Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

A challenge that asks students to move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup using a robotic arm they designed. The site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.

A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

Using the LEGO NXT robotics kit, students construct and program robots to illustrate and explore the Fibonacci sequence. Within teams, students are assigned roles: group leader, chassis builder, arm builder, chief programmer, and...

Students learn how two LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT intelligent bricks can be programmed so that one can remotely control the other. They learn about the components and functionality in the controller and receiver programs

Retail robots are promising to free up workers from routine tasks, presumably giving humans more time for customer interaction. But that's only the beginning of what robots will do. The real benefit of retail robots will be the...

There are three major rules that we want our robots to follow: do not harm a human, obey us, and protect us. The prerequisite for these rules? We need to make robots smarter. Ayanna Howard explains how robots can become smarter (hint: it...

This is a 7-problem quiz/practice counting robot combinations with two parts.

Robots are now being used to fight climate change and protect our green environments. They help to fight forest fires, manage our waste, restore the oceans, support renewable energy initiatives, and make agriculture more-environmentally...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about a high school girl who has spent months building a robot at the expense of losing time with her friends. She finally takes the robot to school where he tears a locker door...

Learn how an all girls high school robotics team designed then built a robot to compete in competitions.

This is a 7-problem quiz/practice counting robot combinations with multiple parts.

In 1920, Czech writer Karel Capek wrote a play about human-like machines, thereby inventing the term robot from the Central European word for forced labor. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel explain how the science fiction staple earned its...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about brothers who work together to plan the perfect robot. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

What do tin foil, surface area, and rectangular prisms make? A tin foil robot of course! This lesson includes practice problems about surface area, worksheets, a video explanation, and a reflection sheet.

Scientists at Harvard University recently invented a robot shaped like the letter "X" that can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. While this robot is currently limited to operating within a laboratory, it could...

Explore the design and functions of different kinds of robots and match three robots to the dangerous duties they would be designed to perform.

Construct an underwater robot to explore below the surface. Change to the robot to make it work to meet your expectations.

Our little robot friend is back in this fun game to help teach basic programming skills. Help guide the robot through each level by selecting a command and placing it on the map in the proper order. You'll have to use your problem...

Robot Islands is a fun game to help teach basic programming skills. Help guide the robot through each level by selecting a command and placing it on the map in the proper order. You'll have to use your problem solving skills in order to...

In this lesson plan students watch a video of robot races then answer questions in regards to the given graph.

This lesson plan allows students to explore proportional relationships using information from robot races.

Review a futuristic, stackable, robotic car.