🚨 THE PERFECT END-OF-YEAR STEM ACTIVITY TO KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGED, COLLABORATING, AND PROBLEM-SOLVING AFTER TESTING SEASON! 🚨

Challenge students to think like real robotics engineers with this interactive blackline master companion activity designed to accompany the online “Out of Order” LEGO® SPIKE™ Prime lesson! Students will build, test, debug, analyze, and improve a robotic delivery cart while documenting their thinking, troubleshooting strategies, and programming observations directly into their engineering notebook pages.

This lesson focuses heavily on debugging, computational thinking, testing accuracy, and problem-solving through hands-on robotics challenges students LOVE.

Perfect For:

• Middle School Computer Science
• Robotics & Engineering
• STEM Labs
• Technology Applications
• End-of-Year Engagement
• After Testing Activities
• Sub Plans

Recommended for:

• 7th–8th Grade
• Advanced 5th–6th Grade
• Introductory High School Robotics

What’s Included:

✔ Interactive blackline master student page including the following:

• Reflection and critical thinking prompts
• Pseudocode planning sheets
• Debugging and decomposition activities
• Student checklists

✔ Answer key
✔ Teacher implementation guidance
✔ TEKS-aligned lesson support

Students Will:

• Build and test a robotic delivery cart
• Practice real-world debugging strategies
• Identify coding and logic errors
• Analyze robot movement accuracy
• Modify speed, distance, and sensor values
• Troubleshoot programming stack issues
• Reflect on computational thinking processes

Skills Covered:

• Debugging
• Algorithms & sequencing
• Computational thinking
• Sensor input analysis
• Error detection
• Critical thinking
• Robotics engineering
• Technical writing & reflection

TEKS Alignment:

Aligned to Texas Technology Applications TEKS including:

• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Communication & Collaboration
• Employability Skills
• Technology Operations & Concepts

Teacher Notes:

This lesson works great as:

• a 1–2 day activity,
• end-of-year enrichment,
• a collaborative robotics challenge,
• or part of a larger STEM rotation.

Students especially enjoy the “bug hunt” challenge where they identify and repair issues involving speed, operators, and sensor thresholds.

Minimal prep required once robotics kits and student devices are available.

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This activity is part of a larger 6-part LEGO® SPIKE™ Prime robotics series designed to progressively build student coding and computational thinking skills.

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