Places to look for additional ideas or resources

Some of these sites contain lesson plans using LEGO® pieces; others are background information.  You will find many other good sources about LEGO®, but these are a starting point.

Toying With Technology

Our website.  You can contact us through here to set up a visit at your school.  Also included are pictures, lesson plans, and other information.

http://class.ee.iastate.edu/twt

The website for the educational division of the LEGO® Company

http://www.LEGO.com/DACTA/home.asp

Pitsco LEGO® DACTA

This is the distributor of LEGO®’s educational division.  In addition to its catalog, there is a section on grants. It explains how to write them as well as gives information on places that give money towards education.

http://www.pitsco-LEGODACTA.com

The official website for LEGO® MINDSTORMS

http://www.LEGOmindstoms.com

Weird Richard’s website

An excellent website explaining how one school uses LEGO® extensively.  Contains  many lesson plans.

http://www.weirdrichard.com

MINDSTORMS in Education

A list of links on MINDSTORMS in Education. Content varies widely.

http://www.crynwr.com/LEGO-robotics/education.html

LEGO® Design and Programming System

Engineering and Science: A curriculum for K-12

http://ldaps.ivv.nasa.gov/

Blake School

Another example of how schools use LEGO®.

http://www.blake.pvt.k12.mn.us/campus/projects/lower/LEGO/index.html

Center for Engineering Educational Outreach at Tufts University

http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/graphics/index.html

National Instruments information about Robolab

http://www.ni.com/robolab/

The international fan-created LEGO^® Users Group Network! This is a place to find information and share ideas.

http://www.lugnet.com/

Gerald Ford School LEGO® Lab

Yet another example of how school use LEGO®

http://www.desertschools.net/LEGO/

LEGO® DACTA Enrichment project- Gander Academy

Student Activity Sheets and Teacher’s Guides

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/DACTA.htm

The Dave Baum ‘s (creator of Not Quite C) website.  You can download the program from here.

http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/LEGO/index.html

The Mark Overmyers’ (the creator of the RCXCC Command Center) website.  You can download the program from here as well as very detailed tutorials. 

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/LEGO/

Background Information, FAQ, and other links by Fred Martin at MIT

http://fredm.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/MINDSTORMS/index.html

There are lots of different web sites on the internet containing LEGO® all you have to do is look.  You could spend hours.

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