STEMing It Up

Want to host a robotics club at your school? This bundle of materials will help you get started! These resources were created to be used with LEGO Spike Prime Robot, however if you have a different robot you want to use with your club, these resources can easily be transferred to another robot (you would just need to edit the lesson slide pictures to reflect your robot builds and coding program). This resource includes 9 weeks (if meeting once a week) of club meeting activities and all the mate

Have your students excited to learn about history and science with this paper airplane challenge! Students will learn about the brothers as well as what it took to invent the first working airplane. They will then get to show their ability to problem-solve by creating their own paper airplane and testing it out, then making improvements to try and get it to fly farther each trial. Students will record data, results, and a reflection. Increase student engagement with this STEM challenge! Cont

Have your students show off their long division skills for 3-digit dividends by 1 digit divisors with and with out remainders. Students will work in partners or small groups to solve long division problems which will lead them to a code to program their DASH (by wonder workshop) robot. The activity is self checking. Students will sharpen their math skills while practicing their computer science skills. Contents:Lesson slides (Google and PDF)Long division problems worksheet (Google and PDF)DAS

Want your students to create their own weather forecast video to show their knowledge and understanding of weather? Try this activity! It is meant to be used with Canva.com, but I have included a Google slides version if you prefer that format (it just doesn't offer as many design and video editing options). Students will work in groups to record themselves forecasting the weather for the day as well as comparing to the forecast for the rest of the week and making a weather prediction for a sn

Use Wonder Workshop's DASH robot to help students experiment with how forces affect the motion of an object. Students will work in groups taking turns programming a DASH robot to test how different surfaces affect the motion (speed and distance) of an object. **Be sure to read the notes in the slides for additional lesson information for the teacher. Content:Lesson slides (Google and PDF)Experiment worksheet (Google and PDF) - for students to record their data, results, and reflectionsThere are

Want to engage your students with a fun holiday themed activity that incorporates Science force and motion concepts? Try this Sphero activity where students design and engineer a sleigh for their Sphero "Max" (from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas) to pull "presents." Students will work in teams to design, build, test, and redesign (if needed) to create a sleigh for "Max" to pull as many presents as possible. This lesson incorporates STEM, robotics, and core science standards all in one! *With a

Are your students learning about sound, vibrations, and how the ear works? This experiment has students test the basics of how an eardrum works by making a model eardrum out of a cup and testing sound vibrations using rice, salt, and pieces of paper so they can "see" the vibrations. Students work with a partner or small group to test various levels of sound with the rice, salt, and paper pieces. They fill in their lab sheets and then discuss their results with class. **Be sure to read the sli

Want to teach your students about what animals need to survive? How about human impact on nature and ecosystems? This lesson is a great way to do that as well as working on students' basic coding skills. This is a great lesson for around Earth Day or just when you are teaching animal needs or human impact in your curriculum. Students discuss what sea turtles need to survive and then engineer a shovel for their Wonder Workshop DASH robot, then work to program Dash to move around the "beach" ar

Help students explore the forces of push and pull by adding the high engagement of wonder workshop's DASH robot. Dash will do the heavy lifting and pushing. Students will work in groups to see how much Dash can push and pull. You will create a class graph to look at and discuss with the class. Contents:Lesson slides (Google and PDF version)WorksheetGoogle Sheet graph exampleThere are links to Canva version for you to use/edit

Need your students to practice comparing fractions with uncommon denominators? Need them to simplify fractions, find common denominators, draw models to compare fractions? This is the lesson for you! Students will work with a partner to complete a worksheet with fraction comparison problems. To increase student engagement and help them work on basic coding skills, their answers will lead them to a color code for a maze for Ozobot to travel through. If Ozobot doesn't make it through the maze t

Want your students to demonstrate their understanding of fractional parts in a fun way that incorporates basic coding and robots? This is the lesson for you! The high engagement of a robot pulls students into practicing their understanding of fractional parts. Students will work with a partner to complete a worksheet with questions about fractional parts of a whole. Their answer will lead them to a color code for the maze for Ozobot to follow. The activity is self checking (if Ozobot doesn't

Want to teach your students about changing states of matter? This activity will give students background information on states of matter and changing states as well as the chance to learn/grow their coding skills. Students will use the program Scratchjr to code their own scene of a change in matter. This resource was made with our young students in mind, but it could easily be adapted to older students using Scratch.mit.edu website. New to Scratchjr yourself? This resource has links to tutorials

Reading a Christmas Carol with your students this season? I have 6 computer based projects students can choose from to show their understanding and analysis of the setting, plot, characters, and author's word choice. If you aren't reading a Christmas Carol these choice board activities can easily be adapted to any text your students are reading. These activities were created to be done with Canva.com, but I have created Google slides versions if you would prefer or are more familiar with that

Have your students practice their adding and subtracting of fractions with this lesson. They will need to add and subtract mixed numbers and fractions with unlike denominators and simplify some answers. Students will work in partners or small groups to solve adding and subtracting of fractions problems. Their solutions to the problems will lead them to a code card giving them a line/lines of code to program their DASH (by Wonder Workshop) robot. The activity is self checking. Students will shar

Need your students to practice their fractions as division skills (standard 5.NF.3 Use fractions to model and solve division problems) and want a high engagement computer science connection? This is the lesson for you and your students! This lesson is meant to be used with the Ozobot robot. **You will need access to the robot to implement this lesson. Students can work in pairs or small groups to complete the fraction problems. Their answers lead them to the creation of their own Ozobot color

Are your students learning about thermal energy transfer? This lesson is a great way to have your students demonstrate their knowledge of the three types of thermal energy transfer by creating a stop motion video! Students can use either Canva or Google slides to create a stop motion video showing how conduction, convection, and radiation work. This lesson is a highly engaging, standards aligned lesson that will help students see how thermal energy transfer works as well as work on 21st century

Have your students show off their multiplication skills with factors up to 10. Students will work in partners or small groups to solve multiplication problems. Their products will lead them to a code card with a line(s) of code to program their DASH (by Wonder Workshop) robot. The activity is self checking. Students will sharpen their math skills while practicing their computer science skills. Contents:Directions for best practices and tipsLesson slides (Google, PDF and Canva versions)Multiplica

Help your students learn about the types of shelters different Native American tribes lived in based on the region of the United States they populated. After giving some background information, challenge students to work in groups to design and build a model shelter with specific materials provided by the teacher. This lesson walks you through the background information and then the challenge constraints. Contents:Lesson slides (Google and PDF)Worksheet (Google and PDF) - walks students thro

Want your students to learn about abstract art and a famous abstract artist as well as incorporate robots into creating their own original piece of art? Then you will want to try out this lesson! Students can work individually or as small groups to create an original piece of abstract art by either driving or coding a Sphero robot to move through paint on paper. (Sphero will not be harmed by moving through paint, though he will need to be cleaned up at the end of the lesson). Combine history,

Want to teach your students about an amazing African American astronaut for Black History Month or any other occasion when you are discussing American History or space? This activity will give students background information on an incredible astronaut in American history as well as the chance to learn/grow their coding skills. Students will use the program Scratchjr to code their own rocket to fly through space from planet to planet or the Earth to the moon. This resource was made with our young