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Meet Your Cubelets


Scope & Sequence
Grades 7-12

The following scope and sequence is designed for middle school and high school students who have never seen Cubelets before. Each lesson is intended to last 55 minutes and 5 lessons are designed as a one-week introduction to Cubelets so all students are familiar with the learning tool and can use Cubelets as tools for learning and modeling other concepts in your classroom . Please use your professional judgment in deciding when you need to repeat a lesson, skip a lesson, or combine two lessons based on your class and your students. These lessons are loosely based on the Mini Makers Educator Pack – HOWEVER, for Middle School and High School students, we strongly recommend either the Creative Constructors or Inspired Inventor Packs because they contain more advanced Cubelets for your older learners. You will notice many lesson plans reference having blocks beyond the Mini Maker for this reason. View the Google Docs version here.

1 – Investigating Cubelets

2 – Investigate Two SENSES

3 – Steering Robots

4 – Cubelets Challenges

5 – Paper Coding

1 – Investigating Cubelets
Outline
Objectives
Students will investigate and be able to explain the role of each individual Cubelet.
Assessment

Teachers look for:

  • Students can explain the role of each individual Cubelet
  • Students are beginning to hypothesize about how each Cubelet could be useful within a larger system

2 – Investigating Two SENSES
Outline
  • Review Cubelets Vocabulary and Group Norms
  • Students investigate Cubelets constructions using two SENSE Cubelets
  • Students discuss findings from the investigation
Objectives
Students investigate how SENSE Cubelets work together (and how they don’t).
Assessment

Teachers look for:

  • Students can collaborate to discover at least two “rules” governing how SENSE Cubelets do and don’t work together

3 – Steering Robots
Outline
  • How do Tracked Vehicles turn?
  • Students design steering robot constructions
  • Students share and compare designs
Objectives
Students will design multiple steering robot constructions.
Assessment

Teachers look for:

  • Students using collaborative language
  • Students comparing robot behavior to tracked vehicles
  • Students revising and simplifying their robot construction

4 – Cubelets Challenges
Outline
  • Students rotate through stations with unique combinations of Cubelets attempting to design for one common challenge
  • Students share their responses to the challenge
Objectives
Students will use critical thinking skills to build a specific robot based on a description.
Assessment

Teachers look for:

  • Students understand the description of a robot
  • Students stay on task
  • Students collaborate with peers

5 – Paper Coding
Outline
  • Students investigate Cubelets robot construction
  • Students investigate using paper plates/cardstock to make a robot walk in a straight line
Objectives
Students will use spatial reasoning and computational thinking skills to use paper as a programming tool for a robot construction.
Assessment

Students can explain how their paper coding works, and talk about their design process.