LEGO EV3 Programming Introduction Tutorials

LEGO EV3 General Tips to consider

LEGO EV3 Programming Movement Tutorials

LEGO EV3 Programming Line Following Tutorials

General Resources

• Damien Kee – This guy is the man! He produces quality content and is so helpful. This is always a starting place for me when I have questions.
• Damien Kee NXT – His resource page is a great starting point if needing help with NXT
• Dr Graeme – Be prepared to waste a day on this site. It has everything from tutorials, to challenges, to more resources. This is my second go to spot after Damien. You can close to everything you need.
• kidsengineer.com – I met John Heffernan through LEAP
• theNXTstep.com Blog – I find great ideas for creativity and new challenges for kids. Keeps me current with what people are doing.
• Chow Miller – I met Ian through LEAP and what he is doing in his classroom is awesome! If I taught robotics I would be stealing his ideas on a daily basis!
• http://www.legoengineering.com/ – a great site that has a little bit of everything all mixed in.
• hightechkids.org – This is another valid website suggested by Ian Chow Miller and I agree with his recommendation about being another quality resource.
• http://rncirowro.boards.net/ – This site is another forum to share ideas. It is operated by Jeffrey Jahja. The forum forum is for RNC, IRO(both are local competitions in Indonesia), WRO, FLL, FTC and RoboCup Junior. It is always good to see what people are doing around the world
• http://www.firstlegoleague.org/ - Everything you need to know and get started.
• TechBrick – the main hub of all things FLL. Be prepared for a crazy, busy, over-saturated website, but it does have plenty of info to help guide you in getting started.
• http://www.fllcasts.com/ – This site has tutorials for both EV3 and NXT. They focus on the missions of each year, but you can adapt learning to anything. There is a fee for access to all videos, but it might be worth it to you in case you need specific help. Create a free account and then decide for yourself.
• Robodogs – This is the wiki of my robotic teams that I run with a few other coaches. Far from perfect but you can see what we have done in the past and once we get kids updating this year we will have our current info as well. I am currently moving everything over to this OneNote so it won't be updated any longer.
• EV3Lessons - we use this site almost every single practice to score our robot runs. There are a ton of other great resources, tutorials, and guides to get started. This is created by FLL team.

Courses

• Dale Yocum – http://www.stemcentric.com/ev3-tutorial/
• Carnegie Mellon – http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/lego/ev3/curriculum/
• Dr Graeme – http://www.drgraeme.org/EV3/EV3.html
• Stem Robotics – http://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2643 – This one is slowly becoming my next favorite site. So much content and help. Great resource.
• Nigel Ward – https://sites.google.com/site/gask3t/lego-ev3/ev3eeb3
• cs2n.org – a fantastic site for anyone
• Udemy – https://www.udemy.com/fun-with-beginner-lego-mindstorms-ev3-robotics – This includes build details appropriate for both Education & Home version EV3 sets.
• The Rowan U / Google CS4HS workshops – http://www.rowan.edu/cs4hs This URL will point you to the EV3 online workshop when it opens in October and also links to the existing NXT online workshop. Both workshops are self-paced and free to all, but designed specifically for teachers with no robotics or programming experience.
• ROBOTC for EV3 fall course upcoming – http://www.robotc.net/blog/2014/09/09/fall-training-2014/#more-3623

Coffeechug Blog Posts

• Challenging my Lego EV3 Skills. Master must become Student
• Robodogs season is underway! Lego EV3 and Learning
• Damien Kee Lego EV3 Book Review: Chapters 1 and 2
• First Lego League: RoboDawgs Head To State: Reflection of Learning, Growth, Soft Skills, Education http://wp.me/p4covo-8R
• Robodog Summer Camp Has Arrived! http://wp.me/p4covo-3a
  • This is from 2013 so there are some new ideas for robot challenges
• Robodogs season is underway! Lego EV3 and Learning http://wp.me/p4covo-1r
  • This is also from 2013 with some challenges we did to start our season
• Robodogs Present At STEM Meeting to Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds http://wp.me/p4covo-84

Books We Use

• The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book (Full ... by Laurens Valk http://amzn.to/1KFVnQF
• The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming (F... by Terry Griffin http://amzn.to/1PBTfuB
• The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book: 181 Simple... by Yoshihito Isogawa http://amzn.to/1lTUXQt
• The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines by Yoshihito Isogawa http://amzn.to/1lTV1zC
• The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Fantastic Contrap... by Yoshihito Isogawa http://amzn.to/1lTV6TW
• Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: EV3 by Dr Damien Kee for $54.99 http://amzn.to/1Qtqx2c

What is a robot?

STEM Robotics 101's Unit 1, Lessons 1 is called, "What is a Robot?" and seeks to draw out student's preconceptions of robots and explore the variety and ambiguity of "What is a Robot?"

The Primary Instructional Material is a simple PowerPoint, and the Differentiated Instructional Material contains 14 related resources contributed by registered teacher-users of the site (everything from a music video "Robots Need Love Too" to a very serious TED talk about robots in warfare).

The EV3 version of the course is here:

http://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/2643?root=2643

and the NXT version here:

http://stemrobotics.cs.pdx.edu/node/291

TED Talks

• TEDEd video that talks about the history of robot – https://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-robot-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel
• Chad Jenkins at Brown gave a TED talk that is wonderful for the “helping” robots: –http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_evans_and_chad_jenkins_meet_the_robots_for_humanity