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Simple Maze Game

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Avoid the mines and win the game! Young scholars direct a robot through a minefield by plotting points. Their goal is to reach the target in as few moves as possible.
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The Frontiers Decade: CyberDecade

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore robotics. They design and draw a robot that will search for deposits of underground minerals.
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Dream Machines

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the modern applications of robots and create one of the five parts of a robot that could solve a hypothetical public works problem. They study about the use of robots for laying fiber-optics cable in New Mexico by...
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Plane Mirrors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the law of reflection by using mirrors. In this physics lesson plan, students operate a robot using IR controllers. They explain the path of light as it reflects through a surface.
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Probes to Other Planets

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use a list of robot components and common household items to design and construct a robot spacecraft model suitable for exploring the Saturn System. They present the robots to the class.
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Sensor Challenge

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students develop a pseudo code flowchart for their robotic program. In this physics lesson, students construct a robot that can navigate through certain obstacles. They test their robot and present them to class.
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Square Machine

For Teachers K
Students draw robots using square shapes.
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Automated Vehicle Programming Design

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design a program to make an automated vehicle perform a specific task. In this robotics lesson, students play the role of scientists competing to win a factory's contract. They present their algorithm to class.
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It's Alive! Or is it?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students differentiate the characteristics of living and nonliving things. In this life science lesson, students compare and contrast robots and living things. Given an object, they decide whether it's is living or not and defend their...
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Best Practices of Technology Intergration

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compete in a Lego Robot Competition. In this after school lesson, students design and compete in the Lego Robot Competition. This lesson includes time-lines and guidelines for an after-school club.
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Do They Rhyme?

For Teachers K
Students pick out words that rhyme. For this lesson on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.
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Robot Gears

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers build simple gear trains and record data to discover how to compute gear ratios. They investigate the definition of torque and how torque can be increased or decreased in a gear train.
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Centuries of Economic Growth: From Feathers to Robotics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read scenarios about the production of Bibles over five historical time periods. Working in small groups, students create skits and develop a retrieval chart that is used to analyze factors that impact economic growth.
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Building a Water Clock

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research water clocks online, investigate how water clocks work, and construct water clock that will keep time accurately for at least two hours without human intervention.
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Artificial Limbs & Robotics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students design and build a mechanism to retrieve wrapped candy through a small hole (e.g. through the top of a water cooler jug). They gain an appreciation for the challenges faced by people who have lost the use of their limbs. They ...
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TECH:Robotic Hazardous Materials Squad

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a remote controlled robot to simulate a hazardous materials removal exercise. They are introduced to the following career: Robotics, Hazardous Materials Specialist, Robotic Technician, Environmental Scientist, Manufacturing...
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"I, Robot"

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders define vocabulary and discuss the characters in a movie.  In this solar station lesson plan students explore robots on the Internet. 
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Spelling Robot

For Students 1st
In this spelling worksheet, students cut out the parts and make a spelling robot. They write the words on the lines that are shown on the leg portions of the robot and glue all of the other parts together.
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Learning Roomba

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students engage in one of 5 different modules that introduces them to robotics.  In this investigative instructional activity students study robotics, its configurations and how to control its movement. 
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The Ridge Exploring Robot

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study about an autonomous underwater vehicle and explain the strategies that it uses to locate and map hydrothermal vents. In this marine navigation lesson plan students design a program for an AUV survey.
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Create With Cozmo - Digital Workbook

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Shared Resource Take your students on a creative coding journey with their very own robot buddy, Cozmo. (Cozmo robot not included.) Use code to teach new concepts to make and customize your own games and projects:Start off on Coder Level 1 and tackle...
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Robots! Robots! Robots!

For Students Pre-K - K
In this compare and contrast worksheet, learners study the four different sets of robots. Students circle the robot that is different from the other three.
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Using Lego Robotics in a Science Fair Project

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils construct a controlled experiment using Lego vehicles. They create a standard vehicle, test the vehicle on different surfaces, and calculate the average results.
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"I, Robot"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read stories from a robot journal.  In this robot lesson students complete definitions and several activities, including a short essay. 

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