Curriculum Inspiration
Ideas and resources for teachers, updated monthly with a new theme.
Project-Based Learning with Scratch
A music curriculum unit using Scratch
A high school curriculum using Snap!
Musical Robots Project - Cross-Disciplinary project- Creative ways of Making Music
After school robotics for young learners (2nd-3rd graders)
LightLogo is a microworld created by Brian Silverman in an attempt to "get back to text programming." You can make beautiful patterns of light emerge in fewer than ten lines of code.
Collection of student work with LightLogo and the NeoPixel ring :
Lessons and stories about making, play, and
collaboration from the Tufts-ISB Partnership
Terrapin Logo Online Resources
Keep learning going even when schools are closed. Terrapin offers several resources students can use to capture the excitement of robots and coding without leaving home.
FIRST® LEGO® League introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children ages 4-16* through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem solving experience through a guided, global robotics program, helping today's students and teachers build a better future together.
A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way. Combine the physical and digital worlds using everyday objects, Lego robotics, motors, sensors and micro-controllers like Makey Makey and micro:bit to form chain reactions.
Scratch Educator Meetups are happening all around the world. Find and join your local meetup by visiting Meetup.com. You can also consult the meetup directory to connect with your local organizers! If you don't see a meetup in your area, learn more about how you can start one or support one.
A free computer science curriculum (using Scratch) that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn.