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    Mindstorms in the classroom —Christopher Tracey
    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. The class is a group of 25 students who are getting (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Mindstorms in the classroom —Jerry Kalpin
     (...) Joe Nagata's LEGO MINDSTORMS IDEA BOOK has wonderful projects. Even the simple ones are impressive and fun to play with. It has one drawback: You need 'extra pieces' that are not included in the Mindstorms standard kit. So I had to make a list (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
   
        Re: Mindstorms in the classroom —Dan LaFountain
     (...) Chris, Do you have any of the Activity Packs that go with RoboLab? These are a series of activities that the teachers can use to integrate the materials into their classrooms. The teachers will need to see that there is support materials (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
    
         Re: Mindstorms in the classroom —Christopher Tracey
     (...) Thanks for the advice Dan, the teacher of the class is sending her equipment over to me tomorrow so I can see what she has. From our last conversation, it sounds like she has the activity packs. Thanks for the advice about the actual lessons. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
   
        Re: Mindstorms in the classroom —Ben Erwin
   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 (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
   
        Re: Mindstorms in the classroom —Christopher Tracey
   (...) Good point. (...) I was reading about something similar to this online the other day. I'll give it some thought. (...) I'll check it out. -chris (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 

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