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Robot Design Lab - Grades 4 thru 8 |
Program Objectives:
- Students will work in teams using the design process to build robots that perform specific tasks.
- They will experiment with constructing axel, gear, and motor mechanisms.
- Students will explore weight, balance, and mobility in their robot designs.
- They will have the freedom of creativity in their robot design.
Suggested Classroom Activities: 1) Ask your students why we use robots and have them come up with ideas for jobs where robots could be used to replace one or more humans. For example: - To perform repetitive tasks, such as certain factory work.
- To work in dangerous areas, such as toxic clean up sites.
- To explore uninhabitable places, such as space or under water.
- To perform work that is humanly impossible, such moving heavy weights.
- To perform tasks that require fine precision, such as surgery.
2) Have students invent and draw a robot. What does it do? In what environment will it work? Why would a robot be needed to do this work?
3) What careers might involve working with, designing or building robots?
4) Watch videos of robots in action. View the following links or look for others.
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