STEMing It Up

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

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

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

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

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

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 a fun lesson to help your students explore and review synonyms as well as work on their coding skills? This lesson incorporates basic block coding of Wonder Workshop's DASH robot while reviewing/exploring the topic of synonyms. Students will work in groups of 3-4 to come up with synonyms for a given word and program Dash to travel on the word web, give a definition of the word and act it out! This fun, engaging lesson allows students to work on this English standard as well as coding skil

Students will identify similes and metaphors in a poem and then analyze one stanza of the poem with a partner. Once students are done analyzing they will program a DASH (wonder workshop) robot to not only recite their stanza of the poem, but also act out the meaning of the stanza to enhance the figurative language. Pairs will then do a gallery walk to see each DASH's performance. **Be sure to read the notes on each slide as they give additional information for the teacher. ContentsLesson slides

Have your students either review their math facts or reading skills (or both) with this fun, engaging review game powered by DASH robot (by wonder workshop). The students work in teams to answer the questions on the slides, if they get the question correct they program their Dash robot to launch a ball at the cups labeled with points. The team with the highest points at the end wins! The lesson slides include directions as well as the math and reading review questions. The math questions ar