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LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Robotics

LEGONXT This site is designed to discuss how we help students learn STEM through LEGO robotics both in and out of school. It's summer now. I just ran a weeklong summer camp. Are you involved in any summer robotics activities?

Why Study Robotics?

1. Robotics is an excellent way to introduce the students to integrated STEM areas (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

2. Students participating in robotics learn about STEM careers and experience the same activities as professionals solving real-world problems.

3. Everyone – girls and boys alike – should get a chance to see how much fun it is learning engineering skills this way!

LEGO MINDSTORMS in the Classroom

If you'd like to start LEGO robotics in your classroom, perhaps to teach simple machines or the engineering design process, there are lots of fellow teachers who've tried it. This is a great place to share some of your successes and ask for suggestions in places where things didn't work as well as you wished they would have. Robots are one of the best ways I've encountered to show the importance of learning how to calculate ratios - so math teachers, we've got you covered!

FIRST LEGO League Teams

I, for one, know there is a lot of information I would have loved to have known in advance of my first year as a FIRST LEGO League Girl Scout robotics team coach. If you're thinking about being a coach for the first time - or returning as one, you probably have some questions - or some suggestions - for how to start up a team.

Favorite LEGO Resources

Everyone who's been coaching or teaching has got some Favorite LEGO resources. I like to recommend two books, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Zoo (directions for building and programming NXT robots without rechargeable batteries. so some engineering modifications will have to be made by the students to make up for the slight size difference of bricks where the battery packs stick out) and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure. Please share your favorites!

If you feel like you don't even know enough to ask your first question, check out the attached PowerPoint, "Getting Started with LEGO NXT Robotics".

Please share your tips or ask questions. Let's make this a great place to come to discuss LEGO robotics for kids.

Meri ;-)

P.S.

Have fun today!

S.P.S. (Second P.S.)

*What's a COLLABORATIVE? It's a place where people share. They share their knowledge, their theories, and their questions. It's a place where people come together as colleagues, knowing they're safe to discuss needs and concerns and to receive polite advice and suggestions - and lots of good information!

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  • Check out this NXT Tutorial!
    See the Group Weblinks for a great NXT tutorial that will help you jump right into programming if you're new, and move you up a few levels if you've got the programming basics down.
  • FREE Robotics and other STEM Online Courses from NASA/Georgia Tech
    NASA’s Learning Environments and Research Network and the Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create the ePDN, a new initiative dedicated to preparing K-12 teachers to engage their students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) through the use of NASA-developed learning materials and resources.

    If you are looking for a way to enhance your instructional skills, meet your professional development goals, or find new and exciting resources to use in your learning environments, apply to one of our free courses today!

    Applications are now open for courses starting this fall:

    Observations, Experiments & Two Variable Data -- This course will help teachers implementing the new Common Core high school math standards to brush up on statistics content. Participants will examine two-variable data relationships using scatter plots, time series and two-way tables. Attention will be given to measuring the strength of association, modeling of associations and explaining variability. The target audience is high school mathematics teachers without AP statistics backgrounds.

    Getting Started in Robotics -- During this first course in the Using Robotics to Enhance STEM Learning, participants will learn how to program the LEGO NXT Mindstorms robot. Participants will become familiar with LEGO vocabulary and parts of the LEGO Mindstorms kit as they build structural components of a robot and use math, science and engineering principles to design, build, test and operate their robots.

    Vodcasts -- In this course, participants will learn how to use audio and video editing tools to create new content for vodcasts that can be used in classroom lessons or created by their students. Participants will create vodcasts using NASA materials and resources.

    Apply Here!

    For more information on the ePDN and the resources it offers to K-12 teachers, visit www.nasaepdn.gatech.edu .
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