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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.
Alike

Sort your pieces by their attributes!
Animal Habitats

Explore and create an animal habitat display.
Architecture

Use your imagination and your beams to “draw” a building, then try drawing the beam building you created!
Astronaut Rescue

Use your design skills to create a contraption to rescue the VEX GO Astronaut!
Astronaut Vault

Code your robot to speed quickly toward an object and stop before hitting it.
Brain Break!

Create a Brain Break Dial to help choose what type of activity to do.
Build It, Make It, Engineer It

Can you build a house? Will it stay up during a windstorm? Let’s find out!
Bump It

Practice turning at right angles.
Chain Reaction Machine

Create a chain reaction machine with your VEX GO Kit, and explore chain reactions.
Code Base Coordinates

Create a project in VEXcode GO that directs the Code Base to travel to a specific point on a grid.
Color Code It

Use the Eye Sensor to steer your robot.
Color Designs

Learn about color mixing and color your own design
Community Helpers

Explore who helps in a community, and build a tool of those jobs.
Compare It

Use your VEX GO pieces to practice using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Compass Rose

Create a Compass Rose to use to explain directions.
Copycat!

Can you copy your partner's VEX GO design in less than 60 seconds?
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.
Create a Course

Design your own robotic challenge!
Creature Creation

Design and build an animal or insect of your own.
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.
Design a Novel Diorama

Design a rolling base to represent your favorite novel.
Design Star

Dream up some fabulous designs using your VEX GO Spirograph!
Equation Balancer

Turn your VEX GO lever build into a pan balance and write some equations!
Fishing for Facts

Use the VEX GO Robot Arm to “fish” for multiplication facts!
Flipping Flags

Create flags from beams and plates and flip them!
Follow Directions

Make a fun design with your VEX GO pieces and practice communicating by directing a partner to recreate it!
Food Chain

Create your own food chain example!
Get to Know GO

Get familiar with your VEX GO pieces using your powers of observation.
Handy Helpers

Create a brochure explaining different ways the Adaptation Claw can be used as a helpful tool.
Hickory, Dickory, Clock

Learn how to tell time in increments of 15 minutes.
Lunar Phases

Create a model of the eight phases of the Moon and learn their names.
Made to Measure

Explore measuring in centimeters with your beams!
Map Challenge

Can you make a representation of a geographical region?
Mars Rover - Sample Analysis

Code your Code Base - Eye + Electromagnet as a Mars Rover to analyse the color of a sample.
Mars Rover - Search and Collect

Practice Sensing and Using the Electromagnet
Multiplication Madness

Show off your Mad Math Skills
Multiplication Road

Speed your way through your facts!
Music Beat

Write a musical rhythm that others can follow using VEX GO pieces.
Obstacle

Use the Code Base to detect colored obstacles and travel across a field!
Pendulum Time

Make changes to the Pendulum to see how it affects its swing.
Perimeter Practice

Use beams to draw a floor plan and determine each room’s perimeters.
Pet Protection

Use your VEX GO pieces to create a fence to protect your pet and measure around it!
Pin Out

Can you out play your partner and win the last pin?
Ramp Racers

Modify the wheel on your VEX GO inclined plane and race a friend!
Reduce and Reuse Robot

Build a Robot to Help Recycling in Our Community.
Rotate It

Explore rotation with pivoting beams!
Scavenger Hunt

Can you find all the VEX GO pieces to complete this Scavenger Hunt?
Security Robot

Create a project that uses the Code Base to keep your treasures safe and sound.
Stack 'em Up

Make stacks with your pieces and try to draw them!
Start It

Use the LED Bumper to start a coding project.
Strike!

Use different pivot points on an incline plane to knock the most pins over.
Super(hero) Car

Turn your VEX GO Super Car into a super hero’s dream car by designing some sweet add-on features.
Syllable Count

Write a story containing words with specific syllable counts, and match VEX GO pieces to words.
Symmetry

Challenge a partner to create a mirror image of your design!
Tallest Tower Challenge

Can you build a taller freestanding tower than your partner's tower using the same 10 pieces?
Venn Diagram

Use the VEX GO pieces to practice looking for similarities and differences between objects.
VEX GO Gaps

Create stories with missing words that your classmates complete by knowing only the part of speech.
VEX Pin Game

Can you build a one-player game? Use pins, design a game, and see if you can win!
What is it?

Create a picture using VEX GO pieces.
Wheel and Axle Lunar Rover

Design a Lunar Rover that will need to have an axle and wheel to drive on the moon.
Wheel It

Design a Wheelbarrow that incorporates more than one simple machine.
Writing Instructions

Create a set of build directions so anyone can recreate your design.