Pressing: “closest to the ball”
Students write one rule each bot uses on its own to decide whether to chase the ball or go back to its place.
You need: a device per student or pair, a screen for the class, and the link kickbots.reach500.com
Learning goals
- Use the “when the other team has it” event.
- Write one rule that several bots follow.
- Predict the team’s behaviour before testing, then check.
Lesson steps
- 5 min Ask: if every player runs at the ball, what happens? And if nobody does?
- 10 min Show training level 2, “Win it back”, against Turbo.
- 20 min Each student writes a prediction, builds the rule and watches the test pitch: was the prediction right?
- 10 min Discuss: why is one bot pressing enough? What do the others do?
Vocabulary
rulepredictiontestevent
How you know they learned it
The student writes a prediction and compares it with what happened on the test pitch.