Grade 3

• Using Stop-Motion Animation Across Curriculum

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This guide for educators is filled with ideas for integrating stop-motion animation across curriculum and subjects. Video links to sample projects are included.

• Media Literacy

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This guide introduces the key concepts of media literacy and illustrates the need for us to become better informed about mass media. Students will view and discuss examples of advertising and critically analyze an animated film.

• An Introduction to Animation

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This guide explores the history and types of animation and introduces the many forms of stop-motion animation. Students will watch examples of stop-motion and direct-on-film animation and discuss the differences between them.

• Overview of Technology and Principles of Animation

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This guide provides an overview of the basic equipment required for stop-motion animation. Students will learn about timing and the Three Main Principles of Animation. They will also make a flipbook and discover the Twelve Principles of Animation.

• Storyboarding and Storytelling

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This guide outlines the important stage of "planning" and introduces the process of storyboarding and storytelling. Students will view examples of each other's work and learn the process of creating a collaborative storyboard.

• Creating a Set

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This guide offers ideas to help students make 2D or 3D sets or backgrounds for their animated videos. Students will also learn about lighting techniques and critique a scene from an animated film using the elements and principles of design.

• Dash's Road Trip

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In this set of three activities, students use Blockly coding to complete the challenges centering around Dash's road trip. Cross-curricular connections are included, as well as planning and reflection worksheets.

• Random Acts of Kindness

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In this collection of friendship-themed challenges, students will get to know Dash's and Dot's capabilities and work with Blockly code. Designing Mazes for Robots is the classroom feature.

• Flex Your Creativity Muscles

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In this collection of challenges, students use Blockly coding to help Dash and Dot go on adventures, play dress-up and become storybook characters. Storytelling and Geography With Robots is the classroom feature.

• Coding Is More Fun With Friends

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In this collection of challenges, students use Blockly coding to help Dash and Dot play classic games such as duck, duck, goose; red rover; hot potato and more. The Robot Olympics is the classroom feature.

• Meet Edison: An Introduction to EdBlocks

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This easy-to-follow series of 23 activities allows students to work independently, gradually learning about the Edison robot and EdBlocks, a robot programming language. Some activities require the EdBlocks app.

• Media Literacy

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This guide provides the tools you need to introduce students to media literacy. Students will view examples of advertising and discuss the messages conveyed, examine the Key Concepts of Media Literacy and critically analyze an animated film.

• Storyboarding and Storytelling

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This guide introduces students to the process of storyboarding. Students will work collaboratively to identify a topic for their group video production and create a storyboard, as well as learn about camera angles and point of view.

• Chroma Keying

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This guide will help you introduce students to the technique of chroma keying using a green screen. Students will analyze video clips, then do their own portrait study using chroma key techniques.

• Video Production Teamwork & Planning

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In this guide, students will learn the terms and jargon utilized in the broadcast/video production industry, as well as the value of group work and collaboration.

• Interviewing: The Art of Asking Questions

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This guide will help students develop strong interview skills. Students will learn how news develops from people's natural curiosity about the people, places, events and situations of daily life and generate news story ideas from their own lives.

• K'NEX Education Maker Kit Building Basics

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This manual contains basic instructions and 15 build plans that are aligned to the 863-piece K'NEX Large Maker Kit containing rods, spacers, connectors, separators and wheels.

• K'NEX Education Maker Kit Air Models

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This is a collection of seven K'NEX build plans for air travel models, including a hot air balloon, hang glider, UFO, helicopter and more.

• K'NEX Education Maker Kit Creatures

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This is a collection of 14 K'NEX build plans for creatures, including a butterfly, spider, giraffe, camel, cat and more.

• K'NEX Education Maker Kit Sea Models

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This is a collection of 19 K'NEX build plans for sea life and sea travel, including a battleship, seaplane, windsurfer, seahorse, sea turtle and more.

• K'NEX Education Maker Kit Structures

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This is a collection of 14 K'NEX build plans for structures, including a treehouse, igloo, palace, car wash and more.

• K'NEX Education Maker Kit Miscellaneous Models

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This is a collection of 15 K'NEX build plans for miscellaneous objects, including a gravitron, guitar, starburst, spinning top and more.

