KinderLab Robotics, creator of the award-winning kibu robotis expanding its curricular offerings to serve students in grades 3-5 with Exploring with KIBO. Building on KIBO's proven success in early childhood education, KinderLab's fun screen-free robotics kits now offer a seamless learning progression spanning preschool through fifth grade.
The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities designed specifically for the upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level. Serving as a direct continuation of the Growing with KIBO K-2 curriculum, Exploring with KIBO Enables older children to expand their computational thinking and computing skills using KIBO's fun extension sets and engaging interdisciplinary activities.
This new curriculum allows district leaders to expand their existing KIBO implementations with challenging, age-appropriate content that maintains the platform's signature screen-free, hands-on learning approach. The expanded curriculum includes:
- 60 hours of comprehensive upper elementary computer science instruction;
- Standards-aligned hands-on lessons and activities to support interdisciplinary integration with mathematics, science, social studies, and English language arts to develop computational thinking and computing skills; and
- Clear lesson plans with background information, vocabulary and scripts to support all teachers, whether they are classroom teachers or trained computer specialists.
