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2013 Design Challenge: Robot Enhancements, Software, and Teaching Plans Sponsored by: The African Robotics Network (AFRON) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Robots excite people of all ages. Their physical behavior often inspires primary and secondary student interest in computers, science, math, and engineering more broadly.

Thanks Enzo, this looks like something my students could work on as an enrichment project.

Developing a culture of problem-solving and autonomy in the classroom means that you'll be freed to focus on helping students that are struggling and challenging students who pick up the material quickly. There will be more time to build lasting relationships with your students, develop strong classroom culture, and ensure that your students are

Decimals and reading scales come together in this app as the player needs to mark where the given number appears on the number line. Twenty correct answers in a row are needed to complete the challenge. Go to Decimal Line teaching resource.

Fabulous online robotics challenge - I use it in my school with grades 3-6 (Australia) as we do not have robotics.

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

A very good resource indeed! Completes greatly the first lesson of K-5 Course 1 of code.org, I think.

Online Class Quiz/Game. Straightforward, simple, and fun.

My y1 kids love it, we make quizzes as a class and challenge the other y1 classes.

Our kids love it as well!!

Case study on the use of the game Lure of the Labyrinth with students in primary school. Provides assessment data and discusses the challenges and successes of this Department of Education Trial.

An evolving collection of innovative, interactive stories exploring the world - and our place in it -. Artists and storytellers of all sorts utilizing new technology, to explore new forms of creation, present distinct voices, strong points-of-view, and unique perspectives to provoke discussion, spur debate and challenge the way we think.

Report by Erin Relly, Vanessa Vartabedian, Laurel J. Fert and Henry Jenkins which elaborates on the five principles of participatory learning (exercise creativity, co-learning, motivation and engagement, relevance and learning ecosystem) and shares insights from 11 teachers who oriented their classrooms according to these principles including triumphs and discoveries, challenges identified, and suggestions for fostering participatory learning environments.

A worldwide network of coding clubs for children aged 9-11. I use ready to go Scratch projects from this site to help run my coding club, however it is also great as classroom support or enrichment.

my kids love making the robots dance on the robot boogie challenge! I would have suggested this myself. It's interesting to watch them switch from the sliders to inputting numbers, adjusting and checking the results.

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling. This resource provides beautiful illustrations to act as a stimulus for teaching writing. You can work from a single image with drag and drop words to create a poem, put together a selection of pictures which are grouped by style or theme for you and use them to write a picture book, or create a more challenging longer format for older kids. The books can then be saved and read by other class members.

hey, i loved storybird.com! Thanks for sharing. I have always loved to read and write. This is going to be a great writing resource for my primary class.