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Changing Dash Challenges My students have really enjoyed using the brick connectors and LEGOs to create with Dash. The older students have built bulldozer attachments, and my younger students have built "hats" for Dash. A Dash "hat"! I decided it would be fun to see what they would do with...
Bowling with Dash! Have you ever seen a robot bowl? Well I have and here's how it all started! Right after Christmas, I was strolling through Target, and stumbled upon a child's plastic bowling set on clearance. Thoughts of using Dash to hit the bowling ball popped into my head...
Dash and Dot robots for young kids from Wonder Workshop (FKA Bo and Yana from Paly-i) are easy to use right out of the box. Read our review!
Making Music with Dash One of the optional attachments you can purchase for a Dash robot is a xylophone. It's super cute and fun to create with! Once you have the xylophone and mallet attached to Dash, the Xylo app takes you through a quick set up process. I used...
Dash on Snow Patrol This activity was inspired by a video tweet from Margaret A. Powers @mpowers3. I knew my students would love helping Dash plow "snow"! Pic from the Wonder Workshop site. This activity uses the optional bulldozer bar attachment from the Wonder Pack or Accessories Pack. I have...
***THIS LESSON HAS BEEN UPDATED. THE DICE ARE NOW MATS TO PRINT AND USE WITH ACTUAL DICE. SEE THE END OF THE POST FOR THE RESOURCES*** Today was my first full day of exploring Dash and Dot the Wonder Workshop robots with my students in grades K-5. It was a...
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Reviews of the best toy robots, coding robots, buildable robot kits and more robots for kids. The list will help you figure out the best holiday gift for the kids or robot for the classroom. Part of the Best STEM Gifts for Kids gift guide.
In this blog post from Modern Teaching Aids, we look at Dash & Dot and explore some engaging coding activities to use in the classroom.
Turn the Bot Around Once my 1st graders were comfortable pairing Dash to the iPad, making Dash go to “sleep”, and adding move forward and backward blocks, I knew it was time for more. I decided to have the students focus on turning and not on having Dash move forward...
Many of my students are preparing for our school science fair right now. This got me thinking about using Dash to practice the scientific method. During the Hour of Code week, we noticed the speed seem to change how dash moved through our tape maze. Dash seemed to move different...
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Using the Dash and the Blockly App with 1st Graders I have enjoyed the using the Path app with my Kindergarteners, but feel like it would be limiting to my 1st graders. I decided to go ahead and try using the Blockly app with 1st grade-5th grade students. I knew...
Build a Better Bulldozer Activity At the end of January, I did a post about using Dash and the Bulldozer attachment to collect snow. A friend mentioned they were getting a robot, but was sad they wouldn't have the bulldozer attachment to try the activity. This got me to thinking,...
We asked our kids of different ages to create their own coding projects using the Dot and Dash robots, and wow! Take a look at the creativity.
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