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Build any structure with Strawbees reusable connectors and straws. The modification state never ends - just keep adding, updating or removing pieces. Experiment by adding different building materials or maker tools.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: K - 12

Create impressive stop-motion animations with this all-in-one kit. Stop-motion animation is a great team-building activity that encourages problem-solving, collaboration and creativity for kids at all experience levels. Software included.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Dash

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Get started rocking, rolling and coding with this clever robot. Dash can dance, light up, make sounds, respond to voices, navigate objects and more. Beginners and advanced programmers alike will enjoy playing and learning with Dash.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 8

Meet Edison, a modular robot that immerses kids in STEM concepts. It comes preloaded with functions that are ready to use right away. When students are ready for more of a challenge, they can create their own programs. Use as is or add LEGO bricks.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 12

Inspire kids to produce polished broadcasts, short movies, presentations and more. All the green screen technology a media lab or makerspace could need comes in this powerful kit. Easy-to-use editing software included.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, History, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • K'NEX

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Provide hands-on learning opportunities for all ages and skill levels. Every K'NEX building set is designed to maximize student engagement and STEM knowledge in today's busy makerspace, classroom or learning commons.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 8

Teach electronics and STEAM principles with this intuitive system. LittleBits are color-coded and labeled, and they easily snap together with magnets. All Bits work together, so you can combine pieces from different kits to invent something new.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 12

Learn, play and explore with the first app-enabled robotic ball. Sphero pairs to your smartphone or tablet, allowing kids to program simple commands. As their coding skills improve, they can move on to more complex instructions.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 12

There's no wrong way to build with Cubelets Robot Blocks. Inspire budding innovators to play, build and become better thinkers with this groundbreaking, magnetic robot construction system. There are thousands of combinations - no coding required.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 12

These smart little robots teach higher-level coding concepts and help kids develop logical reasoning skills. Ozobots are preprogrammed to read hand-drawn lines of color, moving along the lines using sensors to read the codes and act.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: K - 12

Grow big ideas with this open-ended, 3D building system. Brackitz building pieces connect at any point and any angle, enabling students to design anything they can imagine. As kids build, they develop design thinking and spatial reasoning skills.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: Pre-K - 5
  • Cue

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This robot's emotive AI technology engages kids learning to code. As students use Block or JavaScript programming to make Cue talk, text, laugh and navigate its surroundings, they're developing critical problem-solving skills.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 8

Brown Dog Gadgets are the creators of Bristlebots, Paper Circuits, Solar Bugs and Crazy Circuits. No matter how or what you create, Brown Dog Gadgets products can help you learn the basics of electronics, circuitry, and solar energy.

  • Subject: Art, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science, Technology
  • Grades: 2 - 12

Bring the fun world of cardboard construction to your makerspace!

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, History
  • Grades: 2 - 8

Squishy Circuits use conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits in a fun, hands-on format.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 6

Get kids fired up about learning with affordable STEM activities. TeacherGeek is a high-level, evidence-based solution that increases students' STEM skills by encouraging innovation and experimentation.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science, Technology
  • Grades: 2 - 12

These proprietary projects were developed exclusively for Demco Makerspace by Stanford Fellow and founder of Design Case Consulting, Mark Schreiber. These projects make use of some of the most popular makerspace products.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Coding, Design Thinking, Engineering, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: Pre-K - 12

Rokenbok Education is now Kid Spark Education, but the STEM labs are the same. Teach students to see like designers and think like engineers with comprehensive, project-based curriculum and carefully engineered 3D building blocks.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: Pre-K - 8

Wonderosity Kits are themed, bundled plans that can easily be integrated into your current curriculum or used on their own. Each kit includes four program plans, ideas to extend learning, access to downloadable support materials and resources, and more. Try out the sample lesson below, and learn more about the kits available for purchase at demco.com.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, History, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: 2 - 6

Developed by a team of practicing maker educators, this guide includes 23 hands-on challenges. Each scaffolded lesson has all the information you need to get started, including student and teacher guides, a supplies list, curriculum connections, and more. Try out the sample lesson below, and learn more about the full guide available for purchase at demco.com.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 7
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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.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 10
  • Duration: 0 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 5
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 3 - 5
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 3 - 5
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 3 - 5
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 4
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Engineering
  • Grades: 1 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Engineering
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 90 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Engineering
  • Grades: 1 - 4
  • Duration: 15 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Engineering
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 15 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Engineering
  • Grades: 2 - 7
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Engineering
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 45 - 120 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 12
  • Duration: 45 - 120 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 120 - 240 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, History
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 5
  • Duration: 60 - 120 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Math, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Math, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 120 - 240 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Computational Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Computational Thinking, Engineering, History, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 120 - 240 mins

  • Subject: Coding, Math
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 6
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 120 - 240 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 45 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Design Thinking
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 0 - 45 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Science
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

  • Subject: Coding, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 5
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 0 - 110 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 0 - 85 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, History
  • Grades: 3 - 11
  • Duration: 0 - 110 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Math, Science
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 7
  • Duration: 45 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 10
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 45 mins

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."

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 3 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 9
  • Duration: 0 - 180 mins

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.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 0 - 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking
  • Grades: 3 - 5
  • Duration: 0 - 150 mins

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.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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?”

