This Professional Development bundle is perfect for getting started with databot in any learning environment! The Professional Development Bundle includes 4 kits which provides educators with the materials they need for training and practice as well as basic implementation in the classroom. In addition it includes licenses for two premium curriculum titles, Missions with LEGO® Robotics and The Discovery of Data Summer Camp, and a one year teacher account on databot Online, our Professional Learning Community and training platform. This bundle provides an extraordinary solution for your staff and program that will get educators up to speed in no time. Free shipping is included!
Sensor Starters (12 Lessons, 2 lessons each introducing scientific concepts through sensor play)
Open Content Library (Drone Missions, Data Mysteries, Design Challenges, Technical How-Tos for Arduino, IOT, and more)
GPT Lesson Generators (Custom trained GPTs for generating lessons to fit a wide variety of standards and learning objectives)
Software
Vizeey Smart App (IOS & Android & Chromebooks)
MicroBlocks® (Open source and free, browser based physical computing environment) Win/MacOS/Linux/Chromebooks
Arduino IDE (Free and Open Source software and hardware ecosystem, all libraries provided for databot sensors and physical computing)
Microsoft Excel Data Streamer (Windows 11, Office 360)
Python, Micropython and a variety of other tools can be used with databot.
K-16
databot can be incorporated into programs starting as early as Kindergarten as younger students will benefit significantly from live interaction with sensor data and being introduced to collecting and visualizing it. This is a foundation for building strong data literacy. Students and educators at all levels will benefit from this extraordinary technology whether you are learning to code, conducting science experiments, or learning how to apply data science practices to every day life.
Technical Requirements
For fast and easy sensor experiments the only technical requirement is to have a smart device (IOS or Android) such as a tablet, smartphone, or Chromebook with Bluetooth to connect to databot™. Download our free app, Vizeey™, connect to databot, and you’re up and running! MicroBlocks is a block coding environment that is web based and will run on Win/Mac/ChromeOS using an Edge or Chrome browser. Other environments such as Python, the Arduino IDE, Microsoft Excel, and others will have varied requirements which will depend on your particular use case. Contact us for details if you have questions.
Weight
3 lbs
Dimensions
6 × 5.5 × 6 in
Vizeey™ Smart App
Vizeey™ – Fast & Easy Data Collection, Visualization, and Analysis!
What is Vizeey?
The databot™ Discovery of Data camp comes with the free app Vizeey™ (IOS, Android, Chromebook) for visualizing, collecting, analyzing, and exporting data. This incredible app makes interacting with live sensor data a snap. Students will use Vizeey for visualizing and interacting with live data during the Discovery of Data experiences. Vizeey™ is so easy to use your students will be inspired to explore with data all the time!
Vizeey™ is preconfigured for you and your students to easily capture data from all of the onboard databot™ sensors. Custom experiments for the Discovery of Data Camp have been developed to make data analysis fun and easy for students. Simply tap an icon and the preconfigured experiment will load, you connect to your databot™ and begin the experiment!
How Does Vizeey™ Work?
The Vizeey images shown here are from the “You Spin Me Round” lesson. The first image is a gamified challenge in which a student holds databot on the top of their head and tries to turn at a perfect rate of 10 revolutions per minute (RPM). Prepare for a dizzying challenge! The second graph displays the RPMs for a Big Wheel challenge and students zoom in on data to determine the maximum speed reached by the wheel. Awesome and EASY explorations of real data!
Vizeey™ Video Demonstration – 60 Second Setup!
databot Curriculum
Our mission at databot is to make interacting with and understanding data and technology a beautiful, fun, and ubiquitous experience that crosses the traditional boundaries of all learning environments. The world is driven by data and we are driven to teach future generations how to use it for good. We create data powered technology and brilliant learning activities that empower students everywhere to think deeply, explore with passion, and solve our planetary scale challenges.
databot was created to function as a highly versatile, multi-purpose tool capable of enhancing activities in all the core sciences as well as STEAM topics such as coding and physical computing. We offer various types of lesson plans and activities that range from quick and easy starters to more in-depth classroom explorations. In addition, there are a number of how-to’s and getting started tutorials for using databot in other applications such as Excel, programming with MicroBlocks® or Python, etc. Read on to learn more about the resources available to educators using databot.
Sensor Starters
databot Sensor Starters are a great way for students (and educators) to quickly get familiar with the sensors on board databot and their capabilities. Each sensor starter includes background information that explains how the sensor works, what it is sensing, what are the units used, how it is used in the real world, and even where it lives on databot! Once background information has been reviewed, there are two engaging activities that immediately put students into engaging, interactive experiences with live sensor data!
Explore Sensor Starters in the Lessons & Activities section of the website and see how easy and how much fun science with sensors can be!
Coding Starters
Easy to follow Coding Starter activity cards walk educators and students, step-by-step, through beginning to advanced topics. Each Coding Starter includes 2-3 activities that can be done in about 15 minutes and focus on specific skills over a sequence of time.
