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LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Next Steps With

1. Explore Curriculum Coverage

Using LEGO

MINDSTORMS

Education EV3 in your classroom opens up the possibility for a variety of successful learning outcomes.

Skills such as teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving are an inherent part of the experience, and students' natural mastery of

digital technologies will help them to rapidly learn the language of programming.

Below is a selected overview of standards that are addressed or partially-addressed when using LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3.

This list will grow steadily as you expand the use of EV3 in your classroom.

Practices

• Asking questions

• Developing and using models

• Planning and carrying out investigations

• Analyzing and interpreting data

• Using mathematics and computational thinking

• Constructing explanations and designing solutions

• Engaging in argument from evidence

• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

NGSS

Computational Thinking

• Recognize that software is created to control computer operations

• Understand and use the basic steps in algorithmic problem-solving

• Develop a simple understanding of an algorithm

Computing Practices and Programming

• Use technology resources for problem-solving and self-directed learning

• Construct a program as a set of step-by-step instructions to be acted out

• Implement solutions to problems using a block-based visual programming

language

Computers and Computing Devices

• Use standard input and output devices to successfully operate computers

and related technologies

• Apply strategies for identifying simple hardware and software problems

that may occur during use

• Identify factors that distinguish humans from machines

• Recognize that computers model intelligent behavior (as found in

robotics, speech and language recognition, and computer animation)

CSTA