Watch the video below which is called 'Girl and Robot.'

A brief overview of the video -

The young girl inventor builds a steam powered robot but has trouble getting it started.  After turning up her power source too high the machine explodes, spraying cranks, pistons and sprockets around the room.

There is a surprising and touching ending as we discover that the robot is alive and has saved our heroine from a falling girder. 

Choose any of the writing tasks below:

• Design your own robot/robots and label with descriptions. 
• Create a story which goes beyond the video. The video might only be part of the wider story.
• Create a set of diary pages for the inventor, charting her successes and failures over a week.  Perhaps using language to show her frustration.  
• What happens next?  Maybe the mind of the robot has been saved from destruction and she uses this within a new design (thank you Leo).
• Write instructions for building a robot.

Below are a few useful tools to help you with your writing. Please send me some pictures of your writing.