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Meet the women and girls of STEM. They build robots, find new sources of energy, study animals, play with slime, and invent apps. They help make the world a better (and cooler) place to be. Each story will give you a sneak peek into how they got their start in STEM and help you begin your journey too!

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SPIKE & Chromebooks How to Set Up SPIKE Essential & Prime

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SPIKE Prime Software Prep Follow these instructions if you are attending one of our SPIKE Prime workshops!

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Graph energy consumption to gain potential energy.

Prepare for Blended Learning

(Before Class)

If you feel it's needed, plan a lesson using the getting started material in the app. This will help familiarize you and your students with SPIKE Prime.

Make sure to watch the lesson video on this page.

Read through the student material for this lesson via the link on this page, or in the SPIKE App.

You might want to consider:

Choosing the right tool(s) and the right place. For example, watching videos, reading a textbook, or preparing for a hands-on experience can easily be done at home. Performing the experiment and collecting data "hands-on" is easier in a classroom setting.

Using a variety of tools and allowing for broad differentiation. This will increase your students' engagement and improve learning outcomes.

Providing various methods of virtual collaboration. Here are some examples:

Videoconferencing

Blogs, chats, or wall posts

Digital versions of student worksheets

Adapting the lesson flow to account for not being a classroom setting throughout the entire lesson. We've provided an example lesson flow below.

Here are other ways to adapt the lesson flow to your student needs:

Have your students watch the videos describing what they're about to do. You can point them to the SPIKE App or use the student worksheet URL.

Use any other material you may have already prepared on the topic.

Customize the Student Inventor Book to have your students prepare their learning experience and reflect on their findings. (see Additional Resources)

Use the Lesson Briefs (an easy-to-use lesson overview printable 1-pager) to inspire your students with an open ended challenge. (see Additional Resources)

Engage

(Before Class (20 Min.))

The topic of this lesson is energy transfer. Your students will learn that in order for a biker to maintain a constant speed (i.e., constant kinetic energy) when going up hill (i.e., to gain potential energy), he or she needs to input energy. This lesson uses a model of an electric bike. Its energy will come from an increase in its motor's power consumption. In a real-life situation, this energy would come from extra effort from the bicyclist.

Use various materials to engage your students on the topic of energy transfer.

Ignite a Discussion
Start a discussion by asking questions related to the lesson. Here are a few suggestions:

What will happen to your speed when you go up a hill?

What type of energy do you gain as you go up?

What do you need to do to maintain a consistent energy level of you on your bike (your system)?

Why do you think that's the case?

Have your students write down their thoughts as a hypothesis.

Explore

(In Class, 30 Min.)

Have your students build a smart bike that can record its motor's power consumption and the angle of a slope. They can create their own models, or follow the building instructions in the app to build the Smart Bike model.

Ask your students to try out their models on a flat surface using the suggested program in the SPIKE App.

Tell them to look at the graph and document what they see:

How can they explain the burst in the motor power values when the motion starts?

Why do the two plotted lines look like they do?

Explain

(In Class, 45 Min.)

Have your students repeat the experiment using a slope, which they can create using the SPIKE Prime box and a plank.

Ask your students to explain how the smart bike's motor is adding energy to maintain a constant speed.

Have them explain the relationship between the motor's power consumption and the angle of the slope.

Tell them to export their data as a CSV file, so they can manipulate it in other software if they wish.

Elaborate

(After Class, 25 Min.)

If your students still have access to their SPIKE Prime Sets, have them complete the tasks from the SPIKE App, to elaborate with hands-on learning, for example:

Challenge your students to create their own paths. Ask them to create paths that include a flat surface, and upward and downward slopes.

Have them trace what they think the graph of the motor's power consumption will look like. Then ask them to run their bike along the path to see if they were right.

If your students don't have access to their sets, have them complete their Student Inventor Notebook, or assign one of the extension activities suggested below. Most of the extension activities can be done using the data collected during the hands-on session

Facilitate a sharing session in which your students exchange their thoughts and results of this experiment. This can be done using whichever method/tool is most efficient (i.e., in-person or online).

Evaluate

Give feedback on each student's performance.

You can use the assessment rubrics provided to simplify the process.

