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ROBOT Science
Use LEGO Robots to teach scientific principles around speed, heat, sound, and color. Students will design and develop robotic prototypes that will use powerful features built into the NXT to collect data and report it back in the form of graphs and tables. Students will use this data to form conclusions that cement their understanding of these important and technological concepts. The culminating engineering activity is a robot bridge inspection project.
This teaching tool features five standards-based science and technology projects designed to teach scientific methodology and engineering process as students use sensors to measure speed, heat, light, and sound. Each lesson includes:
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Topics on the CD include:
- Setup – For the teacher, a step-by-step guide on how to set up and manage robotics in your classroom.
- Tutorial – A step-by-step guided introductory experience to Data Logging with the Temperature Sensor.
- Motion – Investigate the relationship between distance and time using a scatterplot, then use your findings to help a mobile robot to obey the traffic speed limit.
- Heat – Gather data about the effectiveness of heat-shielding materials to make an informed robotics design decision.
- Sound – Analyze patterns in sound data to predict what kinds of music a dancing robot can get down to!
- Light & Color – Propose, test, and revise hypotheses about how light and the Light Sensor work when pointed at different color strips. Use the light-detection capabilities of the sensor to locate leaks in hard-to-reach pipes.
- Bridge Inspection – Visual inspection of bridges is a vital procedure. Can a data-gathering robot help? This is an open-ended engineering design project with lots of support for both teachers and students.
Teacher’s Guide – Includes extensive teacher tools such as notes, lesson plans, presentations, student worksheets, rubrics, evaluation guides, quizzes and answer keys for all topics covered. All lesson concepts and skills are mapped to national standards for mathematics, science and technology to support STEM standards. Prior experience teaching robotics or programming not required or assumed.
Classroom Requirements –One LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Kit and one computer for every group of 2-4 students. Each computer should have access to thiis curriculum and LEGO MIndstorms Education NXT 2.0 software.
Related Products – Robotics Engineering Vol. I - Introduction to Mobile Robotics • Robotics Engineering Vol. II - Guided Research • Science Investigator
Robots Mindstorms NXT Hardware requirements: |
Product Code 4556847 |