Missions with LEGO® Robotics
Bring the data powered magic of databot™ to your LEGO® Robotics program with this 120 page, action-packed collection of activities (digital download). The eight included Mission Guides provide you with everything needed to get started. All missions include detailed, step-by-step support for integrating data collection and analysis into your current program. These mission builds and instructions are designed for the LEGO® Spike Prime educators kit #45678 but can easily be modified for earlier Mindstorms® kits.
Do You Love LEGO® Robotics? Add a Whole New Dimension with databot™!
This 130+ page lab manual provides eight awesome, data-driven missions to challenge your students to solve problems using live sensor data from databot™! All missions include detailed step-by-step support for integrating data collection and analysis into your current LEGO® program. The mission builds and instructions are designed for the LEGO® Spike Prime Educators kit #45678 but can be easily modified for earlier Mindstorms® kits.
Each mission is a career oriented scenario that poses a challenge to be overcome through the use of data. For example, mission #3, Putter Perfection, shown here is a sports science and engineering challenge. Your team has been hired by a professional golfer to help her improve her performance – her putting game is off! Here is an excerpt from the Background information on the mission.
Everything You Need
Add databot™s and this Mission Guide and you will have everything you need to enhance your LEGO® Robotics summer camp, after-school program, CTE or STEM program or your homeschooling efforts.
- Background Materials
- Career Connections
- Real World Examples
- Build Plans
- Coding Instructions: Spike Prime
- databot™ Coding with MicroBlocks®
- Vizeey™ Data Collection and Visualization App
- Custom Vizeey™ App Experiments
- Extension Challenges
- Data Collection Tables and Worksheets
- Step by Step Instructions for Data Analysis
- Standards Alignments: NGSS, ISTE, TEKS, CBSE
For Grades 4 and Up
These missions include complete instructions for creating the builds and integrating the data collection and analysis experience. For younger students conducting the builds and being introduced to collecting and visualizing data will be very useful. For older students there are advanced extensions and challenges in addition to data worksheets and calculations.
Technical Requirements
For fast and easy sensor experiments the only technical requirement is to have a smart device (IOS or Android) such as a tablet or smartphone with Bluetooth to connect to databot™. You download our free app, Vizeey™, connect to databot and you’re up and running! For coding databot™ the MicroBlocks® coding environment is designed to run on Windows/MacOS/Chromebooks in a browser environment. No software installation required!