{"id":11658,"date":"2023-11-10T05:51:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/?page_id=11658"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:34:05","slug":"hoc-activity-packets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/hourofcode\/hoc-activity-packets\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity Packets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hour of Robotics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Computer Science Education Week is Dec 8 – 14, 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Activity Packets with Challenge Cards<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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LEVEL B: SEQUENCES<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dash needs to collect some goodies, like candy and seashells (who wouldn’t?)! Introduce students to sequencing by using Blockly to program Dash to gather the objects.\u00a0<\/p>

Download [Dash the Collector] for Teachers<\/a><\/p>

Download [Dash the Collector] for Students<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Don’t have a Bulldozer Bar? Fashion one using the Building Brick Connectors that come with each Dash and your own Lego\u00ae bricks or other materials.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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LEVEL C: LOOPS<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dash's Spaceship Spinout<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Students will explore using loops within Blockly to program Dash, who is spinning out of control in outer space. Make Dash spin and then program Dash to shout for help and then stop spinning.<\/div>
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Download [Dash in Outer Space] for Teachers<\/a><\/p>

Download [Dash in Outer Space] for Students<\/a><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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LEVEL E: FUNCTIONS<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dash the Puppy<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dash is quite the character! Transform Dash into a puppy and use Blockly to program functions to have Dash perform tricks, speak, and run an obstacle course.<\/p>

Download [Dash the Puppy] for Teachers<\/a><\/p>

Download [Dash the Puppy] for Students<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sometimes Dash likes to be funny and do the unexpected. When you program the Speak Function, have Dash speak words in addition to barking.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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LEVEL F: VARIABLES<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u200bDash's Road Trip\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Time for a road trip, and what better buddy to travel with than Dash? Use Blockly to set variables to fill up and keep a full gas tank before the big trip.<\/div>
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Download [Dash’s Road Trip] for Teachers<\/a><\/p>

Download [Dash’s Road Trip] for Students<\/a><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hour of Robotics Computer Science Education Week is Dec 8 – 14, 2025 Activity Packets with Challenge Cards LEVEL B: SEQUENCES Dash the Collector Dash needs to collect some goodies, like candy and seashells (who wouldn’t?)! Introduce students to sequencing by using Blockly to program Dash to gather the objects.\u00a0 Download [Dash the Collector] for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":11640,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11658","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11658\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makewonder.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}