A quick tour around the possibilities for robots in your curriculum.

1. Wondering about Robots?
Start with Dash and Dot!
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Leslie Wise
Laurie Wood
Thanks to Arielle Goldstein for consultation and slides material! @ArielleHG
https://tinyurl.com/
dashdotnjecc2020

2. Goals for Workshop
● Develop collection of Resources for
Coding instruction online.
● Learn the basics of Dash and Dot.
● Learn the basics of
● Utilize coding resources to develop
standards-based lessons.

3. Credit: @ArielleHG

4. Online Coding Resources
● Coding websites
○ Hour of Code
○ Scratch
○ Codeacademy
○ Khan Academy
● Dash and Dot
○ Go, Blockly, Robotics Competition
● Ozobot
○ Ozoblockly

5. HOUR OF CODE

6. Scratch and Scratch Jr.

7. Khan Academy

8. Google CS First

9. 1. Go to
https://makeymakey.com/pi
ano/ and play the piano.
Can you figure out how it
works.
2. Look at this simple
controlled created.
https://scratch.mit.edu/pro
jects/42126072/#editor
3. Can you edit it?
Makey Makey

10. Dash & Dot Robots
1. Download the Blockly app.
Connect Dash or Dot.
2. Try some of the puzzles or
task cards to get
acquainted.
3. Create your own codes to
have Dash zooming around
the rom disrupting
everyone.

11. Dash Wonder League

12. Ozobots
1. Turn on your Ozobot
(located on the side of
the robot)
2. Go through the
challenge cards and
try placing your
Ozobot on the cards.
3. Some of the cards will
allow you to add your
own lines with the
Ozobot markers.

13. Geography / Settings / Towns
Image: Makerspace for Education and @ArielleHG

14. SEL / Periodic Table
1. Determine properties of assigned element and how
those would be coded into heroic actions.
2. Incorporate into a program for Dash which
incorporates those heroic qualities or actions.

15. Cross-Curricular connections
● Parts of speech
● Vocabulary
● Follow the plot
● Rates and Speeds
● Geometry - Shapes
● Biography - Timeline

16. What words
do kids use
to describe
their coding
experiences?

17. Thanks for Joining Us!
● Sign up for Google for Education’s CS First (get
those free supplies on their way!).
● Work with Dash & Dot to increase familiarity. Sign
up at Wonder Workshop to access resources.
● Work with the Ozobots to increase familiarity.
● Design a lesson plan or unit plan based on a
coding resources (or resources).
Leslie Wise @wiseleslier Laurie Wood @lmwood