Download N Go Review: Rocking Robots

Disclaimer: As a member of the Download N Go review team I am provided with a PDF copy of the unit study to use, review, and post about on this blog. No other compensation is provided. Thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
I have exciting news! I was chosen to be part of Download N Go's review team!! Our first review was for a unit I had been eying - Rocking Robots. Marshall often pretends to be a robot, walking around like one and using a mechanical voice to talk. Ironically my last post was about winding him up to do his work. So this was a very fun, appropriate unit for him.


The Old Schoolhouse offers DNG unit studies at only $7.95 each. They come loaded with 110 (in this case) pages of fun. There is something for every learner. Each Download N Go unit has links to the web to read, watch, and learn about the topic at hand, that you can link to right from the PDF. After visiting a link or two, there are questions or activities to do to help recall and remember what you just learned. Also included are lapbook pieces showcasing your weeks' work. They also give a list of recommended books to read during the week. While the books are fun and helpful to delve more into the topic of robots, everything you absolutely need for the unit is right in the Download N Go PDF. So if you're in a bind and need a unit study STAT, DNG is way easy to do on the fly!I used Rocking Robots with Marshall, my 5 year old. The recommended grade level is kindergarten - fourth grade. There is a lot of information covered, including history, science, math, language (vocabulary words), and hands on fun with drawing and crafts as well.

This week we learned:
Day 1: What Is a Robot?
Day 2: The History of Robots
Day 3: People and Places of Robots
Day 4: Science Secrets of Robots
Day 5: Goodies and Gadgets of Robots

Between the time I was chosen for the review team and the time I had to have this posted by, only gave us a week to do the unit. While the Download N Go studies are designed to be completed in only a week, for a younger child (like my 5yo) I would recommend spreading it across 2 weeks OR simply go through the unit first and find what will be most age appropriate attention span-wise for your child/ren. A couple of the days had us online looking at robot clips and reading web pages here and there for about 2 hours. Marshall got bored and wiggly. The great thing about Download N Go though, is that you can take it and make it your own and tailor it to your son or daughter's interests! The activities and hands-on suggestions were fun, educational, and also provided a nice break from the computer work.

We learned about robots in space.

A fun dot-to-dot, always a hit!

As a science experiment, we made a water clock. To find out what that is, you'll just have to visit Download N Go and get a Rocking Robots unit of your own!

I am linking this post up to the Rocking Robots Blog Tour. Check out what some other reviewers had to say about Rocking Robots!