Benchmark Robots Lesson 1

Wednesday, May 21
4th Grade Zoom

By Dana Stibor

Agenda

• Schedule and announcements

• Benchmark story/assignment

• Games

Schedule and Announcements

Last Two Weeks!

• Friday at 9:40: Last virtual field trip of the year

• Monday: NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day)

• Last regular Zooms on Tuesday and Wednesday next week

Poll

How are you feeling

• happy

• sad

• sleepy

• excited

• not sure

Poll

Would you ever drive in a car driven by a robot?

• Yes!

• No

• Maybe later when the technology has been tested more

• Not sure

​Me Last Weekend

I will read this to you.

It will also be on Seesaw.

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Humans and Robots Can Work Together

Match

Match the question word to the words from the article.

• In the second half of the twentieth century

• properly

• in the workplace

• robot-assisted surgery

• white collar profesionals

when

how

where

what

who

• when

• how

• where

• what

• who

Categorize

Options (13)

At first

For instance

However

In addition

professional

stiffly

quickly

moving

replacing

perform

robot

computer program

human worker

Organize the words or phrases from the article into the correct categories

transition words

descriptive words

action words

nouns (person, place, thing)

You will have some questions that look like this example:

Look through the article. Expand the sentence to answer the question "why?"

robot-assisted surgery is growing in popularity

You will have some questions that look like this example:

Look through the article. Expand the sentence to answer the question "why?"

robot-assisted surgery is growing in popularity

Robot-assisted surgery is growing in popularity because once a surgical robot is trained, it can determine how to best perform an operation.

Open Ended

Look at the article. Expand this sentence to answer the question "when?" When you rewrite the sentence, make sure to use proper capitalization and punctuation.

the world entered the Digital Age

Open Ended

Look at the article. Expand this sentence to answer the questions "who?" and "why?" You will replace the underlined pronouns with more specific words. When you rewrite the sentence, make sure to use proper capitalization and punctuation.

They are able to diagnose diseases better than humans can.

Multiple Choice

What opinion does the writer of this editorial have?

• Robots are taking over professional jobs.

• Robots are only taking over factory jobs.

• Robots should do all jobs.

• Robots should not do any jobs.