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NEXT STEPS WITH LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EDUCATION EV3

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Next Steps with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3

Develop your skills and integrate LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 into your teaching.

Congratulations! You have completed the ﬁrst step in exploring this new teaching tool and now you are ready to take the next steps.

This document outlines what you should do next, and provides six lessons for you to try with your students. Below, you can see an overview of what you will ﬁnd in the next pages.

1 Explore Curriculum Coverage

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2 Use Tutorials to Build

Conﬁdence

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3 Create a Learning Sequence

Using Tutorials

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4 Provide Frequent Feedback

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5 Provide Frequent Feedback

During a Lesson

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6 Integrate Formal Assesment

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7 Integrate Formal Assesment

during a lesson

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8 Use STEM Lessons in Your

Classroom

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9 Explore More Projects

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10 Create a Playing Surface

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11 Customize Your Lessons

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12 Get More Support

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1. Explore Curriculum Coverage

Using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 in your classroom opens up the possibility for a variety of successful learning outcomes. Skills such as teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving are an inherent part of the experience, and students’ natural mastery of digital technologies will help them to rapidly learn the language of programming.

Below is a selected overview of standards that are addressed or partially-addressed when using LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3. This list will grow steadily as you expand the use of EV3 in your classroom.

Practices

• Asking questions

• Developing and using models

• Planning and carrying out investigations

• Analyzing and interpreting data

• Using mathematics and computational thinking

• Constructing explanations and designing solutions

• Engaging in argument from evidence

• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Computational Thinking

• Recognize that software is created to control computer operations

• Understand and use the basic steps in algorithmic problem-solving

• Develop a simple understanding of an algorithm

Computing Practices and Programming

• Use technology resources for problem-solving and self-directed learning

• Construct a program as a set of step-by-step instructions to be acted out

• Implement solutions to problems using a block-based visual programming language

Computers and Computing Devices

• Use standard input and output devices to successfully operate computers and related technologies

• Apply strategies for identifying simple hardware and software problems that may occur during use

• Identify factors that distinguish humans from machines

• Recognize that computers model intelligent behavior (as found in robotics, speech and language recognition, and computer animation)

NGSS CSTA

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Creativity and Innovation

• Demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology

• Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes

• Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues

Communication and Collaboration

• Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others

• Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems

Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision Making

• Use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources

• Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project

• Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions

• Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions

Digital Citizenship

• Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity

• Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning

Technology Operations and Concepts

• Demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations

• Understand and use technology systems

• Select and use applications eﬀectively and productively

• Troubleshoot systems and applications

• Transfer current knowledge to the learning of new technologies

ISTE

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The Nature of Technology

• Develop an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology

• Develop an understanding of the core concepts of technology

Design

• Develop an understanding of the attributes of design

• Develop an understanding of engineering design

• Develop an understanding of the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problemsolving

Abilities for a Technological World

• Develop the ability to apply the design process

• Develop the ability to use and maintain technological products and systems

Practices

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively

• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

• Attend to precision

• Look for and make use of structure

• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

• Model using mathematics

• Use appropriate tools strategically

Expressions and Equations

• Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations

Geometry

• Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume

ITEEA Standards for Technological Literacy

Common Core Mathematics Standards

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Explore Curriculum Coverage

Introduction

Next Generation

Science Standards

= addresses standard

ENERGY

Energy Transfer

Wind Energy

Solar Energy

Energy Eﬃciency

Electric Vehicles

FORCE AND MOTION

Gears

Inclined Plane

Friction

Velocity

Acceleration of Gravity

LIGHT

Light Intensity

HEAT AND TEMPERATURE

Freezing and Thermal Insulation

Heat Transfer

Convection

Practices

1 Asking questions

2 Developing and using models

3 Planning and carrying out investigations

4 Analyzing and interpreting data

Using mathematics, Informational and Computer Technology, and computational thinking

6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions

7 Engaging in argument from evidence

8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Cross-cutting Concepts

1 Patterns

2 Cause and eﬀect: Mechanism and explanation

3 Scale, proportion, and quantity

4 Systems and system models

5 Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation

6 Structure and function

7 Stability and change

Core Ideas: Physical Science

PS1 Structure and Properties of Matter

PS2 Motion and stability: Forces and interactions

PS3 Energy

PS.4 Waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer

Curriculum Grid

Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects

• Precisely follow a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks

• Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-speciﬁc words and phrases as they are used in a speciﬁc scientiﬁc or technical context relevant to texts and topics in grades 6–8

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem eﬃciently

Speaking and Listening Standards

• Engage eﬀectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and clearly expressing their own ideas

Common Core English

For learning grids mapping each of our Curriculum Packs to current curriculum standards, download the pack(s) or visit:

www.legoeducation.com

Language Arts

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2. Use Tutorials to Build Conﬁdence

The tutorials provided in the software will help to build your conﬁdence and your students’ conﬁdence. Take some time to browse through them and identify the ones you might be interested in using.

Here is an overview of the tutorials that are available.

Basics (Driving Base)

Learn how to control the Driving Base and trigger events based on input from the various sensors.

For EV3 Lab Only

Basics (Hardware)

Familiarize yourself with the Intelligent EV3 Brick and its assorted sensors and motors.

Beyond Basics (Driving Base)

Grasp the fundamentals of more complex topics, such as program loops, switches, multiple switches, arrays, and data wires.

Data Logging

Master various Data Logging concepts, such as live and Remote Data Logging, Graph Programming, and Dataset Calculation.

Tools

Learn how to use the various tools that are available to your students, such as the Sound Editor and the Display Image Editor.

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3. Create a Learning Sequence Using Tutorials

A good way to learn about about the functionailty of the EV3 Brick is to explore the Robot Educator tutorials and to combine two or three of them to create a learning sequence.

When designing your own learning sequences, remember to allow time for:

• Building the robot, if it is not already built

• Programming the robot

• Tinkering

Example of a Learning Sequence Using Tutorials

Explore the functionality of the Color Sensor by making diﬀerent things happen based on the color detected by the sensor:

• Color Sensor Color > Multiple Switch

Examples of other Learning Sequences for EV3 Lab Only

Explore the functionality of the Color Sensor, and practice logging ambient light values:

• Color Sensor Light > Remote Data Logging

Explore math-related concepts:

• Stop at Object > Range

• Variables > Arrays

Straight Move

Tank Move

Stop at Object

The learning sequence used in the

LEGO

MINDSTORMS Education

EV3 “getting started” experience.

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