Exploring with KIBO leverages KinderLab’s extension units to supply selection, engagement, and pleasure for college kids as they work with KIBO for 3 extra years. The expanded curriculum enhances the KIBO STEAM Explorer Classroom bundle by incorporating superior programming capabilities via the Constructing Brick Extension Set, Marker Extension Set, Free Throw Extension Set, and the Superior Coding Extension Set.
“We’re proud to now supply greater than 200 hours of curriculum to our clients. Paired with our current award-winning pre-Ok–2 curriculum, Exploring with KIBO delivers a seamless development from foundational expertise to complicated ideas,” stated Jason Innes, KinderLab’s director of curriculum, coaching, and product administration.“Though KIBO was initially designed to fulfill the developmental wants of pre-Ok–2 college students, we’ve heard time and again from many higher elementary lecturers that older children 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 learn from their faculty’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 Widespread Core math requirements on representing knowledge: Utilizing the Superior Coding Extension Set, college students report the habits of their KIBOs and analyze knowledge to discover the idea of random numbers.
Exploring with KIBO is obtainable for pre-order on the KinderLab webstore for cargo in February 2025. Educators may have the possibility to preview the brand new curriculum in individual on the 2025 Way forward for Schooling Expertise Convention (FETC) Convention, going down 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 School of Journalism.