Ideas for Creating a Wonder League Robotics Competition Mat
Buy It, Print It, Make It! It’s time to get those mats ready for the big day so that the teams can dive right in. In order to set the stage for all three missions, your teams will need a 5 x 8 square grid Wonder League mat with the following specifications: sized 150 cm […]
Hands-on Lessons and Skills for WLRC Mission Readiness
Whether or not your team submits mission evidence, the Wonder League Robotics Competition (WLRC) is a rich source of curriculum that combines coding, creativity, and critical thinking. By using WLRC missions in the classroom, students can gain hands-on learning experience that builds essential STEAM skills. There are two foundational skills emphasized in WLRC that transfer […]
Bring Design Thinking Principles to Your STEM Program
Ignite Creativity and Resilience in STEM Through Design Thinking In today’s dynamic world, students need mindset tools that fuel innovation, adaptability, and deep empathy. That’s where design thinking comes in: a human-centered, iterative approach that transforms your STEM classroom into a vibrant lab of curiosity, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. Far from being just for designers, […]
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 […]
