Lego Robot Vehicle Lesson Plans for Secondary Education: A Recruitment Tool

Details

• Creators:
  Barker, Nina
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida. Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Robotics
  • Students
  • Education
  • Motivation
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Recruiting
  • Traffic congestion
  • Transportation engineers
  • Computer programming
  • Traffic congestion
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  2011-092142
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Florida. Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Education ; NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION
• Abstract:
  Robotics is a great way to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics. It is also highly effective in stimulation development of teamwork and self-confidence. This project provides transportation-related lesson plans for middle school-aged students utilizing LEGO Minsdstorms NXT robots to foster interest in the transportation engineering profession as a career choice. A series of lesson plans for fifth throught eigth graders was developed. The first lesson plan is general introduction to engineering and transprotation through the used of videos, slides and interactive discussion. The next four lessons are a hands-on guide exposing students to basic computer programming, mathematics as it relates to the tasks, and the robots as tools. The lesson plans theme focuses on a significant area of the future of transportation-intelligent vehicles
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25548/dot_25548_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 25.17 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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