Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal what a robot is and how it follows instructions to do a job. A quick full episode (about 6 minutes) from the how-things-work cartoon, easy to drop into a science or STEM warm-up.
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This episode shows what a robot is and how it follows instructions to do a job.
- What makes something a robot?
- What jobs can robots help people do?
- Does a robot think for itself, or does it follow instructions?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: robot, instructions, program, machine, job.
Try it: Be the robot: have a partner give you step-by-step instructions to 'draw a square'.