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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Bluetooth?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about electrical connections, how they work, and their pervasiveness in our world. Two specific skills explored are Morse code and the function of Bluetooth. Using bluetooth, they control LEGO robots remotely from Android...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is a Motor? How Does a Rotation Sensor Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about electric motors and rotational sensors. They create a basic program using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT interface to control a motor to move a small robot.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Does a Light Sensor Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Foucault Pendulum

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about the Foucault pendulum, an engineering tool used to demonstrate and measure the Earth's rotation. Student groups then create small experimental versions, each comprised of a pendulum and a video camera mounted on a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Timing a Speedbot!

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students strengthen their communication skills by first learning the meaning of base units and derived units. Then, working in groups, students measure the time for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and calculate the robots' average speeds at...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fence That Farmland!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop and solidify their understanding of the concept of perimeter as they engage in a portion of the civil engineering task of land surveying, using the technology of a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot to automate this task.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Save the Stuffed Animal! Push & Pull

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop an understanding of the concepts of "push" and "pull" as they "save" stuffed animals from danger using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots. After learning more about the concepts through a robot demonstration, students explore...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Building Structures: It's a Slippery Slope

For Students 6th - 8th
All structures require a foundation to keep them from falling down. This is especially important when a structure is built on a hill or on a slope. In this science project, you will build a tower of Lego Duplos on slopes with different...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Robot Soccer Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn how two LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT intelligent bricks can be programmed so that one can remotely control the other. They learn about the components and functionality in the controller and receiver programs
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bonus Points

For Students 9th - 10th
A place to share and see others' ideas for improving a lego robotics project, light guitar.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Challenge: Drum Partner

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to use the sound sensor for the Lego robot with this page.
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Other

Tufts University: Stomp: Nxt Activity Database

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of lesson plans that can be used with the Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. Lesson plans include procedure, student handouts, and programming code.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Lego Block Center (Activity)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson assists in developing teamwork in kindergarten age children and encourages them to take a look at their local community and its institutions.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Efficiency

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure energy outputs and inputs to determine the efficiency of conversions and simple systems. One associated activitiy includes Lego motors and accomplishing work. The other investigates energy for heating water. Students...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Why Do Birds Fly in a v Formation?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, the student will make a wind tunnel to test how the formation of birds in flight affects flight efficiency. Make the bird models out of Legos and have fun with this project. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Research Methods: Modeling in Scientific Research

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanation of how physical and conceptual models can be used during scientific research. Several examples are given ranging from modeling with Legos to computer modeling.
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Other

Desmos: Linear Bundle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of activities where students investigate linear equations. Activities involve an exploration of the lines in a polygraph and the vocabulary needed to describe them accurately; the slope in graphs; lines in different...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Efficiency of an Electromechanical System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Lego motors and generators to raise washers a measured height. The work done by the motor-generator systems is compared with the energy inputs to calculate efficiency.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building Our Bridge to Fun!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify different bridge designs and construction materials used in modern day engineering. They work in construction teams to create paper bridges and spaghetti bridges based on existing bridge designs. Students progressively...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Curiosity Killed the App

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Drawing Designs in Detail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice creating rudimentary detail drawings. They learn how engineers communicate the technical information about their designs using the basic components of detail drawings. They practice creating their own drawings of a...
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Channel 4 Learning

We Are From: Denmark

For Students 6th - 8th
Here you can learn all about the country of Denmark! Content includes a look at Denmark's history, the famous toys called "LEGOs," the life and stories of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish food and sports, and some amazing facts.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Building the Tallest Tower

For Students 3rd - 5th
Skyscrapers are impressive structures. What does it take to design a building so tall? Engineers use strong materials and innovative design to push the limits of gravity. In this experiment you will use LEGO components, rubber balls, and...

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