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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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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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00 - Lesson in robotics overview 111.08 KB
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02 - Lesson Plan 444.8 KB