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More Earth Day with Dash

Celebrate Earth Day by turning Dash into your class’s eco‑hero with these hands‑on coding challenges that bring recycling, plant power, clean‑up missions, the water cycle, and wildlife rescue to life. Each activity weaves environmental science and block‑based programming into a fun, meaningful experience for young learners. 1. Recycle Relay (Gripper Kit) Objective: Teach students about […]

Earth Day with Dash: 3 Free Lesson Plans

Get ready to roll into Earth Day with Dash. In this post, we present three lesson plans that combine environmental themes and robotics using Dash—giving your students a chance to learn about life cycles, seed dispersal, and weather patterns in a hands-on, interactive way. Plus, we’ll look at how some inspiring teachers on Instagram are […]

Eggs-cellent Fun with Dash Robot

As Easter approaches, why not hop into some egg-cellent fun with Wonder Workshop’s Dash robot? These three Easter-themed activities will have your students collaborating, coding, and celebrating springtime traditions in a hands-on, engaging way. Each activity encourages problem-solving, creativity, and teamwork—guaranteeing a memorable learning experience for all! Do the Egg Help Challenge!  In this challenge […]

Telling Time With Dash

Looking for a hands-on way to bring time-telling to life for your elementary school students? In this engaging lesson, your students will join forces with Dash to draw analog clocks on a whiteboard mat, depicting different times. Learners will practice telling time in hours, half-hours, and even minutes. Not only will they sharpen their time-telling […]

New NGSS Science Adventures: Blast Off with 20 K-5 Science Activities for Curious Coders

Blast Off with New Science Activities in Make Wonder Are you ready to take your students on an out-of-this-world learning journey? We’re thrilled to announce our brand-new NGSS-aligned Science Activities! These 20 interactive K-5 activities combine Earth & Space, Life, and Physical Science concepts with fundamental coding skills—like sequencing, loops, events, and conditionals—so kids can […]

Dash into Pi Day

It’s that time of year again and we’re bringing you a brand new set of materials to use with students as you celebrate Pi Day, March 14th. This year, students can move through stations as they celebrate that irrational ratio we love so much, 3.14159…  Distribute Pi Day Activity Cards Download these printable activity cards […]

They’re Playin’ Dash-ketball

It’s that time of year again! March Madness is about to begin and Dash is getting in on the action with a basket ball challenge that kids love. If you’d like teach important measurement skills while students are having fun with Dash and the launcher, download our free lesson plan: Dash’s Basketball Challenge: Measurement. In […]

Programmed for Friendship: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Dash

Make collaboration, kindness, and coding the heart of your Valentine’s Day celebration! Downloadable Dash Valentines Print out a special set of Dash-themed valentines for students to share with their classmates.  You could even turn valentine delivery into a coding challenge. Suit up Dash with a DIY Gripper or Bulldozer attachment, and have students code Dash […]

Dash into Holiday Joy: Easy Tips for Unboxing and Getting Started

Wrapping paper is flying, eyes are sparkling, and excited laughter lights up the room as your child finally meets Dash! Christmas morning is all about magic, and with Dash you can skip the stressful setup so your child can dive right into their coding adventure. We want to make it easy for you to focus […]

Program Dash to Draw a Tree

Help Dash Draw the Shape of a Christmas Tree For this activity, you can either use the  Sketch Kit accessory with Dash or you can fashion your own harnass for a magic marker and get drawing. The downloadable PDF includes a link to a video of Dash drawing the tree as well as a Blockly […]