STEM 2 with Vernier and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT
This book is perfect to motivate upper middle school and high school students to pursue science and engineering careers.
Description
STEM 2 with Vernier and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is our second book of projects and labs in collaboration with LEGO. It has activities using a Dual-Range Force Sensor, Magnetic Field Sensor, Voltage Probe, and Gas Pressure Sensor to motivate upper middle school and high school students to pursue science and engineering careers.
It covers topics in physical science and engineering, including mechanics, pressure, electricity, and magnetism. Students are challenged to build and program robots for testing batteries, “land mine” locator, automated Cartesian diver, and more.
Lab Activities Download
This book has been replaced by Vernier Engineering Projects with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education NXT, which includes all the projects within this book, but not the activities. You can download the activities below, which include the student instructions as well as essential teacher information.
Download STEM 2 with Vernier and LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Activities
LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) Files
Files for the NXT robots in the STEM and STEM2 books updated for the LDD version 4.3.6.
Included with STEM 2 with Vernier and LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT
- Complete student experiments with materials list, step-by-step instructions, data tables, and questions.
- Teacher Information section for each experiment with complete directions for setting up experiments, helpful hints, and sample graphs and data.
- Word-processing files of the student sections on a CD so that any experiment may be easily edited to your specifications (Microsoft Word for Macintosh and Windows files).
Features listed above are only available when you purchase the lab book. The downloadable evaluation PDFs include student instructions only.
Activities
project/activity | Products | |
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1 | Friction | |
2 | First-Class Levers | |
3 | Audio Assistant | |
4 | Buoyancy | |
5 | Pulleys | |
6 | String Tension Tester | |
7 | Gas Pressure | |
8 | Yeast in Action | |
9 | Grip Strength | |
10 | Cartesian Diver | |
11 | Batteries | |
12 | Lemon Battery | |
13 | Battery Tester | |
14 | Solar Cells | |
15 | Solar Tracker | |
16 | Mapping a Magnetic Field | |
17 | Electromagnets | |
18 | Migrating Robot | |
19 | Magnet Finder | |
20 | Mine Sweeper |
Dual-Range Force Sensor (6)
Gas Pressure Sensor (4)
Differential Voltage Probe (5)
Magnetic Field Sensor (5)
Correlations
National and State Standards Correlations
Meet your state and national curriculum standards with experiments from STEM 2 with Vernier and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. National and State Standard Correlations
Ordering Information
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