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Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: NXT
A 10 week lesson plan for teaching with the LEGO MINDSTORMS System.
This book outlines a 10 week set of lesson plans for teachers wishing to implement robotics in their classroom. A set of robotics challenges are presented, centered around the LEGO NXT MINDSTORMS system. The workbook includes 10 robotic based challenges as well as 3 additional modules with assessment activities covering Robots in Society, Flowcharting and Multimedia Presentations.
Each module includes:
- A real world scenario
- Basic theory of the concepts presented
- Teachers notes outlining the most common issues and how to solve them
- Example Programs in the NXT-G development environment
- Extension activities
- Student worksheets
112 pages, spiral bound
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Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: RCX
A 10 week lesson plan for teaching with the LEGO MINDSTORMS System.
This book outlines a 10 week set of lesson plans for teachers wishing to implement robotics in their classroom. A set of robotics challenges are presented, centered around the LEGO RCX MINDSTORMS system. The workbook includes 10 robotic based challenges as well as 3 additional modules with assessment activities covering Robots in Society, Flowcharting and Multimedia Presentations.
Each module includes:
- A real world scenario
- Basic theory of the concepts presented
- Teachers notes outlining the most common issues and how to solve them
- Example Programs in the RoboLab development environment
- Extension activities
- Student worksheets
124 pages, spiral bound
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Datalogging Activities for the Busy Teacher: NXT
This book provides over 25 different datalogging activities that can be easily implemented in class. It utilises the new NXT-G 2.0 software to quickly and easily configure experiments, and display the results. Each experiment comes with teacher notes, sample graphs and student worksheets.
Experiments are provided for the following sensors:
- Touch Sensor
- Sound Sensor
- Light Sensor
- Distance Sensor
- Rotation Sensor
- Temperature Sensor
Each experiment comes with teacher notes, sample graphs and student worksheets.
Building Instructions
Simple to build robots that are perfect for the classroom. Feel free to use them in your classroom. If you like them, please take a photo and send it to us, we love to see our design in use.
Old Robot designs
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Teaching Ideas and Lesson Plans
A collection of resources from around the world
Tufts Center for Engineering education Outreach
Lesson plans and worksheets for K-12 students focussing on Engineering, Science and Mathematics
http://130.64.87.22/robolabatceeo/K12/cgi-bin/activity_index.cgi
CMU Robotics Academy
Comprehensive collection of lesson plans covering everything from mechanics to programming
http://www-education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/roboticscurriculum/index_to_robotics.htm
MIT STOMP Program (Student / Teacher Outreach and Mentoring Program)
Lesson plans and worksheets for engineering in general
http://stompnetwork.org/mit/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=12&Itemid=10
Redcliffe State High School
An amazing collection of lesson plans aimed at using the LEGO technology to teach the QLD Science KLA.
http://www.smartred.eq.edu.au/Science%20of%20Robotics/Main%20Page.html
Robotics WebQuest - Windaroo State School
http://www.windarooss.qld.edu.au/WebQuests/Robot_Webquest/welcome.htm
The Tech Museum.
A good collection of activities as well as a history of robotics
http://www.thetech.org/robotics/
Wheels and Navigation
http://www.kipr.org/curriculum/wheels_nav.html