Fall Coding Activities with Dash
No tricks, just treats: invite creativity, collaboration, and coding into your classroom with these spook-tacular activity ideas!
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Spooky Challenge Cards
In these Challenge Cards, students will code solutions to help Dash escape from a scary castle, save the day from an angry monster, and face fears about black cats.
Download the whole set and let the spookiness begin!
Code Dash Through a Corn Maze
Use tape to create a simple maze on the floor, making sure that it’s wide enough for Dash to fit through. Add as many fall-themed decorations as you want! Students can then use directional commands in Blockly to help Dash find the way out of the corn maze.
Take Dash Trick-or-Treating
Create a scene for Dash to go trick-or-treating like the students in @upielementarygate did! They went all out with the haunted house decorations and added a part to their program where Dash says “trick-or-treat” when arriving at the door. Perfect for small group work, each team of students can design their own haunted house, then work together to help Dash navigate from one spooky house to the next on Halloween.
Go Pumpkin Picking
Using the Gripper Building Kit Accessory and small toy pumpkins, create a program that helps Dash pick up as many pumpkins as possible from the patch and deliver them to a new location. Don’t have small pumpkin toys? No problem! Use objects you already have in the classroom, or turn recycled materials into your own DIY props.
Pumpkin Transport Engineering Challenge
Students in @teachingthegifted’s class were challenged to design a cart that would hold 15 pumpkins to help Farmer Dash transport pumpkins from the farm to the market. This is a great way to integrate the Engineering Design Process and Coding while using Dash. This class found that orange snap cubes made great pumpkins!
Make Halloween Decorations with the Sketch Kit
Materials Needed:
- Robot Dash
- Sketch Kit
- Large sheets of paper
- Examples of Halloween shapes and words
Use the Sketch Kit to help Dash create fall decorations for your classroom! Show a few examples of fall-themed shapes and words, and give students time to brainstorm their favorites before they get started.
Collect and Sort Candy with Accessories
Help Dash pick up spilled candy in this Challenge Card! Use the Bulldozer accessory from Wonder Workshop or challenge students to create their own version. Extend the lesson by swapping out the Bulldozer for the Gripper Building Kit. Using the Gripper, have Dash sort Halloween treats into different categories.
Have a Costume Party
Dash loves to dress up for Halloween! Students in @innovatewithme‘s class designed creative disguises and costumes for a day of trick-or-treating. Share your dressed-up Dash photos on social media and tag us @wonderworkshop.
Dash doesn’t have to be the only one in costume! Check out these wonderful costumes made by @cactuscrew507.
Trunk or Treat with Dash
Cardboard and creativity can go a long way! Annalee, an amazing teacher from Vanalden Elementary, created a larger-than-life Blockly costume and Dash robot to adorn her car for the school’s trunk or treat event. The giant Dash now has a second life decorating the technology classroom and motivating students.
Check out this video to see how the class programmed the real Dash robots to dance the day away!
Make a Leaf Pile with Launcher
Use the Launcher accessory and program Dash to throw a pile of found or faux fall leaves in the air. Then, make Dash sing and dance around in the pile to celebrate fall! Make sure Dash is on a hard surface and no crumbly leaves get stuck under the wheels.
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