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In fall 2018, the national Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) launched a large scale investment into Educational Robotics, providing 65.000 fourth grade students, with micro:bits. With years of experience teaching STEM related afterschool activities, it is the authors experience, that working with the breadboard and the popular Fritzing diagrams, in combination with the micro:bit, comes with its own set of problems. Materials aimed at solving these were developed and a study with four experimental conditions in a between-subject design, in which participants (N = 172) engaged in a short teaching session on electronics, as well as taking a pre- and post-test, were carried out. Results show that the provided solutions both strengthened the understanding of the breadboard and limited the gap between diagram and breadboard.
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In the Danish primary school system, fourth grade student are usually between 9–11 years old.
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Adafruit, Dragon Tail: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3695. [Accessed 31 Jan. 2020].
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littleBits: https://littlebits.com/. [Accessed 31 Jan. 2020].
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Pedersen, B.K.M.K., Larsen, J.C., Nielsen, J. (2021). From Diagram to Breadboard: Limiting the Gap and Strengthening the Understanding. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67411-3_31
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