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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 break down a project in order to engage in problem solving.

Students will make meaning of

  • Identifying the steps necessary to solve an authentic problem.
  • How to persevere through failure using trial and error.

Students will be skilled at

  • Using Drivetrain commands in VEXcode GO to navigate their robot through a course.
  • Designing an authentic solution to a real world problem.
  • Breaking down the steps needed to code a robot through Challenge Courses.

Students will know

  • How to program a robot to navigate two different Challenge Courses using the process of trial and error.

Objective(s)

Objective

  1. Students will decompose the coding process for navigating the Code Base robot through a particular course.
  2. Students will make connections between real-world scenarios of how parade floats navigate through certain constrained routes and their Code Base robot.

Activity

  1. Students will decompose the steps needed to navigate their Code Base robot through Challenge Course 1 by manipulating forward, backward, and turning movements in Play Part 1.
  2. During the Engage section, students will discuss what parade floats are and how they are used in a real-world setting. Students will then be introduced to the Code Base robot and build it.

Assessment

  1. Students will decompose the steps needed to navigate their Code Base robot through Challenge Course 2 by manipulating forward, backward, and turning movements in Play Part 2. Students will navigate the course from start to finish.
  2. During Mid-Play Break, students will discuss and make connections between a life-sized parade float and the Code Base robot’s movement after they have programmed it during Play Part 1.

Connections to Standards