Category: Lesson Plans

2024-2025 STEM Events Calendar and Holidays for Teachers

2026-2027 STEM Events Calendar and Holidays for Teachers

October 23, 2024

As you start to look ahead for the year we’ve put together the following calendar of STEM holidays to help your planning. Here’s to another great year full of STEM activities for elementary students!

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Plan Your Virtual Adopt-a-thon Event

Plan Your Virtual Adopt-a-thon Event

May 3, 2024

Throw a virtual adoption event in your classroom to teach your students how to use conditions, functions, and loops to program a Carebot to take care of their new virtual pet!

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Teach a Game Design Course with Kodable Creator

Teach a Game Design Course with Kodable Creator

April 24, 2024

Our game designer course contains three lesson plans you can use with your students to have them go from fixing bugs in games to coding and sharing their own unique creations.

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April STEM Activities Your Students Will Love

April STEM Activities Your Students Will Love

April 1, 2023

Are you looking for April STEM activities that learners will love? If so, you need to give these a try! Creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and resilience are skills learners build naturally through STEM activities.

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Learn about our new classroom resources

Learn about our new classroom resources

March 17, 2023

We’ve got new classroom resources and a new layout on your teacher dashboard to help you find exactly what you need, when you need it. No matter how you’re using Kodable in the classroom, you can easily find new activities.

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The Winter Spectacular | Kid's Winter Coding Activity

The Winter Spectacular | Kid's Winter Coding Activity

December 12, 2021

Do you feel a chill in the air? A blizzard has hit Fuzztopia! For a limited time, Kodable players can help the Fuzzes get dressed for the cold by using JavaScript to style them in super cool costumes.

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STEM Activities for Kids Inspired by Picture Books

STEM Activities for Kids Inspired by Picture Books

December 9, 2020

Who doesn't love a picture book? Regardless of your age, we're pretty sure that answer is yes! Which makes these STEM activities for kids the perfect learning-based project for your students and you!

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How to Teach Game Design in Kindergarten

How to Teach Game Design in Kindergarten

December 4, 2020

Playing games can help improve children's abilities to plan, organize, get along with others, and regulate emotions. In addition, play also helps with language development, math, and social skills.

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Tips to Connect ELA and Coding in Elementary

Tips to Connect ELA and Coding in Elementary

December 20, 2019

Last month, an inspiring post popped up on our Twitter feed. Thea Clark incorporated a writing lesson with her Kodable activities with impressive results! The entire Kodable team was immediately enthralled with how she connected ELA and Cod

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4 End of the Year Coding Challenges

4 End of the Year Coding Challenges

May 15, 2018

The school year is coming to a close and everyone is itching for a brain break. Enjoy these four free coding challenges to get kids moving, creating, and thinking about code.

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We made some changes: Better pricing for every school

We made some changes: Better pricing for every school

March 27, 2018

I can barely believe it has been 6 years since we started Kodable. The CS community has been on quite a journey since then, and continues to develop. Today we're announcing some changes to our plans and pricing to meet schools within...

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Beginning with Robotics!

Beginning with Robotics!

June 27, 2017

Often the best way to introduce new computer science concepts to students is with tangible examples. The Kodable curriculum is full of such lessons and examples. Today we’re excited to be able to expand our curriculum with a truly...

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Build Classroom Community with Coding Team Builders!

Build Classroom Community with Coding Team Builders!

August 23, 2016

Back to school means old faces, new faces, and getting to know each other in a new classroom community. We know fostering collaboration and building an emotionally supportive environment positively impacts academic achievement.

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Social Emotional Learning via Digital Citizenship Lessons

Social Emotional Learning via Digital Citizenship Lessons

May 27, 2016

The most important lessons we learn in life center around social-emotional learning and becoming safe, responsible, and respectful adults. As 21st century citizens and learners, it has become essential for schools to teach social skills.

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4 Earth Day Activities to Empower Your Students

4 Earth Day Activities to Empower Your Students

April 15, 2016

Earth Day is quickly approaching. We can all take advantage of this chance to highlight what it truly means to take care of our planet. Particularly in a time where every day seems to bring a new challenge for the human race.

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Learn JavaScript with Kodable

Learn JavaScript with Kodable

February 25, 2016

It is a big day at Kodable! For the past three years, we have been working toward one goal: making it as easy as possible to teach programming in elementary school!

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Learn to Code: New Sequence Activity

Learn to Code: New Sequence Activity

October 16, 2015

Teach your students the fundamentals of sequence with our new fuzzFamily Fever activity! Worksheets and directions are included and available for download below. Happy coding!

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