Curated OER
Domestic Robots
Students examine the role of robots and science in our everyday lives. They discuss films with robots in them, read an online article and answer discussion questions, and in small groups design and illustrate a robot.
Tutorials Point
Artificial Intelligence
You needn't take a stress pill or don a space helmet to take a tutorial in artificial intelligence. In fact, HAL might recommend the course with great enthusiasm and confidence for those seeking an introduction to AI.
Curated OER
Curriculum Links To Numeracy
Youngsters practice looking for the links to numeracy in their classes. This isn't a worksheet but a curriculum guide for an entire unit. Teachers can use any part of the resource to extend or inform their teaching practices related to...
NASA
Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet
It's time to go to Mars. Using the provided cards and mat, groups design a mission to Mars. The cards contain information about the different components of the launch and warn about a few mishaps that might occur along the way.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robot Design Challenges
Through the two lessons and five activities in this unit, students' knowledge of sensors and motors is integrated with programming logic as they perform complex tasks using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and software.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: 4 Lessons From Robots About Being Human
The more that robots ingrain themselves into our everyday lives, the more we're forced to examine ourselves as people. Ken Goldberg shares four very human lessons that he's learned from working with robots. [17:10]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrical Engineering: Home Made Robots
Use these tutorials to start some robotics projects with Spout, Spider, and Bit-zee bots.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "World's Greatest Robot" by w.m. Akers
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Streetcar!" and "World's Greatest Robot" explore the nature of sibling relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Make Robots Smarter
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Robot
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...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Slick Little Robot
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is a Computer Program?
Through four lesson and four activities, students are introduced to the logic behind programming using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robotics Peripheral Vision
This unit is designed for advanced programming classes. It leads students through a study of human vision and computer programming simulation. Students apply their previous knowledge of arrays and looping structures to implement a new...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can Robots Be Creative?
People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity- alongside the question of artificial intelligence- for over 170 years. For instance, could we program machines to create high quality original music? And if we do, is...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Robots (Reading Comprehension Exercise)
A reading comprehension exercise designed for Spanish-speaking ELLs about the present and future use of robots. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise is in English.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors
Students learn about the human body's system components, specifically its sensory systems, nervous system and brain, while comparing them to robot system components, such as sensors and computers. The unit's life sciences-to-engineering...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov
This lesson focuses on Isaac Asimov, science fiction author. It features links to I, Robot, a a collection of nine science fiction short stories and Isaac Asimov's website. It also provides questions and a quiz over "Robbie," the first...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Do Sensors Work?
Through six lesson/activity sets, students learn about the functioning of sensors, both human and robotic
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mission to Mars
The Mission to Mars curricular unit introduces students to Mars-the Red Planet. Students discover why scientists are so interested in studying this mysterious planet. Many interesting facts about Mars are revealed, and the history of...
Technology Student
Technology Student: Robo Lab
This site describes how to use the RoboLab software that is used with the Lego Mindstorms system. The Mindstorms product is used to introduce robotics to beginners.
Technology Student
Technology Student: Pic Microcontrollers
This site describes how to program and use PIC controllers, which are often used in the robotics field.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: 21st Century Medicine: Cybersurgery
Explore remote robotic surgery and describe how a surgeon can operate on a patient from any distance. Create a simple version of a stereoscope to demonstrate the phenomenon of generating three-dimensionality using left and right eye images.