EV3 101 Daily Lessons Plans
Video Introducing the Legos EV3 Mindstorms Robotics
A visual of all the parts that the students will be working with
Instructional Videos instructing the following:
1. Connecting your EV3 to the computer
2. Typing in move commands to move your robot
3. Sending your commands to your robot
4. Saving your EV3 program to your computer
A video that will assists the students in constructing their first Robot. This consists of a five part video series.
*****All students must complete this construction of the Robot before proceeding to step six
This free tutorial playlist uses a Lego MindStorms EV3 to try to solve the problem of what to do if an Alien Ambassador from a far-distant planet arrives on Earth! We would probably be nervous since we would not know if the Alien was peaceful or warlike, so we would send a Robot to talk to it. This pretend scenario has been used successfully for several years with Primary (and playful Adult!) students and Lego NXT sets, and is translated here for use with the Lego MindStorms EV3 Robots. We use it as the first "big" EV3 Tutorial which introduces forwards and backwards straight-line movement, how to change robotic faces, and how to add speech to our EV3 robots. The videos use closed captions, which are useful in a noisy classroom where there is difficulty in hearing the video commentary, and for students who have hearing limitations. If there are students in the class with limited English, the closed captions can be translated into 50+ languages using Google Translate, which Google has built in to its closed caption videos. Have fun! This free tutorial playlist uses a Lego MindStorms EV3 to try to solve the problem of what to do if an Alien Ambassador from a far-distant planet arrives on Earth! We would probably be nervous since we would not know if the Alien was peaceful or warlike, so we would send a Robot to talk to it. This pretend scenario has been used successfully for several years with Primary (and playful Adult!) students and Lego NXT sets, and is translated here for use with the Lego MindStorms EV3 Robots. We use it as the first "big" EV3 Tutorial which introduces forwards and backwards straight-line movement, how to change robotic faces, and how to add speech to our EV3 robots. The videos use closed captions, which are useful in a noisy classroom where there is difficulty in hearing the video commentary, and for students who have hearing limitations. If there are students in the class with limited English, the closed captions can be translated into 50+ languages using Google Translate, which Google has built in to its closed caption videos. Have fun!
Can we teach a Lego EV3 MindStorms Robot to Clean a Floor? Because this is a Challenge for students, these playlist videos do not include a complete solution. However, examples of Robot Floor Cleaning Robots produced by previous students are shown in Videos B6.2 to B6.5. Even though these previous examples use Robots built with Lego's now-obsolete NXT MindStorms sets, the ideas can provide inspiration to an approach you can use with your EV3 Robots. You could copy one of the student's approaches, or invent one of your own. At the end of the playlist, we include some brief hints, but, as we said, this is a Challenge and a complete solution is up to you... The videos in this playlist are: B6.1 This is the overview of the EV3 Floor Cleaner Challenge. It introduces the Challenge and shows a sample set-up for a "floor" to be cleaned, B6.2 This video shows two examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at Margate School. B6.3 This video shows five examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at Huonville School. B6.4 This video shows two examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at a TAG workshop. B6.5 This video shows two examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at Mount Nelson School. B6.6 This video shows examples of Floor Cleaner runs with EV3 Robots, and provides some hints that you could use to start this Challenge. The videos in this playlist do not have my Closed Caption. We hope to add Captions at some stage, but right now I unfortunately can't allocate sufficient time.Can we teach a Lego EV3 MindStorms Robot to Clean a Floor? Because this is a Challenge for students, these playlist videos do not include a complete solution. However, examples of Robot Floor Cleaning Robots produced by previous students are shown in Videos B6.2 to B6.5. Even though these previous examples use Robots built with Lego's now-obsolete NXT MindStorms sets, the ideas can provide inspiration to an approach you can use with your EV3 Robots. You could copy one of the student's approaches, or invent one of your own. At the end of the playlist, we include some brief hints, but, as we said, this is a Challenge and a complete solution is up to you... The videos in this playlist are: B6.1 This is the overview of the EV3 Floor Cleaner Challenge. It introduces the Challenge and shows a sample set-up for a "floor" to be cleaned, B6.2 This video shows two examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at Margate School. B6.3 This video shows five examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at Huonville School. B6.4 This video shows two examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at a TAG workshop. B6.5 This video shows two examples of Floor Cleaner runs made by students at Mount Nelson School. B6.6 This video shows examples of Floor Cleaner runs with EV3 Robots, and provides some hints that you could use to start this Challenge. The videos in this playlist do not have my Closed Caption. We hope to add Captions at some stage, but right now I unfortunately can't allocate sufficient time.
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Scratch 101 Daily Lessons Plans
This Video introduces the EV3 editor that allows the student to create the EV3 programming of how to move the EV3 Robot.
Explains how to open the software program, create a new program and project and save the project to your hard drive
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Online Lesson Plans
Scratch Lesson Plans Set 2
This video gives an explanation what Lego Mindstorms Robotics are, presents the parts that will be used to construct your Robot, and a time lapsed video building the first simple robot.
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Introduction To Legos EVe3Mindstorms
Robotics
Beginners Course 101
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You can change your Lego MindStorms EV3 Botticelli Robot into a second Robot that has three wheels. While Botticelli works fine on most smooth surfaces, the back beams can get stuck when Botticelli tries to go backwards on one type of ridged carpet we have encountered. The extra wheel takes more effort to build, but it fixes that problem. Note that there are two versions of the second tutorial in this Playlist. Version B4.2 is only for students who are using the Lego EV3 Education kit. Version B4.3 is only for students who are using the Lego EV3 Home kit. These two versions are necessary because of the different components that Lego have supplied with each version of their EV3 Kit. The tutorials in this playlist are: B4.1 This video tutorial demonstrates how to start the conversion, by showing how to change the positions of the EV3 motors. B4.2 This video tutorial is for users of the EV3 Education Kit only. It shows how to add the third "wheel" (actually a ball). B4.3 This video tutorial is for users of the EV3 Home Kit only. It shows how to add the third wheels. These tutorials do not have Closed Captions. I hope to add these when I have time. Have fun with your Robots!
The Moon is a mysterious heavenly body. Did you know that the Moon keeps one side facing the Earth all the time - and so for all the thousands and thousands of years that people on Earth have been looking at the Moon, we have only seen half of the Moon's surface? It was in 7th October 1959 that the Soviet space probe Luna 3 (see below) sent back pictures of that previously mysterious and unknown side of the Moon - an incredibly exciting moment! It is in memory of that remarkable achievement that our Challenge is to teach our Lego MindStorms EV3 Robot to leave a pretend Earth, circle around an imaginary Moon, and using only instructions stored within the Robot to attempt to successfully return to our pretend Earth. 5.1 Gives a video overview of the Challenge. 5.2 Suggests how to get beyond the Moon. 5.3 Suggests how to instruct your Robot to travel in a gentle curve. 5.4 Suggests a way to get back to a safe landing on Earth. These videos include brief closed captions that may be translated into about 53 languages using the inbuilt Google translator. Have fun!
