{"id":9434,"date":"2014-11-06T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:15:21","slug":"robotics-lego-first-day-what-do-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/robotics-lego-first-day-what-do-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics, LEGO, first day… What do I do?!"},"content":{"rendered":"
This lesson is a great way to begin any class that involves LEGO Technic bricks. Young students starting with WeDo or Simple Machines, middle-school students beginning their first robotics class or even upper level grades engaging in higher level physics through the EV3 Science Activity pack can all benefit from this lesson.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the year I’m often not ready to break out the big hardware: sometimes batteries aren’t charged, kits aren’t ready, my roster’s not settled or I’m just not up to the challenge of handing out expensive material on day one. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 This lesson avoids this issue because it uses exactly four<\/strong> pieces per team of students:<\/p>\n