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Transform your robotics classroom into a simulated smart factory with this interactive blackline master companion activity designed to accompany the online “Place Your Order” robotics lesson! Students will build, analyze, decompose, and program a LEGO® SPIKE™ Prime robot while recording their thinking, pseudocode, reflections, and engineering analysis directly into their interactive notebook pages.

This resource is designed to keep middle school students actively engaged through real-world automation, event-based programming, decomposition, debugging, and computational thinking challenges.

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 “quality check” robot
• Analyze real-world AI and automation systems
• Practice decomposition and event-based programming
• Translate pseudocode into programming logic
• Debug and improve robotic movements
• Reflect on computational thinking strategies

Skills Covered:

• Algorithms & sequencing
• Conditional logic
• Debugging
• Decomposition
• Robotics engineering
• Event-based programming
• Computational thinking
• Technical writing & reflection

TEKS Alignment:

Aligned to Texas Technology Applications TEKS including:

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

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.

Minimal prep required once students have kits and online access.

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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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