Lego Robotics

Day One
Students  completed the following projects
1.Photo Booth Pictures
2. Trading Card Creation
3. Chair for Mr. Bear

1. Photo Booth Pictures

• Students learned how to use the program Photo Booth to take different types of pictures
• Saved a picture of themselves

2. Trading Card Creation

• Introduced each other by creating trading cards
• Cards included information about hobbies and their favorite things
• Added pictures to their cards and printed them
• Shared Cards

3. Chair for Mr. Bear

• Read Three Little Bears
• Designed a chair to fit a stuffed animal using only Legos
• Chair had to support animal on all sides
• Created pictures of their chairs

Day 2

Students  completed the following projects
1. Lego WeDo Overview
2. Discussion of Gears, Pulleys and Motors
3. Dancing Birds

1. Lego WeDo Overview

• Learned about the software and hardware of Lego WeDo kit

2. Gears, Pulleys and Motors

• Introduced concept of gears and participated in short building demonstration to see concepts in action

3. Dancing Birds

• Used Lego Kits to build pair of dancing birds
• Programmed the birds' movement
• Added music for birds to dance to

Day 3
Students  completed the following projects
1. Gearing down and up
2. Spinners

1. Gearing up and down

• Hands on activity to learn the concept of gearing up and down

2. Spinners

• Built a spinner out of Legos
• Programmed spinner on the computer
• Task was to see how long spinner would spin for
• Changed program and design in order to spin longer