Imparare con la Robotica - Applicazioni di problem solving

The book presents an innovative path for teaching/learning scientific disciplines, based on the building and programming of educational robots (ER). ER is emerging as an effective approach to foster learning processes. Though disegned in favour of senior secondary schools, it may be used at the junior level with adaptations by teachers. The book contains 12 multidisciplinary activities, centered on problem solving, motivating the active participation of students, protagonist of all the phases of each experience (design, building, development, experimentation, analysis). Robots are considered more as educational tools than objects to be studied, helping teachers within their curricular discipline, particularly but not exclusively, maths, physics, computer science and sciences in general. After a methodological introduction, for each one of the presented experiences we provide: the text to be proposed to students, some teaching notes including building and programming instructions, and some questions to deepen the arguments.