before sending programs to Ozobot
AND, it’s completely free to use!
Ozobot Wooden Puzzles
Check out this set that contains 96 puzzles with different functions (straight lines, turns, pauses, etc.). It allows you to create complex routes and loops that Ozobot has to overcome.
Lesson Ideas
Check out this RobotLab lesson Blood Flow for grades 3-6 where students will code robots to mimic how blood flows through the heart and the body with a focus on the process of oxygenating blood.
RobotLab offers a platform called EngageK12 which offers lesson-plans for any subject, any age-group and any robot by browsing categories. You can use free text to search based on keywords, or even Common Core, NGSS or TEKS standards. This lesson is one of their free lessons within the platform.
Check out Ashley Schmidt’s Writing ideas utilizing Ozobot:
- Have your students create story maps/graphic organizers/etc before writing their story using an Ozobot.
- Students will create a map of important story events and code their Ozobot to travel to the events in the correct order.
- Students will use a setting planning page and code Ozobot to travel to each different setting in their story in the order that they appear.
Check out this RobotLab lesson Intro to Programming and Loops, for grades 2-8 where students will:
- Learn about programming, loops, and how to navigate the Ozobot Blockly environment.
- Edit the square walk program to have Ozobot walk in a rectangle.
- Write a program which has Ozobot dance.
RobotLab offers a platform called EngageK12 that offers lesson-plans for any subject, any age-group and any robot by browsing categories. You can use free text to search based on keywords, or even Common Core, NGSS or TEKS standards. This lesson is one of their free lessons within the platform.
Check out this RobotLab lesson Maze Solving Algorithms, for grades 6-8 where students will:
- Write a program that would solve a maze in the most effective way.
- Write a program that would solve a variety of mazes in the most effective way.
- Track and analyze the benefits and drawbacks of different algorithms to solve mazes.
RobotLab offers a platform called EngageK12 that offers lesson-plans for any subject, any age-group and any robot by browsing categories. You can use free text to search based on keywords, or even Common Core, NGSS or TEKS standards. This lesson is one of their free lessons within the platform.
Check out Ashley Schmidt’s Social Studies Lesson with Ozobot:
- Create the quickest route that reaches the six features (James River, Appalachian Mountains, Mississippi River, Rio Grande River, Rocky Mountains, and Great Lakes).
- Create a timeline of a Famous American’s life that includes at least 6 important events.
- Design a flight route that travels to all seven continents!
- Label the five regions in the US on a blank map.
- What types of resources are needed to make goods or provide services? (Human, natural, & capital resources). Code your Ozobot to travel to each type of resource and ultimately make it to your final good/service.
Ozobot’s team offers four weeks of remote-friendly, standards-aligned lessons for core subjects, allowing students to learn ELA, Math, and more without sacrificing STEAM learning. Whether your school is fully remote, learning in-person, or a hybrid of both, these flexible lessons will help save you time! The lesson creator, Melissa Toohey from the Ozobot Education Team, walkes through the remote-friendly format (including instructional videos for self-guided learning and Google Classroom integration) and the first set of lessons (introducing students to coding with Ozobot).
Follow along with the slides here
Ozobot regularly releases remote-friendly lessons that are flexible for in-person instruction, so keep an eye on their webinar calendar for PD opportunities to learn about lesson releases here.
Check out Ashley Schmidt’s lesson on math fact fluency:
- Create a template for students to use that addresses math fact fluency skills (addition/subtraction or multiplication/division). Can students create a route that answers the missing addend/subtrahend questions using at least one code per line?
- Create a fact family home by writing your 3 numbers in a triangle formation. Have students write the problems created with it to the side. Use at least three codes when designing the route to each number.
- Can you show others how to problem solve? Have students create a “How To ______” page, which covers your current math skill. For example, how to use Touch Point Money. Have students illustrate a picture and write an explanation. Create a path for the Ozobot that helps the reader read the steps in sequential order.
These completely free teaching resources give students an opportunity to reconstruct the short stories from The Tweeting Galah cybersafety book, written by Kim Maslin, using Ozobots as the main character. The story maps are differentiated for different age groups and skill levels, also including an extension activity for stronger students.
You can access each of the FREE story maps using the links below:
- The Curious Case of the Overly Playful Platypus
- The Strange Story of the Singing Clownfish
- The Tale of the Tweeting Galah
- The Sensational Saga of the Bumbling Bilby
Be sure to check out all the books in the series!
