Year 3 Recycled robots: drawing and sculpture worksheet

“Robots in real life” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 3 art unit “Recycled robots: drawing and sculpture”, for children aged 7 to 8, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 21 to 26 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Robots in real life

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 3 · Art & design · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can find robots at work in real places and collect ideas on a mood board.

A Look back3 min

1.
Mixing red and yellow makes which colour?
orangegreenpurple
2.
Which shape has four straight sides, with two long sides and two short sides?
squarerectanglecircle
3.
Which of these is a primary colour?
greenyellowpurple

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola sees a small round robot on a video. It moves across a floor all by itself.

Watch me

A small round robot cleaning a wooden floor in a plain living room

The robot hoover cleans the floor on its own.

It works in a home, so it is a home robot.

Ola puts a note on her mood board: home robot, round shape.

Now you

1.
A toy robot is round all over, with no flat faces or corners. Which 3D shape is it?
spherecubecone
2.
A robot arm builds cars on a long line. Where does it work?
gardenfactorybakery

C Your turn8 min

These questions ask about robot shape, colour and pattern. Look at the silver robot for ideas.

A silver robot with a boxy body and rows of bolts, standing in a plain room

1.
Put each robot part in the shape column it matches.
a ball-shaped heada square box bodya thin bendy arma round wheel
round boxy long and thin
2.
Ola sees a robot mower cutting grass in a park. Its body is the same colour as the grass. Which colour does she write on her mood board?
greenpurpleorange
3.
Join each robot part to the word it shows.
a round headbright red paintrows of bolts
patternshapecolour
4.
Look at the silver robot. Write one or two words on your mood board about what you like.

Say it out loud: Which question was about shape, which was about colour, and which was about pattern?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A large robot arm above a car body in an empty factory hall

Kit says: “Robots are only in films, so none of them help people in hospitals.”

1.
Is Kit right? Write why in one or two sentences.

E Think deeper4 min

A small wheeled rover on a rocky red plain under a dusty sky

1.
Name two real places, other than a home, factory or hospital, where a robot could work. Say why a robot would help in each place.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Robots in real life · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. orange If your child picks purple, they may be mixing red and blue. Point to the red and yellow swatches and ask which two colours they would stir together.

2. rectangle If your child picks square, ask whether all four sides are the same length. Then ask what the long sides look like.

3. yellow If your child picks green or purple, explain that these are mixed from primary colours. Ask which colour cannot be made by mixing others.

B

1. sphere If your child picks cube, ask whether a cube has flat faces or round ones. Hold up a ball and ask what shape it is.

2. factory If your child picks bakery, ask what gets built on the line. Cars are built in factories, so robot arms work there too.

C

1. boxy: a square box body · round: a ball-shaped head, a round wheel · long and thin: a thin bendy arm If your child puts a part in the wrong column, ask them to picture the part's outline and say whether it is round, boxy or long and thin.

2. green If your child picks purple or orange, ask what colour grass is. Then point to the swatch that matches it.

3. a round head → shape; bright red paint → colour; rows of bolts → pattern If your child joins the head to colour, ask whether the round head is about how it looks in outline or what colour it is.

4. Look for: a word or phrase naming the shape, colour, pattern or job of the silver robot

D

1. Look for: says No and gives a real place where robots work, such as a hospital, factory or home If your child agrees with Kit, they may think robots only exist in stories. Ask them to name one robot they have seen working in a real place.

E

1. Look for: two real places other than a home, factory or hospital, with a reason a robot would be useful in each

Words to use

Say“Where have you seen a robot working? What shape was it, and what colour?”

Instead of“Robots are only in films, so you do not need to know about them.”

After the sheet

Look up a robot hoover or a car factory robot with your child. Sketch its outline on scrap paper and pick one or two words to write on a mood board made from old magazine pages.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Design a robot(with a plan)
Build a Robot Maquette(with a plan)
Matching materials to jobs(with a plan)
Refining my robot(with a plan)
Tonal Study of a Robot(with a plan)

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