pi-top: CS & Robotics Starter Pack
pi-top: CS & Robotics Starter Pack Grades: 6+ Number of Students: 1-2 students per kit Number of Lessons: 300+ Hours Contact Hours: 300+ Additional Resources: Sample Code Cards, Sample Course Scope & Sequence, Sample Lesson Plan Highlights: Looking to introduce coding, engineering, or robotics into your class? Everything you need to start teaching coding, AI, robotics, and engineering. With over 300 hours of hands-on lessons, you'll find CSTA-aligned content for beginner coders to advanced programmers. Our Further LMS makes it easy to start teaching CS as a stand alone class or integrate PBL within STEM and CTE classes. Interactive Lessons for Robotics and Coding: Does your existing program need new life? Students will use their creativity, mix in electronics & code to experience programming while building problem solving and computational thinking skills. Resources are also available such as the Life Sized Parts Identification Poster, and Code Cards to support students. The project based learning curriculum is designed by teachers to engage all students and make teaching CS easy. Teaching CS doesn’t have to be scary: With Block-pi, coding becomes more accessible. Easily connect to the pi-top device (containing a Raspberry pi) through the Further interactive learning platform. Choose from 100s of premade CSTA standards aligned lessons. Write or edit code and send it wirelessly to the device from inside lessons! Roster students using Clever or Google, customize lessons, access resources, assess, and track progress through the Further teacher portal. Real World Advanced Robotics & AI Projects: Students design and code complex projects using pi-top's custom curriculum, code libraries and hardware. Students can collaborate to design optimal traffic light systems, smart homes, and pollution reduction utilizing AI and machine learning (obstacle avoidance, color recognition, emotion detection). Introduce CS through After School clubs and Summer Camps: The starter pack is an easy way to engage new learners to CS and Robotics. For new teachers & facilitators curious about teaching CS, this pack is a great way to build confidence in teaching & learning. Our self-paced learning design makes it easy for students to lead their learning with minimal teacher instruction. Curriculum or Lesson Topics: Further, our turnkey CS teaching platform connects 300+ hours of aligned lessons with pi-top [4] hardware to make CS education easy. Beginner Courses and Lessons utilizing Block-pi (a block based coding language) Lessons to transition to Python (text-based programming language) Beginner & Advanced Python courses & lessons Robotics, AI, and machine learning As well as core subject + CS interdisciplinary content Standard Alignments: 300+ hours lessons aligned to CSTA, Common Core, and NGSS standards. Robotics 101 Standards Alignment Robotics 102 Standards Alignment What's Included: Includes: 6 Hardware Kits + 1 Year of Further LMS for teachers and all students Each hardware kit includes the following: Main Hardware pi-top [4] "Brain": Pre-installed Raspberry Pi 4 2GB pi-topOS on 32GB SD Card Power Supply Unit (PSU) pi-top USB Cable Electronics 1x Ultrasonic Sensor 1x Buzzer 1x Light Sensor 1x Sound Sensor 2x Potentiometers 2x Green LEDs 2x Yellow LED 2x Red LEDs 2x Buttons 8x Connecting cables Robotics 1x Expansion Plate 50+ aluminum construction pieces x250 rivets 2x Servo motors 2x Encoder motors 1x HD 720p Camera 1x Micro-USB to USB-A Camera Cable 1x Castor wheel 1x Chassis plate 2x Tires 6x Colored balls 2x 12mm Wheel connectors 1x Phillips screwdriver 1x Rivet removal tool 2x Hex Allen keys 1x Roll of blue line following tape Additional Information and Resources: Getting Started With Further Further LMS Curriculum Library Further CS LMS 1 Year Subscription CS & STEM Live Online Professional Development