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Robotics Online
Robotics Association site containing links to technical papers, educational resources, news, forums and other information.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Robotics
In this curriculum unit, educators can find lectures and project materials related to electronics including the LEGO robotics.
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University: Robotics Institute
Robotics research at Carnegie Mellon University includes links to projects, research, and events.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is a Robot?
This lesson plan introduces students to the major characteristics of robots. The associated activity uses the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system as an example. Before studying robots in more detail, it is important for students to consider the...
Starfall
Starfall: Robot and Mr. Mole (Long O Listening Practice)
Learn English words with the long O sound by listening to this read-aloud story about a robot. English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing words with long o's. Great graphics, unlimited...
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Robots and Block Diagrams
A robot can execute very primitive commands, but it needs instructions to combine them. In this lesson, look at two types of instructions: commands and conditionals. Learners split into pairs and one becomes a robot while the other one...
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Robot Bugs
Build a robot and watch how it moves. Activity is designed to help students learn how electrical circuits and switches control how things move.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Robotic Face
Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Robotic Arm
A challenge that asks students to move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup using a robotic arm they designed. The site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot
A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Robix Corporation/educational Robot Kits
Robix sells robotics kits to the education industry. Experience robotics through the use of VRML as a plug-in to your browser. Links to download the plug-in are on the site.
NASA
Nasa: Lunar Nautics: Design Mission to Live & Work on Moon Educator Guide
This guide provides students the opportunity to simulate working at an aerospace company. Activities include designing a lunar lander and robot, building spacecraft, and much more.
Other
Middle Tennessee State University: Karel the Robot
This resource provides project and assignment ideas for the Karel programming environment.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Technology Education: Mission to Mars Web Quest
This WebQuest lets you explore Mars through the missions sent there over the years. You can evaluate what you think about the benefits of space exploration.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Arm
Can you design and build a robotic arm that can lift a cup off the table? Check this out and see!
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot
Make a robot that moves like a living creature using a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms with this challenge. Also, on this challenge find a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
NASA
Nasa: 21st Century Explorer
This is a standards-based program follows that provides content on what astronauts eat, how bodies change in space, and how imagination would help you to become a space explorer. Teacher and student educational resources, glossary, books...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Curiosity Killed the App
Students gain experience with the software/system design process, closely related to the engineering design process, to solve a problem. First, they learn about the Mars Curiosity rover and its mission, including the difficulties that...
Other
We Are Teachers: 7 Easily Built Stem Centers That Foster Creativity
Building STEM centers that foster creativity doesn't have to be complicated. All you need is a smart layout that provides designated areas stocked with a wide variety of everyday materials. Here are seven easy STEM centers to include in...
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Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 2 [Pdf]
Students will use the Sphero robotic ball to draw polygons and learn the relationship between heading angles and the number of sides in a polygon where all sides are equal. They will also learn how to setthe colors of the lights inside...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
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Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
The resource offers mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills.