Light Bulb Efficiency
Students apply their understanding of energy transfer and transformation to investigate and compare the efficiencies of two different light bulbs.
Automatic Nightlight
Students apply their understanding of light behavior to create a program that functions like a nightlight as well as investigating brightness (amplitude)...
Random Number Cube
Students will create a program, using the //code.Node motion sensor to mimic a number cube. Additionally, students will use basic probability concepts...
Magnetic Polarity
Students create a program, using the //code.Node magnetic field sensor, that will determine the polarity of a bar magnet.
Red Light/Green Light
Students create Blockly code that controls a wireless light source and a Smart Cart Motor based on inputs from a light sensor and a position sensor. A...
Weight Drop Launch
Students will investigate how a weight drop launch style of roller coaster works using a //code.Node Cart. Additionally, they will create a Blockly program...
Crash Test: Velocity and Inertia
Students will explore Newton's laws of motion using the //code.Node Cart to measure velocity and observing what occurs when it comes to a sudden stop....
Wheels: Diameter and Distance
Students will calculate the circumference of the //code.Node Cart wheels in order to solve problems as well as create two Blockly coding programs.
Blockly Extension: Acoustic Stopwatch
Students develop Blockly code that uses data from a Wireless Sound Sensor to trigger start and stop...
Digital Thermometer
Students use a //code.Node and a wireless temperature sensor to create a device that alerts the user to a fever.
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