Assessment Opportunities

Teacher Observation Checklist
Establish a scale that meets your needs, for example:

Partially accomplished

Fully accomplished

Overachieved

Use the following success criteria to evaluate your students' progress:

The students can program a device to log data on a line graph.

The students can interpret the values coming from the line graph.

The students can explain the transfer of energy using appropriate terms.

Self-Assessment
Have each student choose the brick that they feel best represents their performance.

Blue: I can graph data using the program provided in the app.

Yellow: I can create my own line graph and explain my results.

Violet: I've created new experiments on my own.

Peer-Assessment
Encourage your students to give feedback to others by:

Having one student score the performance of another using the colored brick scale above.

Asking them to present constructive feedback to each other so that they can improve their performance during the next lesson. This is a great opportunity to use videoconferencing tools or blog posting tools in a blended learning scenario.

Differentiation

Simplify this lesson by:

Taking the time to describe with your students what a direct proportion is.

Asking your students give examples of a direct proportion from their daily life.

Take this lesson to the next level by:

Asking your students to build their own smart bikes

Challenging your students to create their own scientific protocols and decide which value(s) they'll track and how they'll do it

Tips

Coding Tips
Using Download Mode
This lesson is designed to be played in Download Mode, but can also be played in Steaming Mode. The Download Mode allows for a higher sample rate of data collection by the Hub. This means that the Line Graph has a better resolution. It also means that the data set has to be imported after the program has been stopped.

Using the Stop Program Block to transfer automatically data sets
Using this block will end your program and trigger automatically an upload of the collected data sets from the Hub to your device when connected via bluetooth.

Science Data Tips
Here is an example of the data students can expect from this experiment.

Extensions

Math Extension
To incorporate the development of math skills:

Have your students realize that the two values graphed during this lesson are recorded over time (i.e., angle over time and motor's power over time)

Have your students perform data manipulations to trace the graph of the motor's power over the angle of the slope, both manually and using online tools.

Note: This will require additional time.

Language Arts Extension
To incorporate the development of language arts skills:

Have each student write a science inquiry journal, documenting their hypothesis and conclusions as a scientist would.

Have each student write a newspaper article reporting a major new scientific discovery. Ask them to document the scientific protocols used, as a journalist would.

Provide examples of scientific newspaper articles and science inquiry journals. Ask your students to compare the two and document their observations.

Note: This will require additional time.

Career Links
Students who've enjoyed this lesson might be interested in exploring these career pathways:

Health Science

Education & Training

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

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Classroom Management

We recommend to always label and name all your SPIKE Prime sets, hubs and other hardware with a unique name, to ease classroom management.

Model and Hardware

If the program on your Hub doesn't start right away, be aware that it takes a second for the number animation on the Hub matrix display to disappear before the program starts to execute.

There are a lot of models with design inspiration and LEGO ® build techniques throughout the lessons in the app. Build them and study them and they can help you design new mechanisms for your SPIKE Prime creation.

LEGO ® Technic Color Sensor can read colors at 16 mm +-8 mm when accepting some colors are better than other and with lower confidence level. For reflected light, there is a larger range for good readings, though we still recommend 8-16mm for best results.

Clean the ball caster every once in a while, there's a small hole in the frame of the caster where you can blow out any collected dust.

Wire clips are useful for identifying which motor or sensor is in which port. It's good to match a color near the motor or sensor and then one near the input port of the Hub.

LEGO Technic Distance Sensor - Sometimes there is interference caused from other sensors or objects in your visibility. Be aware of this while testing your creations.

All of the 6 ports on the Hub work as both input and output ports.

The battery charges from the USB port on the Hub only. This means that your SPIKE Prime creation is charging while you are programming if connected via USB cable. This also means you cannot charge a spare battery by itself.

You can check the battery level in the app, on the Hub properties page.

Download vs. Streaming Mode

Download mode is the default mode that allows you to save your programs to the Hub, disconnect it from your device and execute the program by selecting the program saved on the Hub.

Streaming mode allows you to play programs in real time, it enables you to play the program and change the parameters of the program as it's playing. Streaming mode is great for testing, but it reacts very differently from download and run mode. Streaming mode has a bit of a slower response time, mind that difference when testing your creation.

Programming Canvas

There are 20 storage positions for saving programs on the Hub. The storage positions are arranged in ascending order from 0-19, save your program to one of these positions.

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