Motivate your students to discover, connect and understand concepts in math, science, engineering design and coding with project-based lessons for Texas Instruments graphing calculators and TI-Innovator™ technology.
Set in real-world contexts, these innovative activities are ideal for middle grades and high school classrooms, after-school programs, clubs, summer camps and special STEM events.
Strengthen students’ critical thinking and creative problem solving abilities as they work through STEM Projects using TI-84 Plus CE or TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculators and the TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board.
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 control 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.
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