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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading a story or novel with your students? 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. Students not only will show their understanding of these English standards, but will also be able to work on and improve their computer and design skills. These choice board activities can easily be used/adapted to any text your students are reading to assess students' understanding. These ac

Have your students practice their 2 digit addition skills by incorporating Sphero robots! Students work in groups of 4 taking turns drawing a target number, then use Sphero to "drive" to two numbers on the mat that will add up to their target number. Group members check each other's work, and if they get their math correct, they keep the target number. To give this a holiday twist, the target numbers are on ornaments and students are given a tree to decorate. Also, the lesson slides are dec

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