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Grade 6 & 7 one semester 6th and 7th Grade Robotics EV3 - Getting in Gear

Submitted by Ian Braidek on 2 March, 2017 - 14:35
Overview: 
The goal of this lesson is to explore the use of gears to tradeoff between speed and power(torque) in a robot design. Students learn about gearing up, gearing down and calculating gear ratios. There is also an extended lesson on compound gear ratios for advanced students.
Objectives: 

Student will be able to:

1. Explain the behavior of a two-gear gear train

2. Calculate the gear ratio of a two-gear gear train

3. Describe gearing-up and gearing-down in terms of speed and power

Instruction Guide: 
EV3 - Getting in Gear [1]
Primary Instructional Material: 
EV3 - Getting in Gear [2]
Differentiated Instruction Material: Alternative: 
Gear & Wheel video [3]
Differentiated Instruction Material: Extended: 
Advanced Gearing: Complex and Compound Gear Trains [4]
Mountain Climber [5]
Advanced Gearing, Pulleys and Wheels [6]
Differentiated Instruction Material: Supplemental: 
LEGO 100+ Gear Calculator Video [7]
Gearing Game [8]
LEGO Gear Ratio Calculator [9]
First-ever naturally occurring gears found on insect's legs [10]
Gearing Basics Video [11]
Education Level: 
Middle School [12]
High School [13]
Scope & Sequence: 
Mathematics [14]
Focus Subject: 
Engineering [15]
Mathematics [16]
HW Platform: 
EV3 [17]
SW Platform: 
Any [18]
Interactivity Style: 
Mixed [19]
Clone Of: 
6th and 7th Grade Robotics EV3 - Getting in Gear [20]



National Science Foundation

Source URL:https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/5950

Links
[1] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2943 [2] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2944 [3] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/907 [4] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/530 [5] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/948 [6] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/1100 [7] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/531 [8] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/532 [9] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/906 [10] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2800 [11] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2860 [12] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/40 [13] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/41 [14] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/144 [15] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/focus-area/engineering [16] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/focus-area/mathematics [17] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/156 [18] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/target-software-platform/any [19] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/taxonomy/term/26 [20] https://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/4382