7 WONDER-ful Spring Activities with Dash

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Spring into Coding with Dash

Give students the opportunity to engage in creative and collaborative projects with this roundup of Spring-themed activities. 

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Haz el Reto de la Ayuda a los Huevos

 En esta tarjeta de desafío, se pide a los alumnos que ayuden a Dash a recoger huevos programando secuencias.

Descárgate esta Tarjeta Desafío de doble cara para utilizarla como estación con tus alumnos la semana que viene.

Juega a lanzar huevos

Egg Toss Game

Ya en 2016, TechAgeKids.com publicó una recopilación de actividades divertidas relacionadas con la Semana SantaEntre otras cosas, organizaron un desfile de Pascua con Dash y Dot vestidos con gorros de Pascua. También incluyeron una actividad que retaba a los niños a programar a Dash para que lanzara huevos a un cubo. ¡Compruébalo!

Organice un desfile de Semana Santa

Mira el vídeo del desfile de Pascua publicado por TechAgeKids y diviértete en Pascua con Dash and Dot - Easter Bonnets and Wonder App. 

Have Dash Recycle for Earth Day

Carrie Willis (@carriewillis18) and her elementary students at Valley Preparatory School in Redlands, CA, found a way to celebrate Earth Day with their entire school community — that included Dash! 

As part of a school-wide recycling initiative, the students at Valley Prep were able to use prior knowledge about recycling and coding to help Dash make good choices when disposing of waste on campus.

Here’s how you can replicate the activity with your students.

Gather materials:

  • One Dash robot
  • One gridded mat
  • Cups of varying sizes
  • 4 trash can labels: Paper & Cardboard, Plastic, Aluminum, Compost
  • Various images representing paper, cardboard, plastics, aluminum and compost items

Create a gridded mat or use the Whiteboard Mat produced by Geyer Instructional.

Attach the four trash can labels to the larger cups and placed them upside down in a row at the end of the mat.

Then add a recyclable’s image on each of the smaller cups. Scatter the smaller cups, representing cardboard boxes, plastic containers, banana peels, etc., around the mat.

The challenge is for students to program Dash to collect and sort the recyclables. Students need to first move Dash to one of the smaller cups and position the robot behind the cup. Then to deliver the item to the appropriate recycle bin, Dash has to push the cup in the right direction without moving past the bin.

Mrs. Willis found a recycling activity sticker kit from the Dollar Tree but these images could be replicated using colored paper and clip art or student drawings.

Write a Haiku for National Poetry Month (April)

Enseña codificación a través del plan de estudios con esta lección de nuestra Biblioteca de lecciones transversales¡! Enseñe a sus alumnos todo sobre los Haikus, pídales que escriban un Haiku y, a continuación, pídales que programen Dash para representar su Haiku.

Program Dash to Show All His Colors

This Challenge Card provides a fun activity for students to learn how to code Dash to display the colors around his eyeball! Below is the solution to the Challenge Card.

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