I highly recommend the exercises in the affordable teacher's guide Educate NXT - http://www.educatenxt.com/ Besides being very easy to understand and implement successfully, the book is very challenge oriented and offers lots of experimentation to your students that will easily translate into the harder, FLL missions.
As far as advanced programming- I've not heard about one as easy to follow as the E.N guide. If you find one, let me know! Ppl/coaches recommended "The Art of Lego Programming" to me last year, & I implemented a couple of those exercises with my students this semester. I find it really hard to bridge the gap between novice and advanced. Intermediate is a tricky place to walk. Either the books assume I know nothing, or they assume I know way more than I do about understanding datawires and their logic.
As far as getting kids interested in robots- just give them a simple challenge- go around this box through gate A to Gate B. It should take a new team, who has just learned how to program the move/motor boxes, about an hour to succeed at this task. If a team gets it sooner, have them shave time off their clock, encourage them to get 100% consistency (harder than they think it will be!) , to try a different route, or to shorter the "gates" using a different colored, but smaller, gate strip on the floor. All the kids I've done this activity with have really loved it- as long as they are true beginners & not returning students.
Regards,
Brandy
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From: Tom Welsh <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 10:35 PM
Subject: [VADCFLL-L] FLL based Curriculum for Summer Camp
Two ideas... two requests:
1. I'm interested in holding summer camp type events for local kids and leveraging our existing/established teams to do community outreach and have hands-on mentor type interactions with kids that may be interested in joining a robotics team this Fall.
2. I'd also like to have more structured programs to teach more advanced FLL concepts to our teams that can be done in a few short sessions.
Requests:
1. Does anyone have any program or curriculum they've developed (or can refer me to) for summer camps or short structured activities that I could use as a basis for our new off-season activities?
2. Does anyone have any ideas for a short/mobile demonstration (1 hour or less) that can be used to effectively get kids interested in learning more about robotics (without setting up the whole board and running through the FLL challenge)? That can be easily done in a Classroom for 25-30 kids. I have access to multiple Mindstorms kits.
Thanks,
Tom Welsh
FLL Coach
703-468-1810 cell
703-564-5623 fax
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