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.”

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 45 mins

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.”

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 45 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 4
  • Duration: 45 - 90 mins

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

  • Subject: Art, Engineering, Math
  • Grades: 2 - 4
  • Duration: 45 - 90 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Engineering
  • Grades: 3 - 4
  • Duration: 45 - 90 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, History, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 5
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Art, Coding, Design Thinking, History
  • Grades: 2 - 5
  • Duration: 45 - 90 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking, Engineering
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

Create a model of a new piece of playground equipment.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering
  • Grades: 1 - 4
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, History
  • Grades: 2 - 6
  • Duration: 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, History
  • Grades: 2 - 6
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering
  • Grades: 3 - 12
  • Duration: 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 6
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

Create a replica of a dwelling from history.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, History
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Design Thinking, Engineering
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 45 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math
  • Grades: 2 - 6
  • Duration: 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, History
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Coding, Math, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 8
  • Duration: 30 - 60 mins

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

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 60 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 120 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 60 mins

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

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 180 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 120 mins

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.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 120 - 180 mins

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.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 2 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 - 45 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

Use this guide to teach students how to make a dinosaur friend with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

Use this guide to teach students how to make a reindeer with a light-up red nose using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

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

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

Use this guide to teach students how to make a sugar skull with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable T-Rex with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

Use this guide to teach students how to make a triceratops friend with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

Use this guide to teach students how to make a "turkminator" with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.

  • Subject: Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 6
  • Duration: 30 mins

This guide introduces the process of creating clay characters. Students will learn about armatures and view examples of animated films that employ them. They will then create and build characters for their own stop-motion animation videos.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

In this sample lesson, Mr. Maker asks students to help him by designing and building something that will help him clean some dirty windows.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 7
  • Duration: 60 mins

In this sample lesson, makers will design a symbol for their avatar (a digital representation of a themselves) and create a wristband or badge that incorporates circuits and LED lights.

  • Subject: Art, Design Thinking, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 6
  • Duration: 90 mins

Teach through experimentation! Students will construct a simple electric propeller car, then use iterative design to innovate and optimize for speed by changing blade shape, size, and material.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science, Technology
  • Grades: 3 - 12
  • Duration: 60 - 90 mins

Testing new project add functions

  • Subject: History
  • Grades: Pre-K - 5
  • Duration: 30 - 90 mins
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This unit of six lessons introduces the concepts and basic process for creating animated features. Age-appropriate content options are presented, making this unit scalable for grades K-12.

  • Subject: Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 0 mins

This unit of 5 lessons introduces the concepts and basic process for media production. Age-appropriate content analysis options are presented, making this unit scalable for grades K-12.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, Reading and Literacy, Technology
  • Grades: 1 - 12
  • Duration: 300 mins

Students explore coding with Sphero Edu app by creating basic shapes and letters, eventually tackling more complex challenges and calculating perimeter.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 180 mins

Five jungle expeditions put Sphero in scary and dangerous situations. Students must use problem-solving and coding skills to escape any dangers lurking around.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding, Computational Thinking, Math
  • Grades: 1 - 8
  • Duration: 300 mins

This series of four activities introduces students to the Sphero Edu app and helps them get familiar with block coding.

  • Subject: Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 240 mins

In this series of three activities, students learn the skills needed to navigate in alien terrain. Key mathematical and scientific concepts are integrated with coding. It is recommended that students complete the Sphero Blocks unit beforehand.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Engineering, Math, Science
  • Grades: 3 - 8
  • Duration: 360 mins

These 11 lessons are designed as a two-week introduction to help students become familiar with the learning tool and start creating with Cubelets across disciplines.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 1 - 3
  • Duration: 375 mins

Introduce students to the OzoBlockly coding language and the drag-and-drop code editor. Students will be prepared to create, load and run their own programs.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Coding
  • Grades: 2 - 12
  • Duration: 240 mins

This unit connects writing and coding. The Ozobot becomes the main character as students program it to act out a key task or behavior related to a fairytale.

  • Subject: Coding, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 11
  • Duration: 195 mins

This unit of five projects is designed to introduce new users to line- and color-based coding with Ozobot.

  • Subject: Coding, Computational Thinking, Math, Science
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 300 mins

Students practice comparison, measurement, and estimation as they’re introduced to a small character and begin to comprehend 2 dimensions - height and width.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 225 mins

Students are introduced to a need for mechanical advantage and efficient transportation by encountering the problem of moving items without wheels.

  • Subject: Design Thinking, Engineering, Math, Reading and Literacy
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 135 mins

Students begin exploring applied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and robotics. Students focus on intuitive concepts like how to make things strong and how to make things move. As a result, they gain confidence in their ability to use technology to design solutions to problems.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Design Thinking, Engineering, Science
  • Grades: 2 - 3
  • Duration: 780 mins

This unit of six lessons introduces the concepts and basic process for creating animated features. Age-appropriate content options are presented, making this unit scalable for grades K–12.

  • Subject: 21st Century Skills, Art, History, Math, Reading and Literacy, Science, Technology
  • Grades: K - 12
  • Duration: 540 mins