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Title:
| Science: Robotics |
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Description:
| These sites explain the basic concepts of robotics and discuss the history and the future of this industry. Play interactive games, manipulate and build your own online robot. Includes hands-on activity ideas and a link to an eThemes Resource on inventions. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Robotics
This is a comprehensive multimedia site. Learn about the history and ethics of robots. Includes video and audio files. Click on "At Your Command" to control a robot on the earth or moon. Also includes artwork relating to robots.
Experiments in Robotic Software
This site has information about the development of robots, plus vocabulary words and suggested readings. There are many photographs of robots and links to NASA sites on robots.
Robotics
Read about different types of robots at The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics.
ThinkQuest: Robotics
Learn the basic parts of a robot and discover what "machine learning," means.
ThinkQuest
This site has a lot of information about robots. Click on "RoboSim - Arm Simulator" to build your own online robot. NOTE: Avoid the chat room, which might not be moderated.
ThinkQuest
This student-created site explains the basic concepts of robotics.
ThinkQuest: Robotics- The Way of the Future
This student-created site is dedicated to the evolution of robots and includes timelines. Learn about the theory of robotics and important people who contributed to the field. There is also information about robots and the media.
Lesson Plans: Robots
This site includes a series of lesson plans about robots.
BBC: Robot World
Play some interactive technogames and view pictures and videos of various robots. You may even build your own robot. NOTE: The "Communicate" link at the top leads to message boards.
How Robots Work
This site explains how robots work. NOTE: The site had pop-up ads.
Robotics Education Project
Check out cool robot projects, learn about the different types of robots and take robot challenges.
Fact Monster: Robotics
This site explains the concept of robotics. This is from an encyclopedia entry.
eThemes Resource: Inventions
This resource provides information on various inventions and inventors. Learn about scientific and just for fun inventions. Play games and answer trivia questions about inventions and patents.
NOVA Online: Bomb Squad
Read about robots being used to defuse bombs. Includes videos you can watch.
JPL Robotics
Explore these links to find out more about the different robots being used by NASA.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.8, 4.6, 1, 3, 6, 1, 2, 6, 8, 2
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