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Re: Mindstorms in the classroom
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Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:50:21 GMT
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I wrote a book, Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms, for exactly this
situation. No extra parts beyond the kit are needed for 20-something of the 30
projects. Not to mention it is the only book to talk about ROBOLAB!
In the book I recommend starting out with something from the instruction books,
or a very-directed and simple robot to build from scratch. Then program,
modify the design, re-program, etc. And move on to something from scratch.
I would strongly recommend spending the entire second session (if not some of
the first session as well) on Investigator and data-collection and graphing,
since this will be the most obvious tie to the science and math standards.
One of the projects that I just did at a workshop with the ROBOLAB teachers in
Boston Public Schools is "burgular" - an idea I took from a 1st grade teacher.
You set up the RCX's around the room with light sensors and shut off the
lights. Then someone comes around with a flashlight who is the burgular. By
uploading everybody's light graph on the same graph (different color each RCX)
you then have to collectively as a class figure out where the burgular was
standing and which way the flashlight was pointing (which you can figure out
if you have more than one "row" of RCX's). Its harder than it sounds, and lots
of interesting lessons came out of it.... we did three different trials and
varied several variables, including time-between-points, etc.
You can also get a lot of workshop-specific ideas from
http://ldaps.arc.nasa.gov/ (particularly the Workshop and Curriculum sections!)
In lugnet.robotics.edu, Christopher Tracey writes:
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> Hi all,
> I've been contracted to assist in an education class at a local
> university helping with a Mindstorms project and was wondering if anyone
> had any ideas or tips we could use in this class.
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> The class is a group of 25 students who are getting certified to teach
> ages 3 to 9. The class focuses on using technology to develop
> activities the bring students of varying ability levels together in
> cooperative activities.
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> We have two 3-hour blocks in which to use teach. The first was going to
> be used as an intro/demo session and then the second is scheduled so the
> students can work on their own projects. Does this sould like a good
> schedule?
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> I was going to put together a short powerpoint presentation about the
> Mindstorms system and maybe try to show how it's been used in classrooms
> before. If you have any photos or video that you would like to donate,
> let me know.
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> We have the Robolab software and six RCXs in addition to a ton of
> technic/basic parts.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> -chris
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