With technology growing faster than ever, robotics education equips students with the skills needed to thrive in a future powered by AI and automation. Robotics curriculum seamlessly integrates with various subjects, allowing students to apply their knowledge across the board and expand STEM career opportunities.
To be truly effective, robotics education should be integrated across multiple grade levels for gradual progression that strengthen understanding of 21st-century skills.
Robotics throughout different grade levels can:
- Spark interest in STEM at an early age
- Provide relevant hands-on experience with technology
- Encourage problem-solving skills through real-world challenges
- Increase career awareness and preparedness in engineering
- Foster teamwork, leadership, and communications through collaboration
- Introduce programming, engineering, technical and critical skills in an engaging way
Texas New Technology Standards
In the 2024-2025, Texas’s new Technology Applications TEKS went into effect, requiring students in kindergarten through 8th grade to take a computer science curriculum, including coding and robotics.
Virtual & Physical Robotics With Make Wonder, teachers can easily create a coding curriculum from pre-built standards-aligned lessons and activities where students embark on coding adventures with Dash the robot in a virtual or real-world setting. By learning coding literacy with Make Wonder, students can toggle between block-based and JavaScript within challenge cards, math and science activities, and more for mastery over multiple subjects
Integrate Robotics, Drones, & AI NextWaveSTEM offers hands-on, project-based K-12 curricula in robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence (AI) that integrate real-world challenges and focus on developing critical 21st-century skills like problem-solving and collaboration. Each program provides hours of comprehensive standards-aligned lesson plans with classroom-ready materials.
Progressive Robotic Companion With an interactive coding companion that advances with students, SAM Labs’ Root® coding robots are designed to fit seamlessly into schools. All robots are equipped with hands-on, made-for-classrooms curriculum and activities that are standards-aligned, cross-curricular, and team-centric. SAM Labs is equipped with resources to help teachers integrate robotics into curriculum for a personalized coding learning experience.
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