Geometric Obstacle Course
by Melissa Hall
Students will build an obstacle course for a robot to traverse using geometry concepts. They will build prisms & cylinders and calculate volume and surface area. Once their obstacle course is built, they will use Edison robots to build an EdTank to traverse their course. Students begin by programming the robot using a remote control. They will then progress to programming the robot using a Scratch based programming language.
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7th GradeLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EY5HZQXv9WAasjM7vnvvYuoOY3ONtPEN/edit?u…Subject Area
Technology 5. Computational Thinker Engineering S3: Apply Mathematics to Engineering Mathematics Geometry (G)
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