Back-to-school seasons means lesson planning and prep. Creating lesson plans for weeks after weeks of school can be hard and stressful, mainly if you need to adapt lesson plans to how your students learn. Douglas Stewart understands how stressful and time-consuming lesson planning can be. That’s why we partner with educational companies that have lesson plans created for teachers by teachers with their products to engage and teach students STEAM solutions. Here are just a few of our EdTech leaders with lesson plans available for free.
Wonder Workshop’s comprehensive curricular resources enable teachers to help students practice computational thinking and 21st-century skills with robots with no coding experience needed. They have hundreds of pre-built standard-aligned curricula for learning how to code, applied robotics, and cross-curricular lesson plans for STEAM learning. Select by subject, grade level, and accessories.
Matata Studio has multiple lesson plans for early childhood coding and secondary education. With the help of their lesson plans and robots for young learners, Matata Studio’s help students understand coding, commands, algorithms, and correlates with multiple other subjects.
Kai’s Clan brings multiple cross-curricular learning experiences to the classroom to engage and motivate students. Kai’s Clan lesson activities are broken down into roles and are assigned to different students depending on their skill levels. A benefit of the role-based system is that not all students are at the same skill level. Students can progress with themed lessons to boost interest in coding.
Primo has developed cross-curricular and standard aligned lesson plans by educators, for educators. They enable teachers to deliver solid computational-thinking foundations to young learners. Cubetto allows teachers to code without a screen, help children play collaboratively and irrespective of reading ability or language and works right how of the box without experience. Primo also has a makerspace Playroom to discover new ways to play and learn with Cubetto.
3Doodler offers hundreds of free standard-aligned lesson plans in a range of STEAM subjects that can be filtered by grade, skill level, and standards. All of their lesson plans can be made with the 3Doodler Start+ for a younger audience, and the 3Doodler FLOW for students 14 and above. The 3Doodler Start+ is also safe and accessible for blind or visually impaired students to join the learning fun.
What kind of pre-made lesson plans help your classroom the best? Let us know in the comments!
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