• littleBits STEAM Student Set Teacher's Guide

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This guide introduces brainstorming and the littleBits Invention Cycle and provides detailed instructions for four guided and four open challenges. Sections on classroom management and troubleshooting are also included.

• The Librarian's Guide to littleBits & STEAM

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This guide is designed to help you get started with littleBits and the STEAM movement. Topics include organization, fixed stations vs. workshops, and design challenges. You'll also get tips from other K-12, public and academic librarians.

• Planets Quiz

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Sphero quizzes students on their knowledge of the solar system, and afterward students can code their own quiz on a topic of their choice.

• Secret Message

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Students learn about the history of Morse code, learn how to decode communications, and use Morse code to create and share a message.

• Area of a Rectangle

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Students use Sphero's sensor and location graph feature to calculate the area of a rectangle in various unit measures and discover how the calculation of area is used in real-world situations.

• Draw 2: Spelling

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On the Draw Canvas on the Sphero Edu app, students draw letters, spell words and navigate around obstacles with Sphero.

• Draw 1: Shapes

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This lesson introduces students to the Draw Canvas on the Sphero Edu app by having them draw shapes that represent code.

• Maze Mayhem

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Students program Sphero to navigate their own original maze. They must gather data about the best route through a maze and ?gure out how to build a program so Sphero can successfully navigate.

• Sphero Edu Educator's Guide

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This 16-page guide contains everything you need to know to get the (Sphero) ball rolling. Read about how Sphero is being used in and out of the classroom, learn about the Sphero Edu app and get activity ideas and classroom management tips.

• Sphero Edu Makerspace Guide

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Use this guide to help establish an instructional program that leverages Sphero in a makerspace, supporting everything from dedicated maker projects aligned with curriculum to original student-driven inventions to after-school programs and free play.

• Sphero Run

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A "marble run" is a course in which a marble starts at one end and travels by gravity down a set path, encountering obstacles and sometimes making things happen as it passes. Students will design a "Sphero run" that works in a similar fashion.

• Bridge Challenge

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Students build a bridge using classroom materials and then program Sphero to drive across. This challenge can also include researching different types of bridges and incorporating those concepts into the designs.

• Chariot Challenge

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Students learn about chariots as they were used throughout history, design and create a unique Sphero chariot, then create a program for Sphero to navigate the racecourse. This project also requires common building materials like K'NEX.

• Draw 3: Perimeter

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• Jungle (De)Bug

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Sphero brought a few "bugs" back with it from the jungle. Students will debug a program in order to get Sphero working again.

• Jungle Blocks

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There are all kinds of noises in the jungle chasing Sphero. Students use loops, conditionals and comparators to create a random sound generator called Jungle Toss to throw the predators off the trail.

• Jungle Code

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After making some fantastic discoveries in the jungle, it's now time to go home. Students program Sphero to communicate with base camp and arrange a pickup.

• Jungle Draw

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Sphero has been sent to explore a remote part of the jungle. Students' challenge is to program Sphero through different parts of the jungle undetected using the Draw Canvas on the Sphero Edu app.

• Jungle Maze

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Sphero is in the jungle and hears something behind it that it needs to escape. To navigate the path to a shortcut, students must program Sphero with the Block Canvas on the Sphero Edu app.

• Intro & Loops

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Students get an overview of the Sphero Edu app, learn how to create programs using block coding, and gain an understanding of loops and operators.

• If/Then, Else

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Students learn their first "if/then, else" condition by building a fun game where they throw Sphero and guess animal sounds.

• Lights

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Students build a spinning top program using the concepts of normalization and absolute value.

• Variables

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Students use variables to build a Hot Potato game powered by Sphero. They will also learn about "loop until" and randomness to bring this classic game to life.

• Space Academy: Part 1

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In this lesson, students learn the skills necessary to navigate Mars terrain. They will explore balanced forces, introduce the mathematic concept of scale and understand how Sphero moves across different surfaces.

• Space Academy: Part 2

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In this lesson, students explore unbalanced forces and begin to engineer their first Sphero-powered Mars rover, drawing upon their understanding of force and movement to design and build the rover.

• Space Academy: Part 3

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In this final lesson, students must bring their understanding of force, scale, and block programming together to help their team make it through the Martian mission simulation.

