Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Robotic Face
Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Robotic Arm
A challenge that asks students to move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup using a robotic arm they designed. The site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot
A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technology Student
Technology Student: Robo Lab
This site describes how to use the RoboLab software that is used with the Lego Mindstorms system. The Mindstorms product is used to introduce robotics to beginners.
Technology Student
Technology Student: Pic Microcontrollers
This site describes how to program and use PIC controllers, which are often used in the robotics field.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Robotics
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the principles of robotics. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and...
Other
Popular Mechanics: Technology
Popular Mechanics covers the latest in technology. Topics include computers, the Internet, audio, television, and more.
Other
Physorg.com: Technology: Engineering: Robo Copters in Marines' Future
Learn about the possibility of using robotic helicopters, summoned by a soldier's digital handheld, to assist in a combat area.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fence That Farmland!
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.
Government of Canada
Canadian Space Agency: Canadarm
A concise description of the development, function and history of Canada's most famous robotic and technological achievement.
Other
Youth Time Magazine: The Impact of Technology on the Future of Work
An interview with David Timis who studies the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work. He discusses how youth can prepare themselves. Includes a 30-minute video. (Published August 30, 2020)
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Technology Education: Mission to Mars Web Quest
This WebQuest lets you explore Mars through the missions sent there over the years. You can evaluate what you think about the benefits of space exploration.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Robocup Junior Robotics Course
This photo shows a Robocup Junior robotics course designed to challenge students to create a robot capable of completing the course with in a given time limit. The key element to this challenge is in the robots ability to effectively...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Robot Soccer
Two robots can be seen playing a game of robot soccer in an enclosed field. The wheeled robots move around the area using various sensors and algorithms to help perform better than the opponent. Touch sensors are used to avoid the walls...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Aibo Robot Dog
This is a side on image of the popular robot dog known as AIBO (standing for Artificially Intelligent Robot). Built by Sony, AIBO is capable of displaying emotions and can perform a large number of voice activated commands including...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Robot Parts
This photo shows a view looking down on a number of robot parts that combine to make a programmable robot that can perform complex movements. Some of the visible parts include wires, servo motors and metal brackets.
Computer Hope
Computer Hope: What Jobs Are Being Taken Over by Robots and Computers?
A list of jobs that were replaced, and are being replaced or assisted by robots and computers.
Read Works
Read Works: Robo Helpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about new robots that learn to walk like humans. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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.
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...
English for Everyone
Reading Comprehension Assessent: "Robots" [Pdf]
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in elementary grades. Six multiple choice questions and one extended response question are included on the nonfiction reading assessment.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You've Got Triangles!
Students learn about trigonometry, geometry and measurements while participating in a hands-on interaction with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT technology. First they review fundamental geometrical and trigonometric concepts. Then, they estimate the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Haptics: Touch Command
Students experience haptic (the sense of touch) feedback by using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and touch sensors to emulate touch feedback recognition. With four touch sensors connected to LEGO NXTs, they design sensor attachments that...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Simulating Human Vision
Learners are introduced to the Robotics Peripheral Vision Grand Challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they require to answer the question. Their ideas are shared...