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!
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Bristle Bots
Are you up to the task of making a mini robot? It requires a small motor, a button battery, wires, and a toothbrush.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot
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.
NASA
Nasa: 21st Century Explorer
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Curiosity Killed the App
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...
Other
We Are Teachers: 7 Easily Built Stem Centers That Foster Creativity
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...
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection
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...
Other
Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
The resource offers mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills.
NASA
Nasa Human Research Program: 21st Century Explorer
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Voyage to the Mystery Moon
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.
Other
Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 2 [Pdf]
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...
Other
Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 3 Mean, Median, & Mode: Teacher Guide [Pdf]
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...
Other
Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 4 Percentages: Teacher Guide [Pdf]
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,...
Other
Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 3 [Pdf]
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...
Other
Sprk: Sphero Chariot Stem Challenge [Pdf]
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...
Other
Sprk: Sphero Hydro Hypothesis Stem Challenge [Pdf]
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...
Other
Sprk: Time, Speed, and Distance:teacher Guide [Pdf]
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...
Other
Sprk: Sphero Bridge Stem Challenge [Pdf]
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...