Explore Coding Starters in the Lessons & Activities section of the website and see how easy and how much fun coding for science with sensors can be!
Explorations
databot Explorations are one-hour units designed to meet specific learning objectives and standards across a wide variety of subjects ranging from physics and chemistry to earth science and biology. These Explorations provide you with comprehensive materials to prepare for your lesson:
Background information
Pre-configured experiments that you load into the Vizeey app
Four experiments consisting of two short activities, a l0nger experiment, and a challenge / extension.
Additional resources for deeper investigations
Guiding questions for discussion
Data sheets
Step-by-step instructions
Standards alignments
Tour databot Explorations in the Lessons and Activities section of our website to to see an Exploration module in-depth.
Discovery of Data Summer and Enrichment Camp
databot Camp curriculum provides a detailed, day-by-day roadmap for facilitating engaging, unique, data driven STEAM experiences. Ideal for after-school and summer camp programs these camp manuals are designed to make implementation simple for staff members ranging from high school volunteers to professional educators. The daily guides and resources provide all the details you will need to guide discussion, facilitate awesome experiences with students as they explore math, physics, chemistry, and earth science through physical interactions with sensor data.
Missions
databot Missions are career oriented experiences that pose various real-life scenarios that students must solve through the creative application of data collection and analysis. Missions are designed around various STEAM devices popular in classrooms such as the following “Volcanic Vistas” designed around the popular Tello drone.
Another mission example is the 130+ page databot Missions with LEGO® Robotics curriculum which provides a comprehensive manual for LEGO® Robotics educators to integrate data collection and analysis using sensors into their current program.
Detailed How-Tos and Technical Guides
Whether you are looking to use databot fast and simple out of the box using Vizeey or an uber-geek looking to create an automated greenhouse complete with IOT dashboards and sensor controlled watering systems databot has what you need. Visit our technical library for details on coding environments, software integrations such as Excel or Python, and extensive documentation on pinouts, datasheets, and the technical information you need for creating just about anything you can imagine.
Videos
These are just a few examples of how people are using databot™. Visit our Youtube Channel for more!
Meet databot™ 2.0!!
Missions with LEGO® Robotics
Drone Lovers Rejoice!
Hackers, Geeks, and Creators Group Hug!
Science Adventures with Sakshi!
Even Pirates Love databot™!
Visit our Youtube Channel to watch databot™ fans all over the world exploring data in hundreds of exciting ways!
Table of Contents: Camp
Discovery of Data Summer Camp
Table of Contents
Day 1: So Inclined!
Math and science come together in this extraordinary exploration of angles using the force of gravity as an inclinometer. Students catch angles, measure with sensors, and dance the limbo!
Day 2: You Spin Me Round
Spin to win in this gyroscope powered exploration of rotational speed, 3D axes, and some truly dizzying concepts brought to life through tornadoes, spinning games, big wheels and more.
Day 3: Under Pressure
Explore the mysteries of air pressure and its impact on everything from bomb cyclones to animal behavior as you calculate the weight of air, etch-a-sketch with volume, and solve a data mystery that ends with a bang!
Day 4: Up, Up, and Away
Students use an altimeter to explore the remarkable relationship between altitude and air pressure by using Google Earth, running stairs, calculating accuracy, and more.
Day 5: Hunting the Wild VOCs
Students take on Indoor Air Quality investigations with the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) sensor!
Day 6: Lighten Up!
Students investigate the color and intensity of light in this eye opening exploration of the characteristics of light using ambient light and color sensors.
Day 7: Laws of Attraction
Solve the mystery of why opposites attract in this exciting journey through magnetic fields using the databot magnetometer.
Day 8: Mister Moisture
Using the humidity sensor students learn about calibration, moisture in the air, chemical reactions that can extract moisture from the air and more!
Day 9: Don’t Hesitate, Accelerate!
Students master 3D cartesian coordinates and the force of acceleration as they match acceleration graphs, leap, twist, hop, and cavort in this highly interactive exploration of the databot accelerometer.
Day 10: Ninja Physics!
Joust with gravity and acceleration in this thrilling blend of physics and Ninja Training. Can you move with zero acceleration?Can you balance gravity in the palm of your hand?Use the databot accelerometer to find out!
Day 11: Measurement Madness!
Leaping LASERs! Students explore high-tech measurement methods in this fast paced exploration of the Time of Flight proximity sensor.
Day 12: Ready, Set, Reaction!
Reactants, products, and fizzing fun all come together in this databot™ dive into the science behind chemical reactions with temperature and CO2 sensors.
Table of Contents: Missions with LEGO®
databot™ Missions with LEGO® Robotics
Table of Contents
Mission 1: Spin Cycle
An accessibility company has developed a prototype of a new type of wheelchair that includes a variety of autonomous features to assist persons with disabilities. The wheelchair under development must have precise control of rotational speed for cornering and turning. Too fast a speed could potentially cause harm and too slow a speed is inefficient. Your team has been hired as Accessibility Engineers to develop the code to deliver a precise rotational speed of 6 RPM for this new wheelchair design. Your mission is to prepare and test the code and refine its accuracy using the data visualization app Vizeey™ and databot™’s gyroscope to measure the chair’sangular velocity.
