I need some suggestions to help me get started on designing a robot for my 1st grade class.

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Are you a student or the teacher?
I did not realize they are teaching robotics in the first grade now.
I is for my 1st grade daughter. I is suppose to be simple and not so big that the student cannot carry it themselves. They are ready a robot story next week.
Look for some of the references cited in this article:
http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/robots-americas-answer-to-dwindling-math-scores-100469.html

Do a web search with the words <first grade robotics project> and you get some other links as well.

Getting a good reference may require a trip to a library. It might be worthwhile looking at the Lego Mindstorms product line and literature.

This is not my field at all, as you can tell. I hope someone else will respond