STEM Labs
VEX GO Activities
These activities offer more ways to engage with the VEX GO Kit, providing simple one page exercises that infuse STEM concepts into the curricular content being taught in the classroom.
They are designed to be easy to follow for independent student use, as an extension activity or in a Learning Center setting. With curriculum connections, they can also be a part of a teacher’s lesson, or a scaffolding strategy to support differentiated learning.
Each one is designed with Step by Step instructions for students to complete the activity, as well as “Level Up” prompts for extensions or challenges, and “Pro Tips” to highlight techniques and concepts around building and design.
Click on one of the tiles below to access a VEX GO Activity.
Engineering
Advanced Scavenger Hunt
Can you build all the VEX GO assemblies to complete this Scavenger Hunt?
Discovery Activities
Architecture
Use your imagination and your beams to “draw” a building, then try drawing the beam building you created!
Design
Astronaut Rescue
Use your design skills to create a contraption to rescue the VEX GO Astronaut!
Coding
Astronaut Vault
Code your robot to speed quickly toward an object and stop before hitting it.
Art
Brain Break!
Create a Brain Break Dial to help choose what type of activity to do.
Engineering
Build It, Make It, Engineer It
Can you build a house? Will it stay up during a windstorm? Let’s find out!
Design
Chain Reaction Machine
Create a chain reaction machine with your VEX GO Kit, and explore chain reactions.
Coding
Code Base Coordinates
Create a project in VEXcode GO that directs the Code Base to travel to a specific point on a grid.
Literacy
Community Helpers
Explore who helps in a community, and build a tool of those jobs.
Literacy
Compare It
Use your VEX GO pieces to practice using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Design
Copycat!
Can you copy your partner's VEX GO design in less than 60 seconds?
Design
Covered Maze Box
Design a maze that a marble can move through, then add walls and a roof, so the player can’t see the course.
Literacy
Definition in Action
Choose a vocabulary word or phrase from those in your current Unit, and create a build to show the definition in action.
Art
Design a Novel Diorama
Design a rolling base to represent your favorite novel.
Art
Design Star
Dream up some fabulous designs using your VEX GO Spirograph!
Math
Equation Balancer
Turn your VEX GO lever build into a pan balance and write some equations!
Math
Fishing for Facts
Use the VEX GO Robot Arm to “fish” for multiplication facts!
Discovery Activities
Flipping Flags
Create flags from beams and plates and flip them!
Discovery Activities
Follow Directions
Make a fun design with your VEX GO pieces and practice communicating by directing a partner to recreate it!
Discovery Activities
Get to Know GO
Get familiar with your VEX GO pieces using your powers of observation.
Design
Handy Helpers
Create a brochure explaining different ways the Adaptation Claw can be used as a helpful tool.
Math
Hickory, Dickory, Clock
Learn how to tell time in increments of 15 minutes.
Art
Lunar Phases
Create a model of the eight phases of the Moon and learn their names.
Discovery Activities
Made to Measure
Explore measuring in centimeters with your beams!
Geography
Map Challenge
Can you make a representation of a geographical region?
Coding
Mars Rover - Sample Analysis
Code your Code Base - Eye + Electromagnet as a Mars Rover to analyse the color of a sample.
Coding
Mars Rover - Search and Collect
Practice Sensing and Using the Electromagnet
Literacy
Music Beat
Write a musical rhythm that others can follow using VEX GO pieces.
Coding
Obstacle
Use the Code Base to detect colored obstacles and travel across a field!
Engineering
Pendulum Time
Make changes to the Pendulum to see how it affects its swing.
Math
Perimeter Practice
Use beams to draw a floor plan and determine each room’s perimeters.
Discovery Activities
Pet Protection
Use your VEX GO pieces to create a fence to protect your pet and measure around it!
Math
Practice Measuring
Use what you know about measuring to drive your Code Base a specific distance.
Engineering
Ramp Racers
Modify the wheel on your VEX GO inclined plane and race a friend!
Design
Reduce and Reuse Robot
Build a Robot to Help Recycling in Our Community.
Engineering
Scavenger Hunt
Can you find all the VEX GO pieces to complete this Scavenger Hunt?
Coding
Security Robot
Create a project that uses the Code Base to keep your treasures safe and sound.
Discovery Activities
Stack 'em Up
Make stacks with your pieces and try to draw them!
Science
Strike!
Use different pivot points on an incline plane to knock the most pins over.
Art
Super(hero) Car
Turn your VEX GO Super Car into a super hero’s dream car by designing some sweet add-on features.
Engineering
Swift Switch: Motorized Drawbridge
Use a motor and a switch from your VEX GO Kit to build a swift and efficient drawbridge. Can you make it the fastest and smoothest?
Literacy
Syllable Count
Write a story containing words with specific syllable counts, and match VEX GO pieces to words.
Discovery Activities
Symmetry
Challenge a partner to create a mirror image of your design!
Design
Tallest Tower Challenge
Can you build a taller freestanding tower than your partner's tower using the same 10 pieces?
Literacy
Venn Diagram
Use the VEX GO pieces to practice looking for similarities and differences between objects.
Literacy
VEX GO Gaps
Create stories with missing words that your classmates complete by knowing only the part of speech.
Science & Design
VEX Pin Game
Can you build a one-player game? Use pins, design a game, and see if you can win!
Design
Wheel and Axle Lunar Rover
Design a Lunar Rover that will need to have an axle and wheel to drive on the moon.
Design
Wheel It
Design a Wheelbarrow that incorporates more than one simple machine.
Math
Wheel Turns
Use your VEX GO wheels and a ruler to measure how far a wheel travels each time it turns.
Literacy
Writing Instructions
Create a set of build directions so anyone can recreate your design.