GEAR-Tech-21 Curriculum
- Getting Started
- Using Leaders Guides
- About the Kids
- About the Course
- Leader Wiki and blogs
- Leader Breeze Training calendar
- Leader Guides
- Youth wiki, blogs, and calendar
- Club blogs
Year 1 Weekly Lessons
October
- Week 1: Simplebot
- Week 2: Agriculture
- Week 3: Careers
- Week 4: Engineering
- Club Activity (club blog): Post the best of your lists of examples of IT in everyday life, IT in the news, and IT in agriculture.
- View the Abobe Connect Training (10/02/2008)
November
- Week 1: Taskbot
- Week 2: Full Speed
- Week 3: Direction
- Week 4: Triangulation and Space
- Club Activity (club blog): Post a tip from each member of your club for programming a taskbot.
- View the Abobe Connect Training (10/30/2008)
December
- Week 1: Wheels/Distance
- Week 2: Geographic Coordinates
- Week 3: Coordinate Conversion
- Club Activity (club blog): Post the latitude and longitude of the towns where each member of club was born.
- View the Abobe Connect Training (12/4/2008)
January
- Week 1: Right Face
- Week 2: Untangling Latitude and Longitude
- Week 3: Clap-On
- Week 4: Maze
- Club Activity (club blog): Post diagrams and/or photos of the maze you constructed for your robots.
- View the Abobe Connect Training (01/15/2009)
February
- Week 1: Amplitude
- Week 2: Reading a paper map
- Week 3: Obstacles
- Week 4: Mapping Symbology
- Club Activity (club blog): Post some of the map symbols each of your members designed and see if members of other clubs can figure out their meaning.
- Map Differentiation PowerPoint - See a variety of maps
- View the Abobe Connect Training (02/5/2009)
March
- Week 1: Virtual World
- Week 2: Guidelines
- Week 3: Fast Tracking
- Week 4: Basics of GIS
- Club Activity (club blog): Post interior and exterior images of your meeting place, so other clubs can pay you a virtual visit.
April
- Week 1: Digital Map Customization
- Week 2: Distance between two points
- Week 3: Gears
- Week 4: Setting Waypoints
- Club Activity (club blog): Post a custom-designed map created by your club to be of interest to other clubs.
May
- Week 1: Navigation
- Week 2: Speed Up
- Week 3: GPS Games
- Week 4: Path Tracking
- Week 5: Sumo Match
- Club Activity (club blog): Post images and names of your Sumo robots.