• Overview of Scope & Sequence (Grades 1-3)

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This unit overview gives educators a high-level view of lesson progression, lesson objectives and student assessment.

• Cubelets Open Play

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Students use their natural curiosity to explore Cubelets while working with a partner or in a small group.

• Robot Bodies & Human Bodies and Cubelets Sort

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Students practice turning the Battery on and off and talk about what humans and robots have in common, and what makes humans and robots different. Students play Red Light, Green Light to practice SENSING and ACTING.

• Investigating SENSE and ACT Cubelets

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Students investigate the unique properties of each SENSE and ACT Cubelet. They create robots and name them, practice counting how many Cubelets are in their robot, and try to use SENSE, ACT and Battery accurately when they are talking to peers.

• Designing 3- and 4-block Robots

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Starting with a Drive Bot, students experiment with building robots that use more than one ACT Cubelet. Students brainstorm possible applications for the robots they build.

• Modeling Robots

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Modeling happens in all different ways, but the most common is to draw a picture of what you observe. In this lesson, students will practice drawing pictures of robots they build.

• Investigating Two SENSES

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Students investigate what happens when they add robot blocks to constructions that they already understand. First, students will build with two or more ACT Cubelets, then students explore what happens when they use more than one SENSE Cubelet.

• Investigating THINK Cubelets

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Students now have a fluent understanding of how SENSE and ACT Cubelets work together in robot constructions, so this lesson adds THINK Cubelets to open a whole new level of Cubelets play.

• Cubelets Challenges

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Students will use critical thinking skills to build a specific robot based on a description. By this point, students should be fluent with Cubelets, so this lesson is intended to push student groups to work together to build more complex robots.

• Act Out Cubelets

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Students make 3-block robot constructions, then another group acts out the robot the first group built.

• Cubelets Storytelling: Parts 1 & 2

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Students build robots and create a story that includes their robot as a character. This lesson is designed for written storytelling, so you will need to adapt it if you'd like your students to tell their stories verbally.

• Shape Tracer 1

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Students learn OzoBlockly concepts through 10 levels of game play, followed by writing their own tutorial in Level 11.

• Shape Tracer 2

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In this lesson, students use what they learned about creating a block-based program in Shape Tracer 1 to practice creating loops.

• Pair Programming

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This lesson teaches students how to code as a team and the differences between the tasks of a Navigator and a Driver.

• Stay on the Road

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This lesson introduces students to blocks from the OzoBlockly advanced mode. Students learn how to program Ozobot Bit and Evo to improve accuracy and maintain a straight course.

• Turn Accurately

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In this lesson, students learn to program the Ozobot to make a 90- degree turn. By discovering how to tune Ozobot in detail, students will develop troubleshooting skills and gain deeper control of their Ozobot's abilities.

• Ozobot Clean Energy Cruise

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In this lesson, students will use directional OzoCodes to guide their Ozobot on a path to visit clean, renewable energy sources.

• Coding Dash to Bulldoze: Problem Solving Using Geometry and Measurement

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• Ozobot Dance-Off

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Using OzoBlockly, students will write a program to make their Ozobot perform a dance routine.

• Fairytale - Lesson 1

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In this two-part lesson, students connect coding with literature after reading a not well-known fairytale and programming Ozobot to act as the main character. This lesson includes a guided activity and an independent activity, each taking 55 minutes.

• Fairytale - Lesson 2

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Students write their own fairytale and program Ozobot to become the main character in this two-part lesson. This activity has two parts, the first taking 30-55 minutes and the second taking 55-90.

• Magellan's Journey

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In this lesson, students will assemble paper continents and program Ozobot to follow Magellan's path. This activity has two parts, each taking 55 minutes.

• What Is Ozobot?

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Introduce students to Ozobot and its line-following and color-sensing visual coding. Students will learn how to give commands to make Ozobot navigate paths to arrive at a finish point. They will also make real-world connections by identifying similarities to other line-following robots.

• How Does Ozobot Make Decisions?

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Through coding Ozobot, students will learn about probability and randomness, getting a glimpse into the field of statistics. Students will then code Ozobot to arrive at a specific point in a warehouse.

• How Many Codes Can Ozobot Read?

