littleBits Electronics

Build your own structure and then add cool circuits to add motion, sound, or light!

STEAM Activities for Grades 2+

Supported by Tech Force

Working with littleBits helps students incorporate electronics into ELA, and Art lessons as well as addressing curricular links to Science Electricity units.

Curriculum Connections:

Grade 2 Life Science: Animal Growth and Changes

AN2.1 Analyze the growth and development of familiar animals, including birds, fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, during their life cycles.

Grade 6 Physical Science: Understanding Electricity

EL6.3 Explain and model the properties of simple series and parallel circuits

Students in Action:

The World Runs on STEAM

LPSD Technology Integration Standards

Innovative Designer

Students use a variety of technologies with a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

Students:

  1. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

  2. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

  3. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.

  4. Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.


Computational Thinker

Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in a ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Students:

  1. Formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.

  2. Collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.

  3. Break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

  4. Understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.