Implementing VEX GO STEM Labs
STEM Labs are designed to be the online teacher’s manual for VEX GO. Like a printed teacher’s manual, the teacher-facing content of the STEM Labs provides all of the resources, materials, and information needed to be able to plan, teach, and assess with VEX GO. The Lab Image Slideshows are the student-facing companion to this material. For more detailed information about how to implement a STEM Lab in your classroom, see the Implementing VEX GO STEM Labs article.
Goals and Standards
Goals
Students will apply
- How to analyze data to ask and answer questions.
- How to interpret Eye Sensor Data to prove or disprove a claim.
Students will make meaning of
- Using data as a tool to test a hypothesis.
- Analyzing patterns in data as evidence to support a claim.
- Comparing collected data to established criteria to determine whether a claim is supported or refuted.
Students will be skilled at
- Using the highest and lowest recorded distance values to determine the approximate size of the crack on the bridge.
- Displaying data about the size and location of a crack on the bottom of a bridge in a Bridge Inspection Report.
- Comparing recorded data to bridge safety criteria to draw conclusions about the safety of the bridge.
Students will know
- That data can be collected and used to support or refute a claim.
- That data can be compared to given criteria to make a determination.
- That data can be displayed to clearly communicate information to others.
Objective(s)
Objective
- Students will use distance values to calculate the approximate size of a crack on the bridge.
- Students will record the results of their data analysis on a Bridge Inspection Report and use the results to support or refute the claim that the bridge is unsafe.
Activity
- In Play Part 2, students will calculate the approximate size of the crack on the bridge by subtracting their smallest recorded distance value from their largest recorded distance value.
- Students will record the results of the calculation on their Bridge Inspection Reports and compare it to the criteria for safe, at-risk, and dangerous bridges. They will then apply everything they have learned from their data analysis to complete the Bridge Inspection Summary.
Assessment
- Students should correctly fill out the calculation and category sections of the Bridge Inspection Report, and color in the crack on the bridge surface at the bottom of that page.
- Students should determine that the bridge falls into the dangerous category by comparing their data with the bridge safety criteria.