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Lego MindStorms for Schools
Instructional Goal:
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Equal opportunity to access STEM education
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Team work, collaboration, and critical thinking
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Persistence and responsibility
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Learn productively and improve academic performance.
Time Line
August 2013 –
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Communicate with the technology teacher to plan Lego Robotics lessons during teacher’ PLC meeting time.
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Go over lesson plans to decide sequence of teaching and learning. Students will build robots and learn software to plan, test, and modify the sequence and content of instructions to a real robot for performing tasks unassisted.
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Students will learn to use math to problem solve and work collaborate to achieve common goals.
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Monthly, students have a new challenge to compete robots with other groups.
Materials:
6 boxes of "Lego Mindstorms for Schools" kits
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Lego pieces - bricks, beams, and plates, motors, sensors, gears, cams, pulleys, and axles
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The LEGO RCX - Microprocessor device
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The Mindsotrm NXT software
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6 Apple lap top computers.