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In this lesson, students will learn the guidelines for using static and flash codes and find a solution to the "Traveling Salesman Problem." Within this lesson there are nine optional challenges that become progressively more difficult. Allow 45-60 minutes per challenge, depending on age and experience.

• Ozobot Coding Basics

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Students will help Ozobot get its groove by writing, debugging and running a program to make it dance a specific step with the OzoGroove app.

• Coding and Geometry

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This geometry-based program gives students a glimpse into the field of computer programming and related careers. Students will analyze and decompose geometric figures and translate them into Ozobot movements by coding Ozobot to write the word "Ozo."

• Create an Ozobot Game Level

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In this lesson, you will introduce the concept of programming and allow students to practice coding by creating their own game level modeled after the OzoBlockly games, fun coding games for Ozobot.

• Space Exploration Game

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In this lesson, students design a game board with events in the history of exploration of space. Using student-created gameplay rules, players program Ozobot Bit to correctly travel the timeline. This project is designed for three one-hour sessions.

• Who Can Find the Pot of Gold?

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This is a fun game that challenges your students to program Ozobot to find the pot of gold. You can even make a race out of it and see who can get there first! Students will work on their ability to decipher and think "in code" while they are playing this game. The activity can be adjusted to your students' abilities, making it perfect for all ages.

• Color Code Basic Training

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Introduce students to robots, how they work, and the places they show up in our lives. Use color sequencing to introduce the coding language of Ozobot. After learning the basics, students face challenges to practice skills.This activity is designed for three sessions of 50 minutes each.

• Unit 2, Lesson 2: One Wheel On The Cart

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Students will explore the ideas of work, effort, and enhancing transportation with wheels (mechanical advantage). At the close of this lesson, students will be able to describe how wheels help do work.

• Unit 2, Lesson 1: Lets Move It

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Students will explore the idea of work, effort, and moving items. This lesson will lead them to ask, “How can we do this work faster/easier?”

• Unit 1, Lesson 1: How Big In 2 Dimensions

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Students explore two dimensions, compare a figure to common objects to understand height and width dimensions, measure and record data and estimate in units. “I can” statements that students should be able to do after completing this lesson include: “I can describe how big something is by using height and width.” “I can compare size by thinking about everyday objects.” “I can use measurement data to estimate in another unit size.”

• Unit 1, Lesson 2: How Big In 3 Dimensions

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Students continue practicing spatial thinking and vocabulary as they reconsider the figure from Lesson 1, now understanding the third dimension and using Brackitz unit planks to measure height, width, and depth.

• Unit 1, Lesson 3: Free Our Friend

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Students continue with the gingerbread character as their building and engineering inspiration. Given an immediate problem to help solve, students have a play-based introduction to solving problems by designing and building devices.

• Unit 1, Lesson 4: Creature Comforts

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Students continue their play-based introduction to solving problems by designing and building to the Gingerbread character’s special needs. Students continue to consider dimensions as they design health, safety, comfort, and recreation items for a creature that’s much smaller than them.

• Unit 1, Lesson 5: Moving Around

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Students will continue to collaborate as they design and consider what they make relates to more than one need. “I can design with competing factors in mind.” and “I know a design will not be perfect the first time.” and “I can count simple combination options given a small number of items and ways to arrange them.”

• Unit 2, Lesson 5: Four Wheels On The Cart

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This lesson leads students to add a fourth wheel as they continue to experiment with mechanical advantage, transportation, and designing with constraints and criteria.

• Strawbees Balance Challenge For Grades 2-4

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In this lesson, students create seesaw tracks using Strawbees, then use Quirkbot to transport a ping-pong ball across as many tracks as possible before hitting the ground.

• Introduction To Strawbees For Grades 2-4

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This lesson introduces students to the different Strawbees connectors. Working in teams, students brainstorm an idea and then create a physical model.

• Create Light-Up Wearables With Strawbees & Quirkbot, Grades 3-4

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This lesson teaches students the basics of flow programming with Quirkbot CODE. Students will design a wearable with Strawbees and illuminate it with Quirkbot and LED lights.

• Matter Of State

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Create a symbol that depicts a unique characteristic of your state.

• Family Tree

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Create an interactive fabric square that tells others about your family when each component is touched.

• Message Delivery Bot

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Students will design and program a robot that will deliver messages to two opposite locations in the room.

• Play Time!

