Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Projects are an ideal way to keeping your kids excited about learning after exams and over the summer. These motivating, engaging activities encourage collaborative problem-solving, lively discussion, and exploration and discovery of connections in science, math, engineering design and robotics.
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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.
The Digital Mood Ring activity is “square one” for using Texas Instruments 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 Hub mimic the colors of a mood ring.
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Pet Car Alarm engages 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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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 (coming soon)
Making Music With Code is a fun way to engage students in math, science, design and coding by programming the 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.
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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.
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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Move the Cone is a Rover STEM project that encourages students to write their own programs with commonly used Rover and TI Basic coding commands to have Rover complete a series of challenges involving polygons, the coordinate plane and equations.
The STEM activity Navigate “Math-hatten” Challenge engages students in exploration of connections between distance, rate, time and angles as they write a program that guides Rover through a scaled down, 3D-printed city.
In this Math in Motion Plus activity, students will write their own program for the TI-Innovator™ Rover. They will explore multiple representations of position, velocity and time to write code that will navigate a set of challenges.
Remember to check TIstemProjects.com often for updates.