Robots & People

Overview

Robots & People

Rae Ostman [4]

Description:

In the first part of the “Robots & People” program, visitors learn what robots and nanobots are, what they can do, and how they affect our lives. In the second part of the program, visitors imagine and draw a robot, designing it to do a particular task.

Objectives

Big Idea:

Robots and people influence each other.

Learning goals:

Explain that a robot is a machine that can sense, plan, and act.
Explain that nanobots would be robots the size of cell or molecules—but they don’t yet exist.
Give examples of some of the things people have created robots to do.
Describe how robots and people influence each other; for example: values shape the kinds of robots we create and use, robots can change the relationships between people, and robots are part of larger systems that include technological, political, social, and environmental components.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

Provide physical and sensory access to all aspects of the program. Visitors can touch, see and hear different elements of the program.

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Sciencenter [6]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Adaptable Formats

Classroom activity [7]
Facilitated activity [8]
Stage presentation [2]

Nano Topics

Audience

All ages [13]

Permissions

[17]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section:

Programs

What kind of program?:

Stage presentation

Adaptable formats:

Classroom activity

Facilitated activity

Stage presentation

Nano topics:

Bio and medicine

Fundamentals

Materials, tools, and applications

Society, policy, and economics

Audience:

All ages

Content keywords:

robots

design

build

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K-12:

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.

Standards

Science and Technology:

K-4: Abilities of technological design

K-4: Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans

K-4: Understanding about science and technology

5-8: Abilities of technological design

5-8: Understanding about science and technology

History and nature of science:

K-4: Science as a human endeavor

5-8: Science as a human endeavor

Science as inquiry:

K-4: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

5-8: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

Resources

[3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

Robots & People - Lesson Plan [18]

Robots & People - Sign [19]

Robots & People - Drawing Sheet [20]

Robots & People - Slides [21]

Evaluations

Comments

Robots & People

Robots & People

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Big Idea:

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Universal design:

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Checklist

Adaptable Formats

Nano Topics

Audience

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Permissions

Catalog section:

What kind of program?:

Adaptable formats:

Nano topics:

Audience:

Content keywords:

Highlight this product during NanoDays?:

K-12:

Science and Technology:

History and nature of science:

Science as inquiry:

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: