pi-top: Maker Electronics Station

pi-top: Maker Electronics Station

• Grades: 4+
• Number of Students: 1-2 students per kit
• Number of Lessons: 150+ Hours
• Contact Hours: 150+
• Additional Resources: Electronics Scope & Sequence Sample Lesson

Highlights:

Looking to create hands-on CS learning opportunities on a limited budget? Inspire students to tinker, imagine, and code. Our guided challenges enable students to learn coding and electronics at their own pace. The Maker Electronics Station is a perfect, low budget solution for makerspaces, libraries, or you can even use it as a station for those extra-timers & early finisher students in your class.

• Implement Real World PBL Projects: Make learning relevant with real world applications - STEM, reducing pollution, plant growth, smart home design, traffic light systems, art, and more. Our beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons are suitable for any setting, whether it’s in the classroom, for a club, or a station inside of a makerspace.
  
• 100+ Self-guided programming challenges: Students can discover CS programming and electronics through guided projects that excite them. Our challenges are hands-on to make independent learning accessible. Resources are also available such as the Life Sized Parts Identification Poster, and Code Cards to support students.
• Hands-on CS Learning: Connect to the device and run code from inside each online lesson. Projects are programmed through the browser so that you can use any laptop, computer, or tablet to access Further. Teachers will find helpful resources and detailed lesson plans, beneficial for any experience level.
  
• Easy to Collaborate: With the collaboration tools inside the online platform, it’s easy for learners to work in pairs, or small groups. Interested in collaborating with other teachers or facilitators? You can add other teachers to your school, class, or as a co-teacher in lessons.
  

Curriculum or Lesson Topics:

Access to 150+ hours of pi-top CS & Electronics content on the Further LMS:

• Block-pi & Python Tutorials: 16 lessons
• Block-pi STEAM Electronics: 6 lessons
• Python pi-top[4] & STEM Electronics: 13 lessons
• Python Coding Principles: 12 lessons
• Game Development: 6 Lessons
• And more!
  

Standard Alignments:

• 150+ hours lessons aligned to CSTA, Common Core, and NGSS standards
  
• Electronics Kit Pathway Standards Alignment

What's Included:

• 1 Year of CS & Electronics curriculum on Further LMS (licensed for teacher and all students)
• Electronics Kit
• Pi-top
• Expansion Plate
• USB Cable
• 2 Yellow LEDs
• 2 Green LEDs
• 2 Red LEDs
• 2 Buttons
• 1 Buzzer
• 1 Sound Sensor
• 1 Light Sensor
• 1 Ultrasonic Sensor
• 2 Potentiometers
• 1 HD 720p USB Camera
• 1 Micro USB Cable
• Connector Cables
• 50+ Metal Plates
• 2 Encoder Motors
• 2 Servo Motors
• 6 Colored Balls
• 1 Build Plate
• 1 Castor Wheel
• 250 Rivets
• 2 Tires

Additional Information and Resources:

• Getting Started With Further
• Further LMS Curriculum Library
• Further CS LMS 1 Year Subscription
• CS & STEM Live Online Professional Development

Technology Requirements/Specifications:

More information coming soon!