Exploring with KIBO leverages KinderLab’s extension units to supply selection, engagement, and pleasure for college students as they work with KIBO for 3 further years. The expanded curriculum enhances the KIBO STEAM Explorer Classroom package deal by incorporating superior programming capabilities by way of the Constructing Brick Extension Set, Marker Extension Set, Free Throw Extension Set, and the Superior Coding Extension Set.
“We’re proud to now provide greater than 200 hours of curriculum to our clients. Paired with our present award-winning pre-Ok–2 curriculum, Exploring with KIBO delivers a seamless development from foundational abilities to advanced ideas,” stated Jason Innes, KinderLab’s director of curriculum, coaching, and product administration.“Though KIBO was initially designed to satisfy the developmental wants of pre-Ok–2 college students, we’ve heard over and over from many higher elementary lecturers that older youngsters profit from KIBO as effectively. We created Exploring with KIBO to help these lecturers and college students. Broadening our curriculum additionally permits a wider vary of scholars to profit from their college’s funding in KIBO, whereas educators have the consolation of working with a well-known robotic.”
Pattern classes provided within the new curriculum embody:
- Historic Journeys, a Third-grade lesson aligned with social research: College students draw a ground map after which program KIBO to take part in historic occasions and use KIBO’s Marker Extension Set to hint a journey on the map.
- Mark and Measure, a 4th-grade lesson aligned with NGSS requirements associated to hurry calculation and power switch: Utilizing KIBO’s Free Throw Extension Set, college students program KIBO to throw a ping pong ball after which measure each distance and time to calculate the bottom velocity of the ball.
- KIBO Race Course, a Fifth-grade lesson aligned with Frequent Core math requirements on representing information: Utilizing the Superior Coding Extension Set, college students document the habits of their KIBOs and analyze information to discover the idea of random numbers.
Exploring with KIBO is accessible for pre-order on the KinderLab webstore for cargo in February 2025. Educators could have the prospect to preview the brand new curriculum in particular person on the 2025 Way forward for Schooling Know-how Convention (FETC) Convention, happening January 14-17, 2025. Demonstrations at Sales space #942 will spotlight how KIBO grows with higher elementary college students, supporting cross-curricular studying from mathematical problem-solving to scientific investigations and literacy connections.
For extra details about KIBO’s expanded curriculum for grades 3–5, go to KinderLab’s Exploring with KIBO web page.
Discover KinderLab at FETC at Sales space #942.
Laura Ascione is the Editorial Director at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the College of Maryland’s prestigious Philip Merrill Faculty of Journalism.
