Resources
This collection of sample teacher guides is from Damien Kee, who works with teachers and students around the world to improve teaching with robots. The resources can get you up-and-running using a range of robotics platforms in the classroom, and are written in an easy-to-follow, practical style.
Robotics in STEM industries
This poster provides examples of different industries that are using robotic technology. For example:
- Manufacturing
- Subsea
- Transport
- Healthcare
- Space
A collection of posters all linked to robotics. The first poster looks at how robotics is used in different STEM industries, including manufacturing, healthcare and space. The second poster promotes the skills that you can develop when you learn about robotics. The third poster looks at a number of different...
Robotics with Enchanting and LEGO® NXT
Enchanting is free to use software that enables students to program LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots. Unlike Lego’s proprietary software, Enchanting allows the students to program in a Scratch like environment. The first resource is a teacher guide to NXT and the Enchanting IDE. It provides a detailed introduction to the...
When was the last time you saw a robot? Did you read about one in a book or see one in a movie? Maybe you saw one in a video game!
Some people think robots exist only in our imagination, but actually, robots are all around us right now. Robotics: With 25 Science Projects for Kids offers readers ages...
Robotics: Can we design a robotic arm?
This resource provides a set of videos of a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science to real world experiences, presented by Professor Brian Cox and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In this video, Maggie joins a teacher demonstrating a robotics-based...
In Robotics , children ages 9 and up learn how robots affect both the future and the present. Hands-on activities make learning both fun and lasting.
Looks at what robots are, ideas about them through history, practical and experimental robots currently in use or development, and fictional robots in various media.
This book written in the 1980s is aimed at primary-aged pupils and explores the history of robots, different kinds of robots and what's inside a robot.
Robots and artificial intelligence AI: lessons in the ethics of robots
This resource supports students to research and discuss the field of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). The resource provides a series of student tasks that explore the topic of whether robots are a threat to humanity. This resource would work well as a research topic for students undertaking projects in...