This is a journal for the fall 2000 LEGO Projects of Davis Creek Elementary students.  Davis Creek Elementary participates in a West Virginia Space Grant Consortium K12 Outreach Grant that affords them the expertise of Mrs. Linda Hamilton, mathematics instructor at Marshall University, and the use of LEGO educational materials.  Students build simple machines using LEGO sets that feature gears, pulleys, motors, levers, and wheels and axles.  Students will participate in whole language activities that include building simple machines, writing up their accounts, and using LEGO CAD to make a lasting virtual model of their machine as well.  Robots are built utilizing light, sound, and motion sensors, also with microcomputers that are used by students in various schools around the world to teleoperate robots manipulating and analyzing data.  The Planetary Society sponsors the Mars Red Rover Program that is connected through NASA educational centers around the United States, and, indeed, throughout the world.  Students may drive the Mars Red Rover via the internet.
Look out Red Planet, we are getting ready!

Created Fall 2000
Linda Hamilton & Sharon Simon