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Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
Good article from gettingsmart.com... "How Robotics is Transforming STEM Education in Elementary Schools"
"Julia Dweck’s classroom in Macungie,
PA looks more like a production studio than your typical elementary
school. Students from different grade levels are working together in
small groups, scribbling angles and math formulas on the whiteboard,
writing a storyboard script for a video, cutting out colorful
construction paper figures, and creating code on their iPad for a robot
named Dash.
There are occasional heated debates and shenanigans, but they are all
laser focused on solving challenges in the Wonder League Robotics
Competition. STEM education is top of mind as high-paying jobs in STEM fields are growing with an inadequate pipeline of American students to fill them. In the Every Student Succeeds Act,
President Obama’s goal is to train 100,000 STEM teachers over the next
10 years. Many of the efforts are directed towards middle school and
high school, but research shows
that introducing STEM early plays a key role in cognitive development
and interest in the subjects later on. Much of math and science
instruction in schools is theoretical, and elementary school teachers
are paving the way to look for engaging ways to bring STEM to life in
their classrooms.
Robotics in the classroom
In elementary school, students are
still learning with their eyes and hands – drawing, molding, and
manipulating objects. They are starting the tough transition to learning
by reading, and robots make it possible for them to work through
problems visually and experiment with concepts they are learning. Ms. Dweck’s students have designed
mazes, produced geometric shapes, calculated perimeter, tested
probability, composed music, recorded dialogue, and even retraced the
voyage of the Mayflower with Dash. As Ms. Dweck says, “‘Millennials’
have been raised on technology. They have no fear of it and are eager to
jump right in and create. They are natural innovators who relish and
need this creative platform.” Many of these pioneering teachers who
focus on inquiry-based learning try to integrate robotics into as many
subject areas as possible. Making these curricular connections also
allows them to justify teaching computer science, a subject that is
currently required in only a handful of regions..."
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
Student Activity/Inquiry Focus Recommendation: LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Olympics Building Challenge
From 2016 but STILL a wonderful challenge!
"This August, the world is celebrating a festival of sports with the
Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This June 2nd, the LEGO
MINDSTORMS team and robot experts world over are celebrating the efforts
of Robot Makers at the International ROBOT MAK3R day in Athens, Greece,
the birthplace of the Olympic Games.
We’re challenging the LEGO MINDSTORMS Community to celebrate these
two events by building your own Robo Olympics. How can LEGO MINDSTORMS
be used to represent an Olympic game, an Olympic symbol, custom or
cultural connection, or a new Robotic Olympic sport that’s invented by
you!
Will you make a robotic Archer, BMX Biker, Synchronized Swimmer or
Sumo Wrestler? Will you create a spinning LEGO version of the Olympic
Rings, a flickering touch, or a recreation of an artistic opening
ceremony act? Will you invent a new game that requires the use of
wearable robotics in the sport? Where will your imagination take you and
what will you MAK3?"
SOURCE: https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/gallery/robot-olympics-building-challenge Scroll down the page for Previous Challenges
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Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
"4 Robots That Teach Children Science and Math in Engaging Ways -
Modular, programmable automatons make STEM learning fun"
"Robots can capture a child’s imagination like no other tool by creating a
fun, physical learning process. With robots, kids learn programming via
interactive play by moving a robot in various sequences and using
intuitive, visual programming on a computer screen. The children also
learn STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) by watching and
interacting with robots that demonstrate the practical results of the
day’s lesson. “Kids recognize when they are learning something
themselves—robots give them that,” says Larry Johnson,
CEO of the New Media Consortium, a research organization that
specializes in educational technology. Robots are proving to be valuable
educational tools from the lower grades all the way up to graduate
school. “Building and programming these devices is part of becoming a
creative science and engineering kind of person,” he adds.
Furthermore, by interacting with robots, kids learn a component of
programming known as computational thinking—without even realizing it.
This programming may be visual at first but over time it transitions to
the kind of character-based coding that enables machines to execute more
complex missions.
Educational automatons take many forms—including mini humanoids, boxes on wheels and multirotor flying drones. Scientific American highlights four platforms that demonstrate a robot’s educational prowess...
... robots are designed to engage children by making the abstract concepts
of programming more accessible. These ball-shaped bots—named Bo and
Yana—have distinct educational roles. Bo is made up of four connected
spheres that children program to glide along the floor on three wheels,
avoiding obstacles and delivering small items in the process. Yana is a
single sphere laden with sensors. The robots connect wirelessly with a
variety of Apple iOS and Google Android mobile devices using Bluetooth
4.0. The programming process and subsequent play encourages kids to
engage in computational thinking, for example by instructing the robots
to recognize objects in their environment and react in different ways.
“The goal is to keep interaction open-ended and free-play so kids
discover what they can do with the robot. The robot draws them in while
posing new challenges over time,” says Play-i founder and CEO Vikas
Gupta. Learning activities include hide-and-seek, solving a maze, racing
the robots and scenarios in which children program how their bots will
play. Bo and Yana benefitted from Play-i’s successful Kickstarter
fund-raising campaign and are expected to be available by year’s end..."
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO
Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in
learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids
may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO
Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in
learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids
may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO
Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in
learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids
may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too) This books explains it all!
