Curriculum
Below you will find curriculum resources sent to us by members of the Botball community. We are sure that these lesson plans will come in handy for many of our Botball team leaders and we hope to add more lesson plans and other curriculum ideas to this section in the months and years to come.
If you have implemented standards-based curriculum and activities using Botball equipment from year’s past into your classroom that you would like to share with the rest of the Botball community, please contact Marci Corey.
NASA Robotics Alliance Web Course
This web course provides an introduction to key robotics and engineering concepts and introduces autonomous mobile robotic systems using the XBC . Topics explored include mechanical design, software development using Interactive C, sensing the world through analog and digital sensors, robotic vision, and odometry.
Video and course materials from the web course are available for free, online.
Integrating Botball
Micheal E. Montie has provided us with some of the materials that were used to integrate the Botball Program with his new Engineering Systems course at Marshall Academy. These documents provide a higher level overview of how the Botball Program as a whole fits into the course.
- ES-Botball-GradeStructure.pdf — the overall grading structure
- ES-Botball-Reqts1.pdf — initial planning worksheet for students to complete immediately after kickoff workshop
- ES-Botball-SkillReqts.pdf — student learning objectives for the project
- ES-Botball-SkillCompetencyList.pdf — record sheet for tracking progress towards project learning objectives.
Navigation, Rotation, and Distance Lessons
Linda Reynolds, team leader of the Southern California Desert Robotics Botball teams, has put together two excellent lesson plans that any Botball teacher could implment in their classroom using Botball equipment from past years. One lesson plan focuses on navigation, the other on rotations and distance. Both lessons contain objectives, procedures, student activities, photos and worksheets. Linda’s lesson plans also include a section that relates the activities to National Science Standards as well as the California State Standards.
Navigation
Rotation and Distance
Developing a Research Team for the R&D Challenge
Linda Reynolds, team leader of the Desert Robotics teams, submitted an informative paper to the 2006 National Conference entitled “Developing a Research Team for the R&D Challenge”. We’re including it here for Botball team leaders who might want more information on participating in future Research and Design Challenges. The paper includes some sample California state standards.