Applied Robotics: The NXT Step
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Learn project-based strategies for integrating robotics into the K-12 curriculum.
Hone your construction and programming skills as you explore the full classroom potential of robotics with Lego® Mindstorms™ NXT.
Designed for hands-on learning, Lego Mindstorms NXT provides project-based opportunities that reach across subject areas and scale vertically for students of all ages.
Learn to develop robotics curriculum activities for interdisciplinary, technology-driven instruction. Build on previous robotics training and discover ways to get more out of robotics by making it part of the classroom STEM curriculum.
Details
- Dates: July 14-18, 2008
- Location: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
- Grade Levels: 4-12
- This workshop is perfect for K-12 teachers with experience using the Lego Mindstorms RCX brick and Robolab or the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick and Lego Mindstorms Education Software.
What You Take Home
- Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kit ($250 value)
- Lego Mindstorms Education Software license ($49 value)
- Lego Mindstorms NXT: The Mayan Adventure book ($24.99 value)
- Mayan Adventure parts pack ($7 value)
- Strategies for integrating robotics into the curriculum
- Experience building and programming with Lego Mindstorms
- Standards-aligned curriculum resource materials loaded on a 1GB USB drive
- 3 continuing education units (CEUs) from Texas Tech University
- 30 hours Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit
Teacher Reviews
"You could use this in music; you could use it in science and social studies. I could do more and more in my classroom and never run out of material with this."
– Lori Felker,
Lubbock-Cooper ISD
"I enjoyed the cross-curricular connections...[Robotics] is not just a science thing."
– Linda Jones,
Garden City ISD
"What really helped me was being able to put [robotics] into a learning process in the classroom. I'm going back with a real sense of pride in myself for doing what I've done."
– Jennifer Sisco,
Sterling City ISD
"None of us came here for us, we came here for our students...[school] will never be the same."
– Ashley Martin,
Lubbock-Cooper ISD
Schedule
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Welcome to Texas Tech. Your hands-on introduction to Lego robotics begins with a comprehensive review of Lego Mindstorms designed to get you up and running with your first project build.
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| Day 2 |
Design Time. Learn the value of the engineering design process for building successful robots and successfully assessing student projects.
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| Day 3 |
Team Huddle. Learn how teamwork and friendly competition can positively impact classroom management and problem solving skills.
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| Day 4 |
Final Assignment. Get ready to show off your new robotic skills in a team challenge designed to test what you've learned this week.
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| Day 5 |
Wrapping Up. It's time to demo your final projects, tell us how you think the week went and learn how you can get support throughout the school year from Texas Tech.
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About the Instructors
Kathy Holberg is a recently retired educator-turned-robot-fanatic from Bastrop, Texas. Last year, Kathy toured the state with Lego Education, training teachers on the new Lego Mindstorms NXT kits. Her blueprint for training features step-by-step, hands-on learning that empowers teachers with classroom-ready curriculum.
In her spare time, Kathy lets her creative side run wild through her graphic design business and whatever clay she can find lying around.
This summer will be Kathy's third year to train teachers with Texas Tech.
Peggy Reimers is a 6th grade robotics teacher for Bastrop Independent School District who loves to teach STEM concepts to students and teachers through building and programming robots.
Peggy has trained K-12 teachers with Lego Education and is the author of Lone Star Legends, a classroom resource and reference tool all about Texas.
This is Peggy's second year to teach robotics with the T-STEM Center.
Terry Gibbons is in the business of educating students, teachers and parents as an instructional technologist for Temple Independent School District. When she isn't teaching workshops, writing technology curriculum or developing classroom projects, she can be found creating content for the Internet as her district's webmaster.
Having arrived in the digital age via an art background, Terry enjoys all kinds of creative endeavors and specializes in graphic design and multimedia publication.
Terry is excited to join the T-STEM Center for her second summer of teaching.
Paula Yezak enjoys developing, implementing and supporting innovative technology programs for Temple Independent School District staff and students. An experienced trainer who specializes in videoconferencing and instructional technology, she motivates hundreds of workshop participants each year with new ideas for teaching and learning with technology in the 21st century.
Paula is an active leader in the distance learning community and co-chairs a Texas Distance Learning Association regional group. However, her greatest joy is her family.
This is Paula's second year to train top robotics teachers at Texas Tech.
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T-STEM Center, Box 43103, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3103
806.742.3451