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Robots from Junk
Students create balloon and rubber band models of robotic rovers to investigate the concepts of mass, torque, and friction. Through research and planning, students construct a rover test-bed that simulates the Martian environment.
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Curiosity in the Classroom: Calculating Degrees of Freedom of Robotic Arm [Pdf]
A lesson plan to explore the movement of robots. Students will investigate the number of directions a robots arm can move using a simple construction set. An advance lesson plan to calculate the degrees of freedom using the Grubler's...