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Khan Academy: Bonus Points

For Students 9th - 10th
After completing the electrical engineering project called Ant Bot, improve your machine and share your ideas with others.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bonus Points

For Students 9th - 10th
Take part in some challenges after completing electrical engineering project, ant bot. SHare your ideas, and see how others have improved thier bots.
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Robotc: Thinking About Programming: Programmer & Machine [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students learn about the roles of the programmer and the robot, and how the two need to work together in order to accomplish their goal. Students also understand logic behind the robot's actions, and break a big plan down...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Accelerometer: Centripetal Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work as physicists to understand centripetal acceleration concepts. They also learn about a good robot design and the accelerometer sensor. They also learn about the relationship between centripetal acceleration and centripetal...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: About Accuracy and Approximation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about the concepts of accuracy and approximation as they pertain to robotics, gain insight into experimental accuracy, and learn how and when to estimate values that they measure. Students also explore sources of error...
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Teach Engineering: Arctic Animal Robot

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create four-legged walking robots and measure how far they travel across different types of surfaces. They design and create "shoes" to add to the robots' feet and observe the effect of their modifications on the net distance...
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Teach Engineering: Test a Beam

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students measure different types of small-sized beams and calculate their respective moments of inertia. They compare their calculations to how much the beams bend when loads are placed on them, gaining insight into the ideal geometry...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Boom Construction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student teams design their own booms (bridges) and engage in a friendly competition with other teams to test their designs. Each team strives to design a boom that is light, can hold a certain amount of weight, and is affordable to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get in Gear

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how gears work and how they can be used to adjust a vehicle's power. Specifically, they learn how to build the transmission part of a vehicle by designing gear trains with different gear ratios.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Cold Can You Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore materials engineering by modifying the material properties of water. Specifically, they use salt to lower the freezing point of water and test it by making ice cream. Using either a simple thermometer or a mechatronic...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Materials Properties Make a Difference

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the materials properties-such as acoustical absorptivity, light reflectivity, thermal conductivity, hardness, and water resistancea-of various materials. They use sound, light and temperature sensors to collect data...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let's Take a Slice of Pi

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Working as a team, students discover that the value of pi (3.1415926) is a constant and applies to all different sized circles. The team builds a basic robot and programs it to travel in a circular motion. A marker attached to the robot...
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Teach Engineering: Solving With Seesaws

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a simple seesaw to visualize solving a two- or three-step mathematics equation, while solving a basic structural engineering weight balance problem in the process. They solve two-step equations on a worksheet and attempt to...
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Teach Engineering: Measuring Distance With Sound Waves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about sound waves and use them to measure distances between objects. They explore how engineers incorporate ultrasound waves into medical sonogram devices and ocean sonar equipment. Students learn about properties, sources...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Science of Spring Force

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use data acquisition equipment to learn about force and displacement in regard to simple and complex machines. In the engineering world, materials and systems are tested by applying forces and measuring the resulting...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: On Track Unit Conversion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use three tracks marked on the floor, one in yards, one in feet and one in inches. As they start and stop a robot specific distances on a "runway," they can easily determine the equivalent measurements in other units by looking...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Line Follower Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Student groups are challenged to program robots with light sensors to follow a black line. Learning both the logic and skills behind programming robots for this challenge helps students improve their understanding of how robots work, and...
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Teach Engineering: Robot Sensors and Sound

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Using microphones connected to computers running Audacity software, student teams experiment with machine-generated sounds and their own voices and observe the resulting sound waves on the screen, helping them to understand that sounds...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Master Driver

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn how rotational sensors measure distance, how mathematics can be used for real-world purposes, and about potential sources of error due to gearing when using rotation sensor readings for distance calculations.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the human body's system components, specifically its sensory systems, nervous system and brain, while comparing them to robot system components, such as sensors and computers. The unit's life sciences-to-engineering...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Do Sensors Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Through six lesson/activity sets, students learn about the functioning of sensors, both human and robotic
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Brain Is a Computer

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the similarities between the human brain and its engineering counterpart, the computer. Since students work with computers routinely, this comparison strengthens their understanding of both how the brain works and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Reflecting on Human Reflexes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about human reflexes, how our bodies react to stimuli and how some body reactions and movements are controlled automatically, without thinking consciously about the movement or responses. In the associated activity,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and...

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