STEM Lessons

7 Challenges, 7 Teams, 1 Winner! This coding olympics package includes everything you need to create a fun morning of coding with your students. Using Spheros, Ozobots and Scratch, teams rotate through 7 stations, earning points for how well they do at each station. Included in this package are the rules, handouts, an introduction SmartBoard file, the scoring booklet and a winner certificate.

A bundle of my coding lessons.

This lesson combines coding with math as students explore quadrilaterals using the Dash robot. Provided in this lesson are the slides to guide your students through this activity as well as the student handout that goes with it.

This lesson will guide students through the basics of using the online coding program Scratch. As they learn new techniques and skills in Scratch, they'll be developing a deeper knowledge of patterning with guided tasks, challenges, handouts and hands on activities in Scratch.

This lesson is a comprehensive introduction to using variables in the coding program Scratch. By tapping into student's love of video games, this lesson builds up their understanding of variables, culminating in them incorporating what they learned in the making of their own game. Embedded throughout are connections to the math curriculum as students learn how variables are used in algebra. Included in this lesson package is the lesson plan, slides for teaching the lesson, a minds-on activit

This lesson serves as an introduction to coding using the program Scratch. As students learn the basics of programming, they will also be learning about geometry, the cartesian plane, transformations and more. Included in this package are lesson plans for 3 days of activities, slides to guide yourself and the students, the required handout and a self-evaluation form.

In this lesson, students will learn to recognize the value of optimizing surface area when presented with a fixed volume. Students will achieve this using the two provided handouts which guide them through an inquiry based lesson in which they develop strategies for optimizing values.