Sensors & Measurement — Engineering Concept Lessons

28 lessons found.

Egg Drop

Using the MicroBit students will make a safe container for an egg drop. Instead of an egg, the students will be using …

Becki Butterfield 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience +1
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Egg Drop Experiment using Microbit

Students will investigate and design an experiment that explores Newton’s 2nd Law, momentum and impulse using a …

Samantha Schwessinger 9-12 Computer ScienceScienceMathematics +1
micro:bitMakeCode

Exploring Eye Tracking

The objective of this lesson is to introduce middle school students to the concept of eye tracking and its applications. …

Christy Rodgers 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionWySTACK

Exploring Eye Tracking: A Lesson For Middle Schoolers

The objective of this lesson is to introduce middle school students to the concept of eye tracking and its applications. …

Autumn Spiva 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionWySTACK

Exploring Eye Tracking: A Lesson for Middle School Students

The objective of this lesson is to introduce middle school students to the concept of eye tracking and its applications. …

Autumn Spiva 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionWySTACK

Exploring VR Eye Movement Tracking Accuracy

Students use their understanding of eye movement tracking learned in the prior lesson to test the accuracy of an eye …

Autumn Spiva 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionWySTACK

Exploring VR Eye Tracking Accuracy

This lesson uses discussions and hands-on activities to help students better understand what eye tracking is, how data …

Autumn Spiva 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionWySTACK

Factors and Hazards (Part One)

In this activity, students explore the three factors that affect weather: precipitation, temperature, and wind. Students …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +2
Data CollectionWeb Design

Fraction Racing

Students engineered mint mobiles to race through a micro bit timing gate. The data was then collected and plotted on a …

Becki Butterfield 3-5 Computer ScienceScienceMathematics +1
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Geocaching with Microbits

Geodynamics powers the Earth’s magnetic field, which is magnetic north. There is also a true north which is the Earth’s …

Samantha Schwessinger 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceReading/Language Arts +1
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Getting Active with Microbit

They are introduced to variables and develop their understanding through a mixture of unplugged and practical …

Connie Hollin 3-5 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Unpluggedmicro:bitMakeCode

Health Care Devices

In this lesson students are reminded about the ever growing uses of technology devices within the healthcare profession, …

Sarah Jarvis 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
micro:bit

Lesson 8: How does a cup’s surface affect how light warms up a liquid inside the cup?

This is modified from OpenSciEd under the Creative Common 4.0 License. We carry out an investigation to test the …

Abby Slavens 6-89-12 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Micro:bit Step Counter

This lesson focusses on coding concept variable with and lesson from Code.Org. The students will program the micro:bit …

Ryan Olson 3-56-8 Computer SciencePhysical EducationEngineering
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Micro:bits on the Fly with Lego Cars

Students will explore how sensors are used in our lives and what they could measure. Students will build a Lego car and …

Julie Snyder 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionProject-Basedmicro:bit

Microbit compass

THIS A DRAFT-Student will program a microbit that locate magnetic north, south, east and west. They will create …

Samantha Schwessinger 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceMathematics +2
micro:bit

Penguin Lab

Students will construct an penguin home to prevent the phase change of an Ice-Cube Penguin. Students will code 2 …

Sara Percy 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
micro:bit

Plotting Data in Python using Matplotlib

CSV files can be read using pandas read_csv method. Using this method you can easily use the dataframes created to plot …

John Lupher 9-12 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience +1
Data CollectionWySTACK

Shaw Plans for Classroom Implementation

This lesson consists of introducing students to the concepts of finite state machines (FSM), side-channel attacks, and …

Shari Shaw 6-8 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience +1
Data CollectionWySTACK

Use Micro:bit to Gather Temperature Data

This lesson is a part of a multi-day project where students build a small structure designed to interfere with thermal …

Amber Martines 6-8 ScienceEngineering
Data CollectionProject-Basedmicro:bit

Using Microbits to measure light level of sunlight for optimal plant growth

Students will investigate and design an experiment that explores the natural world using microprocessors. They will …

Samantha Schwessinger 6-8 Career and Technical EducationComputer ScienceScience +3
Data Collectionmicro:bit

VR Eye Tracking Accuracy

Students will understand the concept of VR eye tracking accuracy. Students will collect data on the use of VR eye …

Christy Rodgers 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceSocial Studies +1
Data CollectionWySTACK

Weather Station

In this activity, students develop a 'weather station' where they collect at least three types of weather data.

Victoria L Davis 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data CollectionProject-Basedmicro:bit

Weather: Factors and Hazards (Part Three)

In this activity, students use the scientific inquiry process to investigate the effect of water on Earth materials. …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceScienceEngineering
Data Collection

Weather: Factors and Hazards (Part Two)

In this activity, students continue their exploration of weather. They learn about two new weather tools- a wind sock …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceScienceMathematics +1
Data Collection

What's the 'W' Word in Wyoming?

Students are going to build their own anemometer to check the wind speeds in their hometown. They are going to use their …

Katie Cline 3-5 Computer ScienceScienceMathematics +1
Data Collection

What’s the Weather

Micro bit will project temp - students will graph the data accordingly Arduino will be set up as a weather station

Tesha Frederick K-23-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +2
Data Collectionmicro:bit

What’s the Weather ?

START HERE - get excited about weather!

Tesha Frederick K-2 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience +1
Data Collectionmicro:bit