Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Projects are great for keeping students engaged in learning real-world skills after exams are complete or during summer STEM camps. These motivating, engaging activities encourage collaborative problem-solving, lively discussion, exploration and discovery of connections in science, math, engineering design and robotics.
Below you’ll find free, project-based activities set in real-world contexts perfect for middle grade and high school classrooms, after-school clubs and special STEM events.
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TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board and the TI-Innovator™ Rover.
With our loan assistance program, we can lend you the materials and technology needed for your project(s), including a TI-Innovator™ Hub and TI-Innovator™ Rover.
The equipment list will show you what you’ll need for each of the STEM Projects activities mentioned below. This will aid you in your budget requests and grant proposals.
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Students sharpen their critical and creative thinking skills as they define problems and design and refine solutions using a TI-84 Plus CE or TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator to program a TI-Innovator™ Hub.
This activity is “square one” for using TI graphing calculators to code the TI-Innovator™ Hub on other STEM Projects. Students program input and output feedback controls to make the built-in lights on the TI-Innovator™ Hub mimic the colors of a mood ring.
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Engage students in the math and science of the greenhouse effect by designing and building a pet-smart alarm system that sounds an alert when the interior temperature of a model car approaches the danger zone.
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The Smart Irrigation System challenges students to find a solution to a critical real-world problem — how to use water most efficiently — by designing, building and coding a working model system that waters real crops without wasting a drop.
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The Four-Chambered Heart inspires a passion for biomechanical engineering as students design the electrical system that makes an artificial heart go thump-thump, thump-thump.
TI-84 Plus CE Activity
Creating music through coding is a great way to engage students in math, science, design and coding by programming the TI-Innovator™ Hub to play a tune on its built-in speaker.
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In Some Like It Tepid, students collect temperature data of their favorite beverage, define thresholds and program the Hub’s built-in LED to indicate the beverage’s temperature.
The TI-RGB Array provides another level of engagement as students experiment with controlling each of the 16 individual RGB LEDs. Math, science and design all come together when using the TI-RGB Array.
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When the wheels are turning, students are learning. The TI-Innovator™ Rover — controlled by a Hub that is programmed with TI graphing calculators — puts math and science in motion.
Challenge students to experiment with distance, time and speed in an effort to make the TI-Innovator™ Rover robotic vehicle stop just short of a plastic dog (the other “Rover”) placed at a random distance by the teacher.
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The Mars Rover Challenge (Motion) introduces students to the coding and hardware-control practices and processes NASA engineers use to keep a remotely operated vehicle on track while exploring another planet.
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The Mars Mineral Challenge (Sensing) focuses on programming Rover to sense changes as it covers its track. Students write and run code that uses Rover’s built-in color and distance sensors to control outputs such as LED lights and motors.
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Help your classroom experience math in a whole new way with activities that put math in motion. Students can code their own programs to control Rover, or they can explore math concepts using premade programs.
Check out these simple and quick STEM activities that are perfect if your school is hosting a STEM night, STEM Saturday or other STEM event.