Blake School - Lower School LEGO Engineering Projects, LEGO projects are integrated into the science and computer curriculum.
RoboLab
Project - Susanna Moodie is an Ontario school participating
in a pilot RoboLab project sponsored by the Ontario Ministry
of Education and Enoreo.
Robotics Club at Vern Patrick School - the Lego Robotics Club is coached by the fourth & fifth grade teachers with the technical assistance from one of the teachers husbands. Students learn to work as part of a team, build and program a Lego robot and solve design challenges.
Official LEGO Site - the official LEGO company Web site.
LEGO dacta - LEGO Educational Division
LEGO MINDSTORMS - (Commercial Product, including NXT)
First LEGO League International - inspire children around the world to work together, use their creativity and engage in real world problems and opportunities.
FIRST
Lego League British Columbia - Their mission is to inspire
children to work together, use their creativity and engage in
real world problems and opportunities.
RoboLab
Project Links - collection of RoboLab links.
Lego Robolab - With the shared goal of motivating students to develop engineering intuition, National Instruments, LEGO Dacta, and Tufts University formed a partnership to create an exciting educational program called ROBOLAB.
CEEO - Center for Engineering Educational Outreach main site.
Educational Robotics - The CMU Robotics Academy develops educational robotics and robotics education programs, cds and videos for elementary, middle and high school teachers and students.
Robotics Curriculum - Use the motivational effects of robotics to excite students about learning.
Lego Mindstorms NXT - The NXT is the brain of a MINDSTORMS® robot. It's an intelligent, computer-controlled LEGO® brick that lets a MINDSTORMS robot come alive and perform different operations.
LEGO Web Sites for More Information
LUGNET - Global community of LEGO enthusiasts, LUGNET™ unites LEGO fans worldwide through discussion groups, web pages, and services. As an independent site by fans, for fans, it is neither owned nor operated by the LEGO Company.
LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton - great collection of LEGO sites including lesson plan ideas.
Everything LEGO - Unofficial Collection of Links
- Nivad's
Lego site, collection of tips, creations, sets, movies and links
all to do with LEGO.
Think Outside the Bots - links to many interesting LEGO Web sites linked to Project Based Learning.
The Center for Engineering Education Outreach - The Center for Engineering Educational Outreach at Tufts University is dedicated to bringing engineering into the K-12 classroom.
The Center for Engineering Education Outreach : Robolab - ROBOLAB is a software tool for programming LEGO's RCX brick as well as many other cool hardware components. Developed by the partnership between Tufts University, Lego Education and National Instruments, ROBOLAB is great tool for exploring robotics, science, image processing, music, and more.
Giant Bug - explanation of how students used the RoboLab product to build a giant bug and learnt how to use LabVIEW to create some new programs to control the bug.
Robots, The Next Generation . . . By Charles Parham and Mary Ann Dassatti - Four exciting robotics packages challenge elementary, middle, and high school students with high-tech problem solving.
Spectrum
- Canada's leading supplier of Math, Science, Technology and
Early Childhood manipulatives.
PITSCO LEGO dacta - Pitsco LEGO Dacta specializes in educational solutions by offering innovative hands-on products and activities including ROBOLAB™, eLAB, the Aquaport Launcher, and the revolutionary Spectrum System K-6 curriculum.
eLAB - LEGO Educational Division, combines LEGO models with hands-on investigations to take the mystery out of the usually abstract concepts of energy.
Using a lamp as an energy source to charge the solar cell to power the model, a Ferris wheel.
BC Ministry of Education Web Site
BC
Ministry of Education (IRP's)
Helpful Books about LEGO Robotics
1. Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms by Mario Ferrari, Giulio Ferrari and Ralph Hempel, 2002, ISBN: 1-928994-67-9
2. Creative Projects With LEGO Mindstorms by Benjamin Erwin, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-70895-7
3. Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms (Technology In Action) by Dave Baum, 1999, ISBN: 1893115097
LEGO Handouts ( Please note that the following handouts require Adobe Acrobat Reader. )
DUPLO handout - collection of ideas for using DUPLO kits in the primary grades.
