The Steps

 Look: Concepts

Look: Technical

Resources:

• Free media of the digital palette to mix with any sensor and robotics project.

Evoke

• Study and Create. Study and learn more about Lego Robotics and create your team and solo projects.

See Blackboard for team and solo projects timeline for this chapter.

Assess

• Blackboard (Asynchronous & Synchronous communication systems for formative and summative uses)

  Publish

Other optional Sensor & Robotics Composition items of interest : 

• Image Science - See the available concepts, classroom activities, free software tools and scientists.
• STEM articles at eSchoolNews
• Objectives: setting goals for teaching lessons.
   

• Read: The Use of Computers in Science Education (NSTA)

• Read: Science, Technology and Society -A New Effort (NSTA)

• Lesson Plan Readings: Effective Lesson ` `` Planning that Integrates Computer Technology: What's It Going to Cost Us? ; Current intern model for lesson plans with modification ;  A 6 point lesson plan template ; A lesson plan table template ; An example of a completed lesson plan table.  These are just some models of a lesson plan. Use the model preferred in your teaching setting as set by your principal, school, community college, college or cooperating teacher and university supervisor.

•  Do: Convert $100 U.S. to some other country's currency. Currency Converter. Put down in your notes the currency used and the value you found. This is just one quick example of an online calculator among the thousands at Martindale's site.

• Skim: Using numbers is but one more form of composition, and the web provides a wide range of such options. Number sub-directory of Evoke page of CROP site

• Read: Expanding Computer Sensitivity thru keyboard shortcuts and other senses
• Read: Real World Digital Measurement Activities for Educators: CBL or PDA Based Laboratories with Probes/Sensors.
• Skim: Dora Nelson travelogs, WCU College of Education graduate, doing post-graduate experiments in the Arctic with a wide array sensors and probes, part of Rice University's TEA (Teachers Exploring the Arctic/Antarctic). Dora is a great example of where a teaching career could lead you.
  

• Read:  PDAs & the Implications of the Wireless Portable Classroom

• Skim: the ImagiWorks technology
   

• Read: Art, music and dance

• Read: Health and medicine

• Read: Electronics Composition with Sensors: Real World Science and Authentic Math

• Skim: Integrating Robotics with Math, Science, & Humanities

• Skim: GardenBot

• Skim: Hands on the Land - national network of field classrooms to enhance kindergarten through high school student-learning.

Optional:

• Change the Equation

• Circuit Sense: Engineering is to science and math as writing is to reading tutorial.
  Create a simple circuit and more, using information from the Circuit Sense tutorial above.

• Robotics in the Classroom: A collaborative unit for 5th & 6th grade student in science, math and language arts.

• Flexible Biosensors

• Twine, connects sensors to the Web, available May 2012.

• Use the Pachube tutorial to create a Google Sites page that display data from a sensor or sensors found at Pachube.
• Computer Programming Across the Curriculum tutorial.
• Instructional resources for teaching computer programming

• Explore Martindale's 'The Reference Desk': Calculators On-line Center, listing thousands of online calculator resources. Look for online calculators relevant for your personal and instructional needs.