Materials List: Navigating a Maze

Each group needs:

To share with the entire class:

  • Navigating a Maze Presentation, a Microsoft® PowerPoint® file
  • computer and projector to show the presentation
  • maze, made of cardboard boxes; refer to Figure 1 and slide 4

Note: This activity can also be conducted with the older (and no longer sold) LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set instead of EV3; see below for those supplies:

  • LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot, such as the NXT Base Set; follow the taskbot building instructions in the base set manual, expected to take 45 minutes max; alternatively, build a simpler taskbot following the "Five Minute Bot" building instructions at http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/five_minute_bot/index.html
  • LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Software 2.1
  • computer, loaded with NXT 2.1 software
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