Design Weather Instruments Using LEGO Sensors
Students create LEGO structuresCopyright Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Lego_Color_Bricks.jpg
Student teams design and create LEGO® structures to house and protect temperature sensors. They leave their structures in undisturbed locations for a week, and regularly check and chart the temperatures. This activity engages students in the design and analysis aspects of engineering.
The roles that engineers play in the field of weather detection range from the design and manufacturing of instruments such as thermometers and water gauges, to analyzing data obtained from them to create predictive models, to designing structures that minimize the affects of hazardous weather. They also design all kinds of sensors to gather data.
- Temperature changes over time, and is not always constant.
- Graphing techniques.
- Data collection method.
- Design techniques.