Classroom Activities for STEM/Robotics

Classroom Rules & Expectations

Lab & Tool Safety

Robotics Building Rubric

Robotics Programming Rubric

Engineering Careers

eGFI Magazine http://students.egfi-k12.org/read-the-magazine.htm

Research different types of Engineers and what they do

Engineering Career Webquest

Engineering Careers Research Project

Create a poster, slide show, Prezi, brochure, video, or book about an engineering career

Engineering Design Process

Crash Course for Kids: Engineering

Design Squad

Design_Process_Flow_Chart

Design_Brief (Criteria & Constraints)

Decision matrix

Dimensioning Packet

Sketching (1 or 2 point perspective, orthographic, dimensions, labels)

Orthographic Design Sketches

isometric graph paper

Card stock Furniture Design

Coffee Coaster Design

Outdoor Game

Playground Equipment Design

Gears & Mechanisms (2-3 wks) 

(each team can build all of them, a sign 1 to each team & rotate through, build, trade, reverse engineer them) 

Gears & Mechanisms

Robotics Gears and Mechanisms -1

Robotics Gears and Mechanisms – 2

Gear Systems (simple gear, simple gear w/ idler, compound gear, chain drive, pulley system, bevel gear, worm and wheel, rack and pinion, cam and follower, crank and slider, universal join, differential gear)

Gear Ratio (count the teeth on the gear or sprocket )

Torque V’s Speed (Bigger to smaller increase Speed, Smaller to bigger increase Torque)

Lift Mechanism (rotating join, elevator , & linkage)

Card Stock gears, mechanisms, & automated boxes – https://www.robives.com/

Non programed Activities: 

WindMill with a compound gear system to increase energy production

Pull Toy Design

Claw Machine 

Advance Manufacturing plant design 

trebuchettoss 

 

RAS_5.2_Syringe Robot Arm

Autonomous Programming:

Sensory Test Bed

Square Bot Maze 

 Speed Racer

Assembly Line (conveyor belt, pick & place, quality check, flip, push, etc)

Marble works (

Finals

3D computer modeling Semester Final

Adv. Robotic Semester Final

Robotic/Design & Modeling Semester Review

Robotic Semester Final

Other STEM Activities: 

graph_paper coding 

graph paper

Everfi https://everfi.com/

Coding with (CoderZ, Spheros, Cue, Loco Robo, etc)

DCAC Labs

Whitebox Learning 

Air _Rocket Instruction

Magnetic Train

Dragsters 

VEXRubeGoldbergChallengeWorksheets

Cardboard Automata. pdf

 Cardboard Automota youtube example

 Cardboard-Automata (maker camp)

 Paper Automata free Templates

A STEM Engagement

Reverse Engineering

Research reverse Engineering

Old electronic toys 

Trade builds and reverse engineer them 

  CADD activities

3D modeling Programs  (BlocksCad, OnShape,  Autodesk Inventor, SnapCad, ThinkerCad) 

Autodesk-tutorial

CoordinateSystem

Constraints

Cube 

Car

Pegboard Toy

Playground

Hydraulic Arm

Reverse Engineer a pen and create a 3D computer model of it.