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Curriculums
Complete Raspberry Pi Curriculum at: https://curriculum.raspberrypi.org/
Sharing with Students
Follow this super detailed guide to get familiar with all of the popular beginning possibilities of the Pi. Great resources to answer all your questions, spark interest and creativity and even encourage deep-dive learning.
The Raspberry Pi annual 2018 edition is packed with great, kid-friendly Pi-based projects. From word puzzles to whoopie cushions and lots of fun in between, this is a great (and printable) resource to share with students.
The worldwide club for free, volunteer-led coding clubs geared toward children ages 9-13.
Raspberry Jams are maker-centered events that can be formal or informal. The one thing they have in common is that they serve as rally points for people excited about DIY computing with Raspberry Pi.
Here’s a roundup of some kid-friendly videos.
One of the really cool things about Raspberry Pi is that it is an open platform. Anyone is free to build on the platform and enrich it! That has resulted in a lot of fun computing kits with Raspberry Pi as the base. This guide will show you some of the most popular options out there now.
Creative Computing is a free CC licensed curriculum for computing in Scratch. It was created by a team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and download options include a guide for educators, a workbook for students, and an entirely editable version to remix in Powerpoint!
An A-Z coloring book that Adafruit created to introduce basic concepts in computing history and physical computing.
If you are interested in piloting a lending program for a Raspberry Pi kit, feel free to make a copy of our existing form and edit it to suit your needs.
Professional Development
Sign up for the Raspberry Pi Learn newsletter to stay up to date on pi stuff for educators!
Picademy is the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free face-to-face professional development program that supports educators throughout their digital making and computing journey. This two-day training event is held at venues around the UK and North America.
TeachComputing.org
A vast selection of resources targeted at UK educators, including free training, web courses, teaching resources and more.
This is the official Raspberry Pi magazine! Here, you can buy it in print or download it free. Each issue is filled with project ideas, step-by-step tutorials, and more.
A collection of Essential start guides to kick-start your RPi obsession. These publications are free to download as PDFs.
Our favorites include:
Like MagPi, Hello World is a magazine created by the Raspberry Pi foundation - except this is specifically written with educators in mind! While US based educators cannot currently subscribe to the print edition, it is free to download the PDFs.
Offers free online courses in a variety of subjects. If you want to make the most out of your Raspberry Pi, you will likely need to work on developing a familiarity with Python programming language. You can find an excellent introductory course here. It’s free! We highly recommend
This link will take you to a list of Twitter handles (company, foundation, and educators) and hashtags to leverage the power of social media as a Pi enthusiast.
Favorite Projects
This kit lets you build your own natural language processor and connect it to the Google Assistant or Cloud Speech-to-Text service, allowing you to ask questions and issue voice commands to your programs. All of this fits in a handy little cardboard cube, powered by a Raspberry Pi.
Turn your pi into a retro-gaming machine!
Specific games (or ROMs) are copyrighted and need to be found elsewhere (potentially torrented), or even on preloaded cards. More info here
Kodi is a free and open-source (FOSS) media software that runs great on the Raspberry Pi. It allows Pi users to turn their Pi into a custom media center.
Capture multiple images over a long period of time, and then combine them into a Gif.
See the MagPi Camera Module guide or RPi Camera Module Projects for endless camera project ideas.
Begin tapping into the endless word of connectable sensors and build a weather station. This project offers extensive documentation and so many opportunities for curriculum tie-ins.
Simply put, this allows you to turn a Raspberry Pi into a wireless access point.
This software is billed as a “black hole for internet advertising” and can be used for network wide protection.
This install is a great way to make use of aging hardware that could be repurposed for classroom centers or specific web-based use (like searching a library catalog!)
Use motionEyes OS to build a connected camera security system with one or more Raspberry Pis.
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Samba file server to back up and share content from anywhere on your local network
There are so many options for handling music files using the Raspberry Pi. Audiophiles might be interested in working with Volumio or the Max2Play operating system.
Setting up a RPi print server is a simple way of bringing your regular USB printer to more modern standards without you having to shell out hundreds of dollars.
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