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Re: Mindstorms in the classroom
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Wed, 1 Aug 2001 02:45:01 GMT
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Ben Erwin wrote:
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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!
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> 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.
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> 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.
Good point.
> 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.
I was reading about something similar to this online the other day.
I'll give it some thought.
> You can also get a lot of workshop-specific ideas from
> http://ldaps.arc.nasa.gov/ (particularly the Workshop and Curriculum sections!)
I'll check it out.
-chris
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