LEGO My Robot!
HCC College for Kids - Rising 6th, 7th and 8th Grade - Students work with individual kits in partnered groups.
Let out your mad genius and go robotic. Create everything from vehicles to a partial humanoid robot. Face the challenge of planning your LEGO robot and then building it one piece at a time. Add sensors, motors, and program your vehicle or robot to follow your commands.
Let out your mad genius and go robotic. Create everything from vehicles to a partial humanoid robot. Face the challenge of planning your LEGO robot and then building it one piece at a time. Add sensors, motors, and program your vehicle or robot to follow your commands.
Monday
Objective: Students will use the basic programming functions to program a robot to perform actions.
Morning:
Introduce Mindstorms EV3 LabView program
Introduce EV3 Control Box and commands
Show LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Educator "Robot Educator --> Building Instructions"
Explore the "Hardware"
Get to know each of the sensors
Time to build with the "Building Instructions"
Build Base Unit
Build Medium Motor Driving Base
Build Cuboid
Morning:
Introduce Mindstorms EV3 LabView program
Introduce EV3 Control Box and commands
Show LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Educator "Robot Educator --> Building Instructions"
Explore the "Hardware"
Get to know each of the sensors
Time to build with the "Building Instructions"
Build Base Unit
Build Medium Motor Driving Base
Build Cuboid
Learning the "Basics"
Basic Movements
"Robot Educator" --> Basics
Basic Movements
"Robot Educator" --> Basics
Challenge yourself! Can you pick up, transport and drop the cube from one place to another?
Tuesday
Objective: Students will program a robot to use two or more sensors to interact with its environment.
Focus Question: How can you use sensors to make your robot interact with its environment?
Learning "Basics" (continued)
Focus Question: How can you use sensors to make your robot interact with its environment?
Learning "Basics" (continued)
Learning "Beyond Basics"
Challenge yourself! How do these tools work? How can you use these programming tools with your robot?
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Choose from the following activities below:
Lego Computer-Aided Design
Lego Module Choice
Lego Rube Goldberg Challenge
Lego Computer-Aided Design
Lego Module Choice
Lego Rube Goldberg Challenge
Lego Computer-Aided Design
Objective: Today students will use a computer-aided design program to design a robot, fabricate it and program it applying previously learned skills.
Focus Question: How are you using the programming skills you have learned to create, change and modify a program?
Focus Question: How are you using the programming skills you have learned to create, change and modify a program?
Use Lego Digital Designer to create your own robot or reverse engineer a robot you have already built.
- Introduce basic tools and workspace. - Demonstrate how to filter pieces and manipulate of objects. - Build your own model from your own imagination or reverse engineer a build. Survey a variety of Lego CAD software programs.
Download any of the CAD design software choices. - Which works best for you? |
Lego Module Project Choice
Objective: Today students will apply their skills of programming to create, change and modify a given program.
Focus Question: How are you incorporating learned concepts into a bot you have created?
Focus Question: How are you incorporating learned concepts into a bot you have created?
Rube Goldberg Lego Challenge
Research Rube Goldberg and his crazy, complicated idea machines to perform simple tasks. There are many YOUTUBE videos on different LEGO challenges at BrickFest that others have created.
Search ideas:
Rube Goldberg
Lego Rube Goldberg Machine Ideas
Lego Rube Goldberg Machine Instructions
Challenge: Work with a team and create 2 or more simple robots to move an object from a Point A to a Point B.
Search ideas:
Rube Goldberg
Lego Rube Goldberg Machine Ideas
Lego Rube Goldberg Machine Instructions
Challenge: Work with a team and create 2 or more simple robots to move an object from a Point A to a Point B.
Student creations
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