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Create a model of a new piece of playground equipment.

• Stick The Launch

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Create a catapult that can launch a Velcro-covered ping-pong ball to hit a Velcro-covered target four meters away. The catapult launching mechanism must be self-propelling.

• Old Glory

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Create a replica of the American flag that moves, lights up, or makes sound.

• Wiggle-Bot Parade

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Transform your TeacherGeek Wiggle-Bot into a parade float, and compete for awards in different categories.

• Strawbees® Tower

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Using only Strawbees, construct the tallest tower in class with the ability to hold a golf ball at the top for two minutes.

• Squishy Circuits Design

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Students will design a Squishy Circuits product based on the “client’s” specifications.

• Home Sweet Home

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Create a replica of a dwelling from history.

• Gears And Goals

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Modify and code a robot to push a ball down a field and then propel it into a goal.

• Feeding Fido

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Create a machine that will allow dogs to dispense either food or water without their owner's help.

• Bristlebot Home

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After making a Brown Dog Gadgets Bristlebot, create a home for it.

• Famous Invention

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Re-create a famous invention that has the ability to perform at least some component of the original invention.

• Toy Take Apart And Hacking

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Take apart a battery-operated or electronic toy. Using the toy's most basic parts, prototype a new toy, game, or invention.

• Robotic Petting Zoo

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Create an animal for a robotic petting zoo. The animal must have at least one moving part.

• Unit 2, Lesson 3: Two Wheels On The Cart

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Students will practice what they learned about transportation, work, effort, and mechanical advantage with more wheels, while still being challenged with a design constraint.

• Unit 2, Lesson 4: Three Wheels On The Cart

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Students will practice what they learned about transportation, work, effort, and mechanical advantage with more wheels, while still being challenged with a design constraint. At the end of this lesson, students will better understand that creating stability/safety when enabling speed is desirable.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 1: Introduction To ROK Blocks

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In this lesson, students will explore the engineering materials that are included in the ROK Blocks Mobile STEM Lab and become familiar with the name and function of each.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 2: See Like A Designer, Think Like An Engineer

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This Kid Spark lesson will give students confidence in their ability to see like a designer and think like an engineer. Students will discover there are many different ways to solve a problem and anyone can contribute towards a design.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 3: Design Perspectives

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In this lesson, students will learn about size and dimension as they review 2D drawings and 3D physical objects. Students will learn how to measure in metric units using Kid Spark engineering materials.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 4: Making Things Strong

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In this lesson, students will learn how to use various engineering materials and construction techniques to make structures that are strong and stable.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 5: Making Things Move

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In this lesson, students will learn how Kid Spark engineering materials can be used to create different types of movement.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 6: The Design & Engineering Process

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This lesson will give students the skills and confidence to develop design ideas and bring them to life. Students will learn how to apply essential steps in a design & engineering process to produce creative, collaborative solutions to STEM challenges.

• Engineering Basics, Lesson 7: ROK Creek Bridge

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This activity is designed to introduce students to the basics of bridge design. Students will learn about the different components of a bridge, the forces acting on a bridge, and how different bridge designs work. Students will apply knowledge they have previously learned as they progress through the design project.

• How To Create A Bristlebot

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Support STEM learning by teaching students how to create their own vibrating Bristlebots in minutes. Simple to create and fun to play with, Bristlebots make a great project for students of all ages.

• How To Create A Solar Bug

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Use this guide to teach students how to create a solar bug. Students will love this simple fun-filled craft project that uses the power of the sun to move a vibrating motor.

• Paper Circuits: Black Cat

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Teach students how to make adorable black cats with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Cephalopod

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Use this guide to teach students how to create a fun light-up cephalopod using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Christmas Tree

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Use this guide to teach students how to create a light-up Christmas tree using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Flower

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Use this guide to teach students how to create pretty light-up flowers using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Franken Terrier

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Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable "Franken" terrier with glowing bolts using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Grumpy Ghost

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Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorably grumpy Halloween friend with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Holiday Candle

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Use this guide to teach students how to make a holiday candle with glowing LED flame using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Jack-O-Lantern

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Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable Halloween friend with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Paulie Penguin

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Use this guide to teach students how to make a cute penguin with a glowing LED star using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

• Paper Circuits: Pterodactyl

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