TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is a Program?
Using a few blindfolds and a simple taped floor maze exercise, young scholars come to understand that computers rely completely upon instructions given in programs and thus programs must be comprehensive and thorough. Then students learn...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Does a Light Sensor Work?
A mini-activity, which uses LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT intelligent bricks and light sensors gives students a chance to investigate how light sensors function in preparation for the associated activity involving the light sensors and taskbots.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Master Driver
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.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: Dsn Uplink Downlink: A Dsn Game
Use big antennas to send information to and receive information from NASA's robotic explorers in the solar system and beyond.
Other
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Table of Combinations (Practice)
Drag the robot parts onto the screen to make all combinations of heads and bodies using the table provided.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Robots Alive! Toddler's First Steps
Investigate the physics involved in balancing.
Scholastic
Scholastic News: Transformers Come to Life
This article describes Kuratas, a 13 foot tall Japanese robot that can be operated by a human pilot or remotely via a 3G touch phone.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sci Girls: Aquabot
Join Jake on an underwater rescue mission by building an underwater robot to help him find his ring. Players will learn about buoyancy while trying to rescue the treasure.
Read Works
Read Works: Almost Human
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the topic of robots. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Piloting Red Rover
Do you have what it takes to drives a robot on Mars?
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Other
Science Museum of Minnesota: Making a Jitterbug [Pdf]
You can make a simple robot using a few simple materials. The directions come from an exhibit on robots at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Real Scientists: Electrical Engineer
Discover how an electrical engineer is using artificial intelligence to make robots "smarter." Consider how robots can be used to explore other planets.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:you Can Make It on Your Own: Robo Wars
Enter a robot design competition. Assemble a motor-powered vehicle that can climb up the steepest ramp angle, using a specified selection of parts, and make improvements in the design as needed.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Which Simple Machines Do I Use the Most?
When you think of a machine, you probably think of computers or robots. Try this experiment to see how simple machines are used everyday around your house.
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!
Curated OER
Cbc Kids: 10 of the Latest Inventions to Make Life a Little Easier
Learn about some of the nifty inventions that add more functionality to common objects. With the Smart toothbrush, your teeth will be clean in no time. The Albert Clock forces you to answer a Math question before it tells you the time....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Control Using Sound
Students gain a deeper understanding of how sound sensors work through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT taskbots and sound sensors.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 9 1 14: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Earth
This video [7:21] shares fascinating video will inform you about how the Earth formed, creating mountains, oceans and more.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Claw
Students learn about gear ratios and power by operating toy mechanical cranes of differing gear ratios. They attempt to pick up objects with various masses to witness how much power must be applied to the system to oppose the force of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Bloomability by Sharon Creech
Bloomability, by Newbery medalist Sharon Creech, tells the coming-of-age tale of Dinnie, a thirteen-year-old girl uprooted from her parents' nomadic lifestyle to spend a year in Switzerland. Dinnie is used to change, since her whole life...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
Use this clever applet to move your robot to safe ordered pairs as it travels to its destination. This all takes place in the first quadrant. Direction are just a click away.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Human Toolmaker
Do you enjoy building airplanes, cars, houses, or robots with Lego blocks? Humans are the only animal species that can create complicated constructions from simple Lego blocks - our Lego building ability is "human-specific," since it is...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Good at Math Game
Play this math game to help the robots and zombies as you practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.