I’ve been searching for a curriculum and some ideas for teaching robotics. I’m looking to build a course that is half a year of robotics and half a year astronomy.
I haven’t found very much so far. Some stuff at Carnegie Mellon and constant links to Lego products, but not much else. I’m looking to make this an elective the following year and I need to start figuring out how I’m going to make this happen.
Some of you must either teach this course or have someone in your school who teaches this course.
I need some help please.
I taught a class this year where some students used arduino’s to build robotic devices (mostly rovers- one that was a line follower and another that used infrared to drive autonomously….to some extent
The arduino is easy to use, has a great programming environment that helps kids learn c, can be easily interfaced with sensors, motor/servo controllers, and has a nice price point.
Check out http://www.arduino.cc or http://www.sparkfun.com
There’s not much on curriculum at either of those sites, but the arduino site has lots of sample code.
Jeff
Comment by Jeff Hellman — June 2, 2009 @ 10:53 pm |
You might also want to look at the Parallax website. Their robotics with tht BOE-BOT is usable in the classroom and was designed to be a robotics learning course. You can download the text to see what the curriculum looks like.
The BOE-Bot is listed at:
http://www.parallax.com/Store/Robots/RollingRobots/tabid/128/CategoryID/3/List/0/SortField/0/Level/a/ProductID/296/Default.aspx
Look near the bottom of the description for resources that can be downloaded.
Comment by Richard Brockmeier — June 8, 2009 @ 11:31 am |
hello, i am into education and looking for starting to teach robotics in my school.
also forming/composing a draft syllabus.for the same.
would really love to know who all can help me in finalising the same.
any inputs shall be of great help.
thanks a million
arun
Comment by Arun Gupta — June 16, 2009 @ 6:47 am |
we have some kids using the Pitsco robotics lessons and materials.
Comment by Daniel vincer — June 22, 2009 @ 9:49 am |
Update – I contacted my Lego rep, he sent me a sample and all the software and curriculum I needed. My son and I played with the NXT for a little while. It’s really pretty cool, we’re going on vacation this week and I’m going to take it along to program and play with during down time. I took it into my principal over the summer and showed her. She took one look at the simple program I had in there and said, “We are so getting this!” Yes, it helps that she’s a nerd too. The challenge for our school is the computer for every two kids. We’ll figure it out, but the whole curriculum and software package is extremely well done. I can’t wait to try it out with my classes.
Comment by Scott — August 20, 2009 @ 9:06 pm |
I am a high school robotics teacher in Austin, Texas. We use VEX (http://www.vexrobotics.com/) kits and Lego MINDSTORMS in our robotics class. Both of these kits can be scaled to use in grades 5th – College. You can get additional software for the LEGO besides the NXT G but the NXT G software is very easy to use and the kids have a blast with it. Carnegie Mellon offers several different curriculum guides to use with Mindstorms as well as VEX. Another kit it the PITSCO Textrix Robotics Kit. It can be used in conjuction with the LEGO MINDSTORMS.
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Comment by Norman — August 28, 2009 @ 4:08 pm |