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Lesson in Robotics

This resource provides a lesson plan and all the related materials to teach children about the principles of building and programming robots. It relates the components of a robot to the equivalents in humans for example relating human senses to the robots sensors, muscles to motors and brain to computer and program. It can be used with or without the LEGO® Mindstorm EV3 kits. It is intended to be delivered by teachers or STEM Ambassador in an interactive way, using the materials provided as visual aids.

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The copyright of the LEGO instructions used on this webpage are owned by the LEGO Group. This webpage is independent and not authorised or sponsored by the LEGO group.

04 - Robot Possibilities 
This video shows how robots are used in the world around us and examples Lego robotics.

 

05 - Our Robot 
An introduction to the basic components of a robot

 

06 - Robot Senses
A more detailed look at how the components of a robot work together

 

07 - Introduction to programming a Lego EV3 Robot

 

07.1 - Introduction to programming a Lego EV3 Robot in a Scratch like environment



07.1.1 - Introduction to programming a Lego EV3 Robot in a Scratch like environment (Welsh Media version)



07.2 - Programming a Lego EV3 Robot to use the sensors (Scratch like environment)


 

08.1 - Robot Build
This video shows step by step how to build a Lego robot with the Mindstorm EV3 kit

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