Activities at The ROVer Ranch

The ROVer Ranch presents

Take a Robot Qwhiz!: Test Your Knowledge
Let's Talk Robotics: A Liftoff to Learning Video Resource Guide
Rover Races: Challenges of operating a planetary rover
Build a Mars Pathfinder Model: Make your own spacecraft
Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!: From Dr. Marc's Space Place
Robots Alive! Guide and Resources from the PBS show Scientific American Frontiers: Activities: Define and write and algorithm, Build a pizza-cutting robot, Fin d the center of gravity, Design a robot, Build a rotating wing
Natural Born Robots, also from PBS Scientific American Frontiers: Activities: RoboRoach, Swim Like a Fish, Body Builders, Robots Have Feelings Too!, and more...
NASA Robots presented by Newton's Apple: Activity: Program Your Partner - Guiding a Robot to Do a Simple Task
Robot Devices Connected to the Internet
Newton in Space - explains how Newton's Three Laws of Motion apply to spaceflight. You need a pdf viewer for this one.
International Space Station Challenge: Technical activities that explore the ISS
Space Shuttle and ISS Simulations: Launch, landing, docking - try them all!
The Incredible Edible Solar System: Have your solar system and eat it too!
Earth Moon and Mars Balloons: Scale Models
Aerology: The Study of Mars: Candy bar core samples
Edible Mars Spacecraft: More food science - yum
Strange New Planet: Planetary Exploration - how observant are you?
Mars Bingo: How good is your Mars vocabulary?

Robot Competitions