KitHub's Motorized Bot kit is a unique hands-on robotics activity for students to complete with a parent or teacher, and teaches students about simple circuits. The kit includes a motor, battery, light and instructions for building a simple moving robot. Upon purchasing, adults will receive a link to download a lesson plan including explanation of the electronics concepts (how and why) and related vocabulary. In only a few steps, including connecting a motor and an LED light, student will see their robot move. While there are limited steps, adults will likely need to walk the student through each step because of unfamiliar vocabulary. Younger students also might need help with the mechanics of assembling the robot, including cutting and securing the tape to properly hold up the relatively heavy motor to the light paper cup. Students with weaker fine motor skills or who have difficulty with spatial relations or construction projects might need more support. Students will enjoy decorating their robots and experimenting with adding different types of legs and seeing how that changes the robot's movement. The materials provided are simple and authentic, which adds to the home-made feeling of the experience and accomplishment of making something oneself. With the appropriate adult support and encouragement, this will be an interesting and motivating first robotics activity for students. KitHub offers many other engineering and electronics kits for a range of ages for home and school.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Fine Motor Skills
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Has small parts that may be difficult to manipulate (e.g. battleship pegs)
• Assembly is difficult or product may break or fall apart easily
• Self-regulation
• Assembly is difficult or product may break or fall apart easily
• Visual Motor Speed
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Has small parts that may be difficult to manipulate (e.g. battleship pegs)
• Assembly is difficult or product may break or fall apart easily

The Motorized ArtBot kit comes with everything you need to get kids started with creative robotics. Build your own personal, lovable bot that will take off as soon as you power it on and will definitely make a mess if you let it. Every bot is as unique as the young innovator that makes it, no two are alike! With this project, kids will learn how to turn on a hobby motor, light-up an LED, create a simple circuit and use their imaginations to decorate their new small pal. Add a few markers, stick the bot on a piece of paper and it will draw spirals. Add a sponge, dip it into paint and it's transformed into a painting bot. Recommended for ages 5 and up.