Building Their Future and Ours Just

LEGO® smart students in middle school are building their

future and ours. They are exploring their talents, becoming
creative problem solvers, and contemplating what future path
they will take to make our world a better place.
From robotics and mechanisms to renewable energy and
pneumatics, LEGO Education middle school solutions tap into
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
principles and enable students to engage with these subjects
authentically.
Moreover, practicing STEM in the classroom calls for
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way, learners gain opportunities to immediately reflect on the
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achieve better results with their classmates’ input. Now that’s
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Teacher: Ian Chow-Miller

LEGO® Education
District: Bethel School District
City, State: Tacoma, Washington
Q: How do students react to
Academy
Grade Level: 7
Number of years using working with EV3?
LEGO Education solutions: 8 A: Students love the ease of building

Q: How has EV3 expanded learning for your

students?
and programming. Even without their
computers, they are able to make their
robot drive around the room! Students
Product Training
A: I have had students do all my standard NXT projects with EV3 who are moving from NXT to EV3 are
amazed by all the little advancements – Puppy and Professional
Development
(such as The Wave, drag racers, obstacle course, and so on), but
easier sensor attachment, smoother use of
where EV3 has allowed me to expand and take my projects to
wires, and so on.
a new level is with the content editor. For our Sumobot project,
students took pictures and videos of their robots and uploaded LEGO® Education solutions enable
Q: Have you experienced any aha moments educators to provide STEM challenges
them to the content editor to share with their partners, and it
created a fascinating dynamic and really mimicked long-distance when students were working with EV3? optimized for middle school student
collaboration. success. Get started with a professional
A: When students discover the sound and image editors and
development workshop tailored to your
Q: Please explain your experience in using realize they can express themselves through their robots, it really
needs. Workshops offered:
opens their eyes to a whole new set of possibilities. It gives them
EV3 that stretched across multiple learning another “voice,” which is so important for middle school students;
• Machines and Motorized
Mechanisms
standards such as science, technology, they all want to be heard and noticed.
• EV3 Introduction
engineering, math, and literacy. • NXT Introduction, Intermediate,
Q: Will EV3 help you become a more and Advanced
A: With EV3, data logging is not just something you can do, it’s effective teacher? If so, how? • NXT to EV3
something you want to do. I had my students design experiments
• Competitions Workshop
where they collected data with their robots about overcrowding A: Yes, the content editor allows me to customize any lesson I
• Plus many more!
in the hallways of our school and attendant noise and heat want for my students. I can add assignment extensions, extra help,
levels. They used the information gathered by their robots to examples in the form of robot pictures or programming ideas,
then write proposals to the principal suggesting ways to reduce and anything else I wish. In short, I can embed my lesson in their
overcrowding. The data collected by their EV3s was imported into assignment so they can spend their time being creative and not
Excel, changed to graphs, and included with their proposals. just memorizing what I’ve tried to teach them. Professional Development
for 10 teachers—$2,000*
*($100 more for each
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Through partnerships with FIRST®, Pitsco Education, National Instruments™, Vernier Software & Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Prices good through December 31, 2014.
Tufts University, and others, LEGO® Education is able to provide the tools middle school teachers need to keep students constantly
engaged in STEM learning. Middle School Solutions
2014
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STEM Solutions for Middle School
Enabling student-directed, hands-on learning can turn your classroom A Purdue University study has found that
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education
Robotics is a proven and effective way to capture students’ With LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3, implementing
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into an even more dynamic environment where students take an engaged,
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provide the framework for creating just such an environment with an
the best way to get students interested in
engineering and technology at an early
age may be to focus less on textbooks
technology, engineering, and math learning. More than 15 years
ago, LEGO® Education pioneered the field of robotics for STEM
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your students with the new EV3 content
Simple & Motorized Mechanisms Classroom Packs editor included with the software!
Enable students to investigate advanced mechanisms, pneumatics, and
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After School & Competitions

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