• Explore Cubelets Activity Card Set

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This set of 21 activity cards is designed to support learning stations for small groups of two to three builders. Cards can be used by educators of any Cubelets skill level to guide learning in a student-driven learning center or classroom.

• 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.

• Overview of Scope & Sequence (Grades 4-6)

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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 in a small group.

• Investigating SENSE and ACT Cubelets

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Students investigate the unique properties of each SENSE and ACT Cubelet and discover how rotating the orientation of each Cubelet can drastically change robot behavior.

• 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.

• Investigating THINK Cubelets

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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.

• Investigating Two SENSES

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Students apply their understanding of Cubelets and investigate what happens when they use more than one SENSE Cubelet.

• 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.

• 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.

• Paper Coding

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Students use paper to change the behavior of a robot construction as a precursor to programming with Cubelets Blockly. This lesson allows students to combine their spatial reasoning and computational thinking skills into one robotics project.

• 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.

• Overview of Scope & Sequence (Grades 7-12)

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

• Investigating Cubelets

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Students investigate the unique properties of each Cubelet. First, students explore SENSE and ACT Cubelets, then they expand their investigation to include THINK Cubelets.

• Investigate Two SENSES

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Students apply their understanding of Cubelets and investigate what happens when they use more than one SENSE Cubelet.

• Steering Robots

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Students design steering robots using their understanding of SENSE Cubelets and THINK Cubelets. Steering robots take Cubelets to the next level, and prepare students for challenges that ask for robots to navigate their environment.

• Cubelets Challenges

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Students use critical thinking skills to build a specific robot based on a description. This lesson has students rotate between three different stations trying to address the same challenge with different combinations of Cubelets.

• Paper Coding

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Students use paper to change the behavior of a robot construction as a precursor to programming with Cubelets Blockly. This lesson allows students to combine their spatial reasoning and computational thinking skills into one robotics project.

• Robotic Petting Zoo

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