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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Build Your Own Robot Arm

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Engineers team up to design and construct an 18-inch-long robotic arm that can successfully pick up a paper cup. Each group is given the exact same set of materials, but it is up to them to decide what to use and how to use it. It is a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is a Robot?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore robots. For this robot lesson, students discuss what they know about robots and what kinds of jobs they have seen robots do. Students research robot books, chart their findings and share with the class. Students also...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)

Robots in Space

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate the history of robotics in space exploration. They design and create a robot using various online resources, develop a list of questions about robots in space, and participate in a video conference with the Johnson...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Robotics

For Teachers K - 5th
students identify and research robots in various roles in society, and create robotic arms and multimedia presentation based on their findings.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

NASA Robots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the world of robotics. In this robotics lesson, students discover what a robot is and work with partners to find out how hard it is to accurately guide robots through simple tasks.
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Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Build Your Own Robot Arm

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Learners explore design, construction, and teamwork as they design and develop robot arm at least 18 inches in length using common materials.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

THE BACKWARD DESIGN PROCESS

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explain the practical uses of robots. They interpret possible careers in robotics, apply the safety guidelines of robots, and develop a perspective of the use of robots. They empathize with the cultural issues of robots in work...
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Curated OER

Space Science: Adventure is Waiting

For Teachers 4th - 6th
These full-color handouts feature two activities. The first is a reading on comets, meteors, and meteoroids. Your space science learners will examine ten phrases and determine which of the three each characterizes. The second activity...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Lego Robotics

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners utilize computer programs to operate a simple robot.  In this technology lesson, students create robots using Lego pieces and simple motors to move them.  Learners measure the speed of the robots by running Robolab software on...
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Robot Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Hold a free-throw shooting challenge in your engineering class! Each team must design a contraption that will fire off a "robot arm" or, more specifically, a catapult, to send a Ping-Pong ball into a basket. Use this as an opportunity to...
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Curated OER

What is a LEGO Mindstorm Robot?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this robots lesson, learners explore the LEGO website and complete a web quest. In groups students work in groups and read excerpts from Robots & Robot, chart jobs robots can perform and report their findings to the class. This...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Build a Robot Arm

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students work in teams to design and build a working robotic arm using everyday items. In this building robots instructional activity students develop an understanding of design processes and the impact that technology has in...
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Curated OER

Robots

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars play the parts of robots and their controllers. In this robot lesson plan, students learn about robots, and use verbal commands to simulate how a robot would command to it's controller.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

NASA Robots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate how robots are used in space. In this space science lesson, students participate in an experiment using a blindfold and complete assigned tasks. The students demonstrate how robots are "thinking" machines.
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Curated OER

Program Your Partner

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the world of robotics. In this robotics lesson, students study the history of robots and work with partners to find out how hard it is to accurately guide robots through simple tasks.
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Curated OER

What is a Robot?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study robots and define what makes something a robot.  In this robot lesson students identify several different robots and the tasks that they do.
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PBS

Robo Arm

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Future engineers create robotic arms like those on rovers built by NASA in the second lesson of the series. They test their devices by attempting to pick up and move cups to a specified location.
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Activity
IMAX

Hubble

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore what it takes to service the Hubble telescope. In the set of three activities, groups investigate several aspects of the Hubble telescope, including robotic arms used during repairs, spacesuits, and extravehicular activity (EVA)...
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Curated OER

Lego Robotics: Measuring Speed

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students build and program a LEGO robotic car as well as measure and graph its speed. They acquire familiarity with principles of construction, motion, design and problem solving. They compare a robot's speed over two different surfaces...
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Curated OER

Design Team Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students work in groups to build a robot. In this robotics lesson, students create an electronic robot and program it to follow directions. They create an obstacle course for the robot to follow and test its performance. 
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Curated OER

Robotic Muscles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate how adding more pulleys affect the pulling power. In this physics lesson, students explain how pulleys work. They compare the work done by robots with and without pulleys.
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Curated OER

The Addiction With Friction

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners compare and contrast where friction occurs in robots and bicycles. In this science lesson, students label the diagram of bicycle and robots. They investigate how friction affects their different parts.
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Activity
Curated OER

Fun Robot Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students complete a variety of activities that have to do with robots. In this robot lesson plan, students pretend to do tasks blindfolded, look up a chat bot online, list TV shows based on robots, and more.
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Lesson Plan
NASA

Rover Races

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Operating a vehicle remotely can be difficult, especially when the vehicle is on another planet. Young engineers get a feel for some of the real-world challenges as they work to program their rovers (blindfolded group members) through an...