Underwater Robots
Designing a Scientific ROV
Grade Level:
9th - 12th grade (Engineering Design/Technology)
Lesson Description:
Scientific Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) are designed to overcome many challenges associated with deep-sea environments. In this activity, students will use the "Building SOI's New 4500m ROV" video playlist from Schmidt Ocean Institute to discover how engineers, designers, and scientists work together to develop scientific Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) capable of exploring and studying the deep sea.
Lesson Components:
Standards:
- Performance Expectation: HS-ETS1-1
- Disciplinary Core Ideas: ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems
- Principle 7: FCs a, b, d, f
Supporting Images/Videos:
Supplemental Materials:
Fact Sheets
- Remotely Operated Vehicles (pdf, 740 KB) | en español (pdf, 382 KB) | em português (pdf, 2.07 MB)
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (pdf, 382 KB) | en español (pdf, 286 KB) | em português (pdf, 571 KB)