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.
Science & 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.
Language Arts
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!
Science & Design
Chain Reaction Machine
Create a chain reaction machine with your VEX GO Kit, and explore chain reactions.
Social Studies
Community Helpers
Explore who helps in a community, and build a tool of those jobs.
Language Arts
Compare it!
Use your VEX GO pieces to practice using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Language Arts
Compass Rose
Create a Compass Rose to use to explain directions.
Science & Design
Copycat!
Can you copy your partner's VEX GO design in less than 60 seconds?
Engineering
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.
Coding
Create a Course
Design your own robotic challenge!
Science & Design
Creature Creation
Design and build an animal or insect of your own.
Language Arts
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.
Language Arts
Design a Novel Diorama!
Design a rolling base to represent your favorite novel.
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!
Math
Hickory, Dickory, Clock
Learn how to tell time in increments of 15 minutes.
Science
Lunar Phases!
Create a model of the eight phases of the Moon and learn their names.
Math
Multiplication Madness
Show off your Mad Math Skills
Language Arts
Multiplication Road
Speed your way through your facts!
Language Arts
Music Beat!
Write a musical rhythm that others can follow using VEX GO pieces.
Science & Engineering
Ramp Racers
Modify the wheel on your VEX GO inclined plane and race a friend!
Science & Design
Reduce and Reuse Robot
Build a Robot to Help Recycling in Our Community.
Science
Strike!
Use different pivot points on an incline plane to knock the most pins over.
Writing
Super(hero) Car!
Turn your VEX GO Super Car into a super hero’s dream car by designing some sweet add-on features.
Language Arts
Syllable Count!
Write a story containing words with specific syllable counts, and match VEX GO pieces to words.
Language Arts
Venn Diagram!
Use the VEX GO pieces to practice looking for similarities and differences between objects.
Language Arts
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!
Language Arts
What is it?
Create a picture using VEX GO pieces.
Engineering
Wheel and Axle Lunar Rover
Design a Lunar Rover that will need to have an axle and wheel to drive on the moon.
Engineering
Wheel It!
Design a Wheelbarrow that incorporates more than one simple machine.
Language Arts
Writing Instructions
Create a set of build directions so anyone can recreate your design.