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Teach Engineering: Timing a Speedbot!

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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 given motor powers.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
measurement, robotics, stem, speed
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Additional Tags
measuring speed, ccss.math.content.6.rp.a.3.b solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed., lego, mindstorms, nxt, teachengineering, timing a speedbot!, robot, velocity and speed
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Resource Details
Grade
4th - 6th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
Audiences
For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
0L
Common Core
6.RP.A.3.b