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Sample Work |
Activities/Text |
Keyboarding
Practice correct finger placement and increase speed and accuracy |
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5-10 minutes daily practice to increase keyboarding speed and accuracy
Bests or Worst's Writing Assignment |
Networking
Logging on and saving to home folders, creating organizational folders |
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Create password. Save in specified location on home folder or local computer. Organize folders. Turn in work to correct network folder. Locate documents on network folder.
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Digital imaging
Editing pictures, using a digital camera, using web cams to capture video
Integrating digital photography and video into other projects
Size of graphics and storage |
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Compostion
- Rule of Thirds - includes how to resize the pictures, creating a Dreamweaver document, adding a table and inserting pictures in Dreamweaver (video demonstrations at the link)
Google Earth
- Where are we from? - navigating Google Earth, creating layover images
- Google Earth - variety of uses including graphing, mathematic calculations, geography
- Live images in placemarks
Google SketchUp
Fireworks
Flash Animation
Edit existing digital images
In Robotics - Use digital images in robotics challenge documenting development of robot and program (use in multimedia presentation) |
Multimedia and Presentation
- Basic PowerPoint Skills
- Add video to PowerPoint Inserting original video
- Oral presentation skills - Content, organization, speech, eye contact
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Area Activities
Triangle
Activities
Triangles 2
Create PowerPoint with multiple slides
PowerPoint and Palms
Add video (robotics challenge) to PowerPoint
Oral Presentation
Nonlinear PowerPoint
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Robotics Intro
Following CAD directions to construct a robot
Programming
- Reading and understanding an existing program
- Modifying an existing program
- Creating a simple program to meet required algorithm
- Creating a loop which repeats a specific number of times
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Robotics Educator> Hardware> Robots> Tankbot
Explore changes in robot behavior based upon changes made to an existing program.
Create a program that:
- Goes forward for 2 seconds and turns 90 degrees
- Loops to create a square
Software/Text: Carnegie Mellon University – Robotics Academy, Robolab
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Programming with Conditions and Loops
Sensors
Programming
- Controlling robot actions using a light sensor, or touch sensor
- Using conditional statements in a program
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Light Sensor: Create a program where the robot goes forward until it senses a black line and then stops, Extensions: Stops then backs up and turns, plays a tune, stays inside a box
Use light sensor and reflected light readings to
follow a line.
Touch sensor: Control vehicle turns, forward and back based upon sensor position
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Introduction to Mechanics
- Fractions
- Calculating gear ratios
- How gears affect torque, speed and distance traveled
- Compound gear ratios
- Friction, balance and their application in robotics
- Data analysis using different gear ratios over distance
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Use light sensor to create a rotation sensor.
Carnegie Melon Investigations:
- Gears and Speed
- Create the fastest dragracer
- Sumobot (create the most powerful robot)
Sumobot Resources
Experiment, data collection and analysis of robot with various gear ratios and speed |
Mechanical Design
- Mechanical design
- Increasing mechanical advantage with gears
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Robotics Challenge
Multimedia Presentation
Design a robot and program to solve a specific challenge.
Create a multimedia presentation demonstrating how the challenge was solved. |
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Students choose from a variety of challenges, create a robot to meet the challenge, program the robot and create a multimedia presentation to demonstrate the challenge and how they solved it.
Challenge |
