Tag: Elementary

Dash into Holiday Joy: Easy Tips for Unboxing and Getting Started

Wrapping paper is flying, eyes are sparkling, and excited laughter fills the room as your child finally meets Dash! Christmas morning is all about magic, and with Dash you can skip the stressful setup so your child can dive right into their coding adventure. We want to make it easy for you to focus on […]

20+ Winter WONDER-ful Activities for Dash

Coding in a Winter Wonderland There are many ways to reinforce physical coding and applied robotics during this holiday season. You can use these winter wonderland ideas as morning warm-ups or for Friday free time, or you can create rotation stations to tackle them all at once during a classroom celebration. Pick and choose your […]

Lesson Plan: Dash the Thankful Turkey

🦃 Activity Title: Dash the Thankful Turkey Objective: Students will program “Dash the Turkey” to travel around a mat, stopping at spaces to share things they’re thankful for. Materials: Dash robot Sketch Mat or any coding mat (can also tape a grid on the floor) 4–6 “Thankful Spot” cards (one per square you choose) Paper […]

Dash Thanksgiving Day Parade

Bring the Thanksgiving Day Parade to Your Classroom with the Balloons Over Broadway STEM Challenge 🎈🤖 If you’ve been on social media this November, you’ve probably seen the Balloons Over Broadway STEM challenge floating around. It’s a fun, creative way to combine reading, engineering, and coding — and Dash makes it even more exciting! Here’s […]

Spooky STEM Activity Roundup

🎃 It’s Our Spook STEM Activity Roundup! No tricks, just treats: invite creativity, collaboration, and coding into your classroom with these spook-tacular activity ideas! Got an idea to share? Post it on social media and tag us @wonderworkshop! Download the Activity Book A Set of 3 Spooky Challenge Cards In these Challenge Cards, students will […]

Fall Football Fun: Dash Kicks Off Coding Season

Fall is in the air—pumpkin spice, crunchy leaves, and Friday night lights. 🍁 For your classroom, that means the perfect time to bring football fever to your STEM program! Wonder Workshop’s Football Launcher Task Cards turn Dash into an all-star quarterback, inviting your students to huddle up, problem-solve, and code their way to a touchdown. […]

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, […]

Dash is Seein’ Stars

It’s a Star-Spangled Sketch Party” 🎇 Happy 4th of July! 🎆  Ready to bring some extra sparkle to your Independence Day celebrations? In this challenge, Dash the robot uses the Sketch Kit acccessory to draw a five-pointed star—just like the ones on the American flag!  Teachers and parents can use this fun activity to introduce […]

Beyond the Ball: Learn to Launch Lemons, Pom Poms, and Other Creative Cargo

Ready to turn coding into a hands-on launching adventure? Here are three fun “projectile labs” that blend screen-time logic with real-world physics. In Citrus Splash, learners code single-shot launches of plastic lemons into targets of varying size and distance; Pom-Pom Precision challenges them to sequence launches and pauses for silent soft-ball tosses; and in Cork […]