Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Blockly
🚀 Welcome Back, Teachers! Let’s Get Ready for an Amazing Year of Coding & Robotics Welcome back to school, teachers! We know you’re busy setting up classrooms, planning lessons, and thinking about how to make this year your most engaging one yet. This post is here to help you feel confident teaching block coding—the visual, […]
10 Innovative Solutions for Robot Storage Carts
It’s our favorite time of year when educators are starting to get their classrooms ready for another year of inspiring young learners. This also might be the time of year that you find yourself surrounded by robots, charging cables and devices. What better time is there for creative storage solutions to streamline storage and charging, […]
Dash Goes to the Zoo
In this Free Resource Friday blog post, we take you and your students on an adventure at the zoo where code makes every creature come alive! With Dash by their side, your students will explore animal science, language arts, and block-based programming all in one wild adventure. From researching animal behaviors for a Robot Petting […]
Earth Day with Dash: 3 Free Lesson Plans
The Earth Day celebration continues. In this post, we present three lesson plans that combine environmental themes and robotics using Dash, giving your students a chance to learn about life cycles, seed dispersal, and weather patterns in a hands-on, interactive way. Plus, we’ll look at how some inspiring teachers on Instagram are bringing Earth Day […]
Earth Day with Dash
Celebrate Earth Day by turning Dash into your class’s eco‑hero with these hands‑on coding challenges that bring recycling, plant power, clean‑up missions, the water cycle, and wildlife rescue to life. Each activity weaves environmental science and block‑based programming into a fun, meaningful experience for young learners. 1. Recycle Relay (Gripper Kit) Objective: Teach students about […]
Celebrate Nat’l Poetry Month with Dash
Poetry and Coding? You Bet. April is National Poetry Month—a perfect time to celebrate language and creativity in your classroom. In the two lesson plans featured here, your students won’t just read and write poems: they’ll also program a Dash robot to bring those poetic lines to life. By merging verse analysis with hands-on coding, […]
Telling Time With Dash
Looking for a hands-on way to bring time-telling to life for your elementary school students? In this engaging lesson, your students will join forces with Dash to draw analog clocks on a whiteboard mat, depicting different times. Learners will practice telling time in hours, half-hours, and even minutes. Not only will they sharpen their time-telling […]
10 Inspiring Books Featuring Female STEM Pioneers
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re casting a spotlight on 10 inspiring female pioneers who broke barriers and laid the groundwork for future generations of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These narratives, rich in perseverance, intellect, and the relentless pursuit of discovery, not only educate but inspire while showcasing the indelible impact […]
They’re Playin’ Dash-ketball: Get Ready for March Madness!
It’s that time of year again! March Madness is about to begin and Dash is getting in on the action with a basket ball challenge that kids love. If you’d like teach important measurement skills while students are having fun with Dash and the launcher, download our free lesson plan: Dash’s Basketball Challenge: Measurement. In […]
From Slalom to Snowballs: Winter Olympic STEM Challenges with Dash
The Winter Olympics are here, and that can only mean one thing in your classroom… it’s time for Dash to go for gold. 🥇 In this special collection of Winter Olympic–inspired Dash activities, students won’t just learn about the Games… they’ll engineer them. They’ll design courses, choreograph robot routines, build accessories, and solve real coding […]
