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Sphero Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore, learn and play with the Sphero ball.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Arm

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you design and build a robotic arm that can lift a cup off the table? Check this out and see!
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots

For Students 6th - 8th
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a robot that moves like a living creature using a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms with this challenge. Also, on this challenge find a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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NASA

Nasa: 21st Century Explorer

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is a standards-based program follows that provides content on what astronauts eat, how bodies change in space, and how imagination would help you to become a space explorer. Teacher and student educational resources, glossary, books...
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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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We Are Teachers: 7 Easily Built Stem Centers That Foster Creativity

For Teachers K - 1st
Building STEM centers that foster creativity doesn't have to be complicated. All you need is a smart layout that provides designated areas stocked with a wide variety of everyday materials. Here are seven easy STEM centers to include in...
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Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 2 [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
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Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The resource offers mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills.
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NASA

Nasa Human Research Program: 21st Century Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
This NASA research program allows students to explore space topics using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills. Find twelve themes to investigate through video, song, and animation. Also find links to other NASA projects.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Voyage to the Mystery Moon

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe the night sky and speculate the distance between the Earth and its moon and Saturn and its moon. Explore how scientists have used robots to learn about celestial bodies, and conduct research about one of Saturn's moons.
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Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 2 [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will use Sphero to explore the computer science concepts of variables and conditionals (ifstatements). They will use OrbBasic, which is a text-based programming language for the Sphero. They will write a simple program that...
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Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 3 Mean, Median, & Mode: Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will use Sphero to conduct an experiment. They will identify how long they need Sphero to move at 10% speed to reach and knock over a target object (such as a whiteboard marker). Using this information, they will then calculate...
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Other

Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 4 Percentages: Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will use Sphero to explore percentages using speed and color. The speed experiments are quantitative and the color experiments are qualitative. They will program the Sphero to move at 100% speed for a particular amount of time,...
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Other

Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 3 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will use Sphero to explore the computer science concepts of reading sensors and storing data in variables. They will use OrbBasic, which is a text-based programming language for the Sphero.They will write a simple program that...
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Other

Sprk: Sphero Chariot Stem Challenge [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge, there are...
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Other

Sprk: Sphero Hydro Hypothesis Stem Challenge [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. The Hydro-hypothesis challenge...
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Sprk: Time, Speed, and Distance:teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will use Sphero to show that there is a linear relationship between time, speed, and distance. They will program Sphero to move at a particular speed for a particular amount of time, and then measure how far it has gone.They...
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Other

Sprk: Sphero Bridge Stem Challenge [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge students will...
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Curated OER

Mit Smart Cities Car

For Students 9th - 10th
Review a futuristic, stackable, robotic car.