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Inspiration

Whether you’re looking for something to do with your class tomorrow, or you’re planning the next two months, this section provides suggestions for activities to motivate and inspire your students.

Obstacle Course

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Crash Test Dummy

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Chair for Mr Bear

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started

Assistive Technology: Making Lives Easier

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Program Virtual Robots using Gears

  • EV3
  • Emerging technology
  • News

Sturdy Tower

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

The Wave

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Going the Distance

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Build X

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started

Build a Duck

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Figure 8

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Relay Race

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Line Following and Proportional Controls (EV3)

  • EV3
  • Big Ideas
  • Challenge Ideas

Tufts Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP)

  • News
  • Pedagogy

Linkage Warm Ups 2: LEGO Jumpers and Hoppers

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Steepest Incline

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Linkage Warm Ups 1: LEGO Punchers and the 4-Bar Linkage

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Silly Walks

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Write Better Code with Design Patterns in EV3

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Big Ideas

New Cycles of Dr. E’s Challenges Are Here

  • BOOST, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News

Hour of Code With Robotics

  • Cross-Platform, EV3, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News

LEGO for the Blind: Touching the Untouchable

  • Big Ideas
  • Reflections

Using Video to Assess Robotics Students

  • Cross-Platform
  • Big Ideas
  • Pedagogy

Cranes

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Harvey Mk II: Improved Quick EV3 Robot Build

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

Rapidly Prototyping Strider – Smoother, Stronger, Faster

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Snail Car

  • BOOST, Cross-Platform, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Ramp Climber

  • BOOST, Cross-Platform, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Meet the Creator: Akiyuki Kawaguchi

  • Big Ideas

Meet the Creator: Paweł “Sariel” Kmieć

  • Big Ideas

Hurricane Disaster Recovery

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Reflections on Vassilis Chryssanthakopoulos

  • Big Ideas
  • Reflections

DIY Walkers: Klann’s Mechanical Spider

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Reflections

EV3 Sensors

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reference

Meet the Creator: Lee Magpili

  • Big Ideas

Does LEGO BOOST Have a Place in Education?

  • BOOST
  • Review

Using PocketLab with Simple & Powered Machines

  • Machines & Mechanisms
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Meet the Creator: Anton Vanhoucke

  • Big Ideas

Insights From Robodogs Robotics Summer Camp

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Hexapod TrotBot: A classroom-friendly DIY walker

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Why Doesn’t My Robot Drive Straight?

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Featured
  • How To
  • Pedagogy

Meet the Creator: Jason Allemann

  • Big Ideas

Meet the Creator: Arthur Sacek

  • Big Ideas

Light and Dark Scavenger Hunt

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Meet the Creator: Kristal Dubois

  • Big Ideas

Make Way for Ducklings

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Featured

Meet the Creator: Kevin Clague

  • Big Ideas

EV3 TrotBot Version 2: Inspired by a Galloping Horse

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Meet the Creator: Yoshihito Isogawa

  • Big Ideas

Robotics challenges: Workshop handouts

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Meet Pi

  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy

Meet the Creator: Anika Brandsma

  • Big Ideas

A Week in the Life #12: Robot Monsters!

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Getting started with STEM and EV3

  • EV3
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

DIY Walkers: Strider

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

DIY Walkers: TrotBot using EV3

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Cookie Decorating Robot

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

NXT-NXT remote control in LabVIEW

  • LabVIEW, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

The Maze Challenge: Great for all levels and ages

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

DIY Walkers: The TrotBot walking mechanism

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Dr. E’s Challenges: Meet the Leapers

  • EV3, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Crossing the Gap

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

The importance of recording your work

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Rookie EV3 tip: Motor “On” mode

  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

Create apps for NXT with MIT App Inventor

  • NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

A Week in the Life #11: Sumobot to Battlebot

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

A Week in the Life #10: Candy Sorter

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

A LEGO WeDo learning sequence for younger students

  • WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started

Dragster

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

The Sound of Music

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

NXT exercises – One approach

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Astronaut Tools

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Assessing student work in robotics and engineering

  • Cross-Platform
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Poseidon: Underwater exploration with EV3

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

A Week in the Life #9: Walk This Way…

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

A Week in the Life #8: Moving With Linkages

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

A Week in the Life #7: Sensor Fun

  • EV3
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Design, build, and program recycling solutions

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy

A Week in the Life #6: Faster and Steeper

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Robotics Competitions

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reference

A Week In the Life #5: Vroom, Vroom, Up, Up, and Away!

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

GPS accuracy testing with LEGO bricks

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

A Week in the Life #4: Knock It Off!

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Wait Time

  • Cross-Platform
  • Pedagogy

Iteration, collaboration, and documentation

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Energy losses

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Iteration and efficiency

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

How to build and safely use a bridge tester

  • Cross-Platform
  • Pedagogy

TrotBot Walking Machine

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Featured

Liebherr Crawler crane finished!(?)

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

The Incredible Machine

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

What is creativity?

  • Pedagogy

The build begins (and stops and starts)

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

A Week in the Life #3: Wave Goodbye

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Regular, old, LEGO Engineering (and some accidental learning)

  • Cross-Platform
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

EV3 Projectile Launcher

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Featured

Mathematics and LEGO robotics at CIPCE

  • Cross-Platform
  • Big Ideas
  • News

A Week in the Life #2: Starting to Wave

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

A Week in the Life #1: Play Well!

