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The article is focused on educational robotics - on the construction and programming of robots in school environment. It characterises the forms in which the teaching of work with robotic kit can take place. It also brings the results of research into students? attitudes to work with robotic kits, whether their use has a positive effect on improving students? relationship to programming and technology as such. The work with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotic kit is described from the point of view of the construction and programming of robots in the extracurricular activity of computer science for pupils of the second primary education stage of elementary school. The article describes how to proceed if a sufficient number of real robotic kits is not available or if full-time form of education is changed to distance form. We also point out how to teach the construction and programming of robots in a simulation environment. We had had previous experience with using Virtual Robotics Toolkits during the present-form learning and therefore we used it in the distance form of teaching as well. This virtual kit allows to construct and program robots LEGO Mindstorms in 3D environment, which simulated various problem situations. Pupils can construct robot models at home in LEGO Digital Designer software using virtual blocks and then use Virtual Robotics Toolkits to continue working with the robot and control it by program. It replaces the use of physical models. It is a full-featured replacement of programming real robot kits. In the article we report on our experience in the construction and programming of robots in both full-time and distance forms of teaching.

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