Tag: Cellular Construction Workshop

Find Yellow Programming Module

This programming lesson was designed to teach the basics of programming in Open Roberta through a “find yellow” food finding simulation program. Each activity is

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Virtual Physarum Chemotaxis

This activity is designed as a virtual experiment into physarum preferences by observing its chemotaxis. The lesson starts with a simple demo, where student predict

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Setting Up Your Robot

This contains information about how to access Open Roberta, the programming website used during the Cellular Construction Workshop. In includes how to set up an

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Programming Chemotaxis

This is a programming lesson that models cell movement up a chemical gradient, model with the chemotaxis mat that has a white to black gradient

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Physarum Experiment 2

This activity builds on the first physarum chemotaxis experiment. This iteration of experimentsis a process that scientists and cellular engineers engage in regularly. Using computational

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Physarum

This activity is designed as an open-ended exploration into physarum preferences by observing its chemotaxis. Students first observe that physarum will move towards oats,and then

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Phototaxis Program

This programming lesson was designed to quickly teach the basics of programming a LEGO Mindstorm Robot in Open Roberta. It teaches programming through a series

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Mystery Program

This is a quick demo to introduce students to the Lego Mindstorm EV3 and the concept of programming. In this lesson, students will make observations

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Intro to Programming

This programming lesson was designed to quickly teach the basics of programming a LEGO Mindstorm Robot in Open Roberta. It teaches programming through a series

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Intro to Bacterial Biosensors

This lesson offers students an introduction into biosensors, which is a sensor that uses a living organism or biological components to detect the presence of

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