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Lego Robotics

8/29/2012

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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






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