Grade 6 · Technology · Lesson 29

Sensors, robots or micro:bit intro

A robot is a computer with a body. It senses the world, runs a program, and acts on what it learns. The same loop — input, process, output — runs inside every smart device, from a self-driving car to a pocket-sized board called the micro:bit.

What this lesson teaches

1Define a sensor as a device that turns a real-world signal into computer input
2Match common sensors to the kind of input they detect
3Sort actions a robot can do into Input and Output categories
4Describe the input → process → output loop on a micro:bit board

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