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

A Week in the Life #0: The GBC Debacle

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

From Sequential Programming to State Machines

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

Programming Bluetooth on EV3

  • EV3
  • How To
  • Reflections

Magic Moments

  • EV3
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Building with RCX/NXT lamps and EV3 pieces

  • EV3, NXT, RCX
  • How To
  • Reflections

Darkness or darker?

  • EV3, LabVIEW
  • Big Ideas
  • How To

Greenhouse Challenge

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Boom-gate intersection (EV3 Hackathon 2015)

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Experimental determination of Pi

  • Cross-Platform
  • Big Ideas
  • Challenge Ideas

Inside a Two-Step Simple Line Follower

  • EV3
  • Big Ideas
  • Challenge Ideas

LEGO-based therapy

  • News
  • Pedagogy

Challenges in K-12 engineering education: Lessons from Massachusetts

  • Pedagogy

Santa Claus’ sleigh

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

The Social Skills Network

  • Pedagogy

Learning STEM in the Classroom

  • Pedagogy

Exploring Thresholds

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Big Ideas
  • Challenge Ideas

What is the difference between engineering and technology?

  • Big Ideas

What is technology?

  • Big Ideas

What is engineering?

  • Big Ideas

Naked NXT/EV3 projects

  • EV3, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Learning Dimensions: Another way to assess

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Project rules to foster collaboration, not chaos

  • Pedagogy

Assessment tools for group projects

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Robotics: A fresh approach to learning?

  • Pedagogy

WeDo activities and building projects

  • WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reference

Path planning in LabVIEW

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

“Elementary Robotics” book review

  • Pedagogy

EV3 Arduino Shield

  • EV3, LabVIEW
  • Reflections

Carnival LEGO

  • Cross-Platform, Machines & Mechanisms
  • Challenge Ideas

Shake table

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Virtual Explosion!

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

I no longer go to school to teach, I go to play!

  • Pedagogy

Introducing BrickPi: LEGO bricks with a Raspberry Pi brain

  • NXT
  • Review

The 6 tile challenge

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

The Wave and Beyond

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

The Harvester: A quick EV3 robot build

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

WeDo army tank with wireless remote control

  • WeDo
  • Reflections

Why I like educational robots

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Look Ma, No USB! Untethering the WeDo

  • WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Sharing robots with 300 students

  • Pedagogy

RicEditor tutorial: Create a cannon game

  • LabVIEW
  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

Music box

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Fan-tastic

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, ROBOLAB, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Scratch-ing the LEGO WeDo

  • WeDo
  • Reflections
  • Review

Robo-Sundae: The Experiment

  • Cross-Platform, LabVIEW
  • Challenge Ideas

Strongest shape

  • Cross-Platform, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Light at the beginning of the tunnel

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, ROBOLAB
  • Challenge Ideas

Smart house

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Cross country adventure

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Clap-on clap-off!

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Echo locator

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Dancing robot

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, ROBOLAB
  • Challenge Ideas

Find the hidden letter

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, ROBOLAB
  • Challenge Ideas

The Stubborn Car

  • EV3, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas

Tomb raider

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas

Ultrasonic touch guitar

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Zombie attack

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, ROBOLAB
  • Challenge Ideas

Sound display

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Drive in a square

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas

Tunnel vision

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas

Light theremin

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

Participating in the HALE project (High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza)

  • Big Ideas

Amusement park ride

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, ROBOLAB
  • Challenge Ideas

Rotation sensor challenge

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

How can we build a sturdy wall?

  • Cross-Platform, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started

NXT Bluetooth Text Messenger

  • NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Things that go bump

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas

Tractor pull

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, ROBOLAB
  • Challenge Ideas

Voting booth

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas

Managing robotics equipment in the classroom

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

Managing a project-based robotics classroom

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

NXT-A-Sketch

  • LabVIEW
  • Challenge Ideas
  • How To

Real World Engineering: Using the NXT to break apart blood clots

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Big Ideas
  • Reflections

Survival of the fittest: NXT style

  • NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

NXT science / engineering fair experiments

  • Cross-Platform, LabVIEW, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Motor vs Move – Part I: The Control Algorithm

  • NXT
  • Big Ideas

Tips for using LEGO materials with young children

  • Pedagogy

Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Movement

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Thinking outside the box: A look into LEGO organization and sorting

  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

WeDo activities: The next level

  • WeDo
  • Reflections

Real world engineering: Using the NXT for earthquake simulation

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Big Ideas

Walking robots

  • Cross-Platform
  • Reflections

Sending LEGO MINDSTORMS to near space

  • Big Ideas

How to keep track of all those student projects!

  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

What is LEGO WeDo?

  • WeDo
  • Pedagogy

It’s not rocket science: Keep it simple!

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy

The Robo-Basketballer challenge

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT by year 5/6 students at Mt Ousley PS.

The MINDSTORMS robotics ‘fit’ and your school

  • Big Ideas
Area the Easy Way

Area Measurement: Follow the Path

  • Big Ideas
Program flow

Program structure – simulating publish and subscribe

  • Big Ideas
multiple pendulum streams

Pendulum mathematics

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Big Ideas

General Advice for Getting Started

  • Cross-Platform
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
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