Dash

Grades: K-5

❤️ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy for young learners to use with block-based coding apps.

• Combines screen-based and hands-on activities to keep students engaged.

• Supports cross-curricular learning in STEM, art, and storytelling.

• Durable and classroom-ready for everyday use.

• Encourages teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking.

🔑 Key Features:

• Multiple sensors, including distance, light, and sound detection.

• Compatible with block coding apps like Blockly, Wonder, and Go.

• Responsive to voice commands and programmable actions.

• Rechargeable battery with long use time.

• Robust and kid-friendly design.

💡 Tech Integration Ideas:

• Program Dash to navigate mazes, fostering spatial reasoning and sequencing.

• Use Dash for storytelling, combining coding with literacy skills.

• Integrate Dash into science lessons with sensor-based experiments.

• Collaborate on group challenges to build problem-solving skills.

• Connect coding projects with math concepts like measurement and angles.

🎯 Connection to Standards:

• Computer Science (CSTA): Sequencing, algorithms, debugging, and computational thinking.

• ISTE Student Standards: Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator.

• Math: Measurement, geometry, spatial reasoning.

• ELA: Storytelling, sequencing, and communication skills.

Additional Resources:

• Cross-Curricular Lesson Library