Mission 2: CO2 Alarm!
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key indicator of indoor air quality (IAQ). Your team of indoor air quality professionals has been hired to study the air quality in a fitness center using a CO2 sensor and to design an alarm system that will alert center staff if indoor air quality is being compromised!
The LEGO® Spike Prime system does not include CO2 detection capabilities so you must engineer a system integration that will enable communications between two separate systems: the CO2 monitoring system and the alarm system. In this mission students use both the Spike Prime coding environment as well as the MicroBlocks® coding environment to control databot™.
Mission 3: Putter Perfection
Your team has been hired as biomechanical engineers by a professional golfer experiencing a career slump – her putting game is off! You will help her by demonstrating how to deliver perfect putts to a target 6′ away. Do this by adjustingthe force of impact from LEGO® motor speed and swing angle. Work as a team. The data scientist will evaluate each round of code and the coder will adjust the force accordingly until the putting is “perfection.”Two forces that affect a golf ballare gravity and friction.Putting combines mass (the club head) and acceleration (the swing) to deliver a force to the ball to overcome gravity and friction.
Mission 4: Ferris Wheel
A new Ferris Wheel is being installed in an amusement park. Your team of engineers and test equipment specialists have been hired to test and adjust the ride speed for comfort and ride duration for this attraction. The Ferris wheel should provide a smooth and stable ride for passengers, with minimal vibration or wobble of the passenger cars and no discomfort to the riders. Passengers should also be able to enjoy a panoramic view of the surrounding area. In the attraction, the passenger cars are attached to the wheel’s outer rim in such a way that all the cars move in a circle. A uniform circular motion is a periodic motion that repeats at certain equal intervals of time. The angular (rotational) and linear velocity of the car in such motion is related to its period and frequency of rotation.
Mission 5: Whirlpool!
A small whirlpool has begun to form near the ocean shore where people often surf. Your team has been hired as Geophysicists to study the whirlpool and its potential threat to human life.
Your team will use Vizeey™ and the databot™ gyroscope to research and document scientific data regarding the speed of the water at which the whirlpool can pull a person into the vortex. The strength of a whirlpool can be measured using rotational speed measurements which can indicate the energy and intensity of the vortex.
Mission 6: Morse Code
Your team of experienced cryptographers has been invited to design and test a new communication network for exchanging information between the staff of two research laboratories.
Data encryption and decryption are essential techniques used to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. A company that specializes in highly sensitive medical research needs your team to create a secure communications device that transmits messages using the optical transmission method. One team member will encrypt and transmit data and the other will receive and decrypt using Morse Code as the encryption key.
Mission 7: G-Force!
Space tourism becomes reality as the International Space Station opens up for space tourists! As experienced Simulator Technicians and Mechanical Engineers, you have been hired to design a machine that will prepare space travelers for the high levels of G Forces expected during the flight. This type of training helps astronauts to prepare for the changes in gravitational forces they will experience during launch, reentry, and spaceflight.
For the mission, your team will build a centrifuge to train future astronauts to withstand 3.5 Gs of acceleration by measuring the acceleration imparted by the centrifuge using the databot™ accelerometer.
Mission 8: Getting Warmer!
Global warming is caused by human activity, but it is possible to mitigate the effects and reduce the negative impacts on our climate. Greening can help prevent climate change. Your team has been hired as Environmental engineers to determine the best trees to plant based on carbon sequestration.
For this mission, using a machine designed to provide perfect control over inclination, the databot™ inclinometer, and a mathematical formula your team will calculate the amount of carbon stored in a particular tree by measuring its height and girth.
What is Vizeey?
How Does Vizeey™ Work?
Our mission at databot is to make interacting with and understanding data and technology a beautiful, fun, and ubiquitous experience that crosses the traditional boundaries of all learning environments. The world is driven by data and we are driven to teach future generations how to use it for good. We create data powered technology and brilliant learning activities that empower students everywhere to think deeply, explore with passion, and solve our planetary scale challenges.
Day 1: So Inclined!
Day 2: You Spin Me Round
Day 3: Under Pressure
Day 4: Up, Up, and Away
Day 5: Hunting the Wild VOCs
Day 6: Lighten Up!
Day 7: Laws of Attraction
Day 8: Mister Moisture
Day 9: Don’t Hesitate, Accelerate!
Day 10: Ninja Physics!
Day 11: Measurement Madness!
Day 12: Ready, Set, Reaction!
Mission 1: Spin Cycle
Mission 2: CO2 Alarm!
Mission 4: Ferris Wheel
Mission 5: Whirlpool!
Your team of experienced cryptographers has been invited to design and test a new communication network for exchanging information between the staff of two research laboratories.
Mission 7: G-Force!
Mission 8: Getting Warmer!
