Welcome and Overview

This Dot and Dash kit will introduce your students to coding and computational thinking. These
unique robots learn with the students and have a variety of functions and uses.

Curricular Big Ideas and Tie Ins

Kindergarten to grade 3:
• Technologies are tools that extend human capabilities.

Grade 4 and 5:
• The choice of technology and tools depends on the task.

Grade 6 and 7:
• Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies.
What's Inside?

• 5 Dashes
• 5 Dots
• Accessories
• 10 chargers
• 3 unplugged lessons with handouts
• 10 challenges
• 9 task cards
• How to make a key handout
• How to use a key handout
• Tips and Tricks Handout
• K-2 Planning Worksheet for Dash
• K-2 Planning Worksheet for Dot
• 3-5 Planning Worksheet
• Challenge Card Checklists
• Blockly Puzzle Tracker
• Reflections Worksheet
• Advanced Reflections Worksheet
• Challenge Card Template
• Troubleshooting Handout
• Problem Solving & Debugging Handout
• Evaluation Rubric
• Vocabulary
• Resources

Device Management: (how to care for Dot and Dash)

• Unboxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDA2sT2qVZ0
• App Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXIMqX2F78
• Care and Maintenance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXlp_mzMxL0&t=21s
• Robot Guts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8idCcNeIQg
• Classroom Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4yVQ0VPhs
Getting Started:

• Each Dash and Dot need their own Ipad to run.

• The Ipad will need 5 Wonder Workshop apps: Wonder, Go, Blockly, Path, and Xylo.
https://www.makewonder.com/apps
• Make sure Dash and Dot are charged (takes 1 hour).
• On back of the robots is a white power button.
• Turn robots on one at a time with their Ipad.
• Start with the Wonder App: Open the app, Hit the play button, then the orange plus sign in the
right hand corner, this will sync your robot to the Ipad.
• On the App go to "Controller" and let the students explore the robots functions.
• On the App start going through the "Scroll Quest" challenges. After completing a few of the
challenges the App will unlock the "Free Play" feature.
• Now you have full access to your Dot and Dash!
Intro to Coding:
(Lessons adapted from https://curriculum.code.org/ as accessed on June 1, 2018):
Unplugged Lessons (without technology)
Introducing computational thinking

Reflective Learning Journal to use throughout the unit for student notes, questions, and
reflections of their learning.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqcU5RRHVtOE1tTlk/edit
Lesson 1 –Happy Maps:

Help your students understand the difference between planning a sequence and encoding into
appropriate language. This lesson teaches students how to read and write in shorthand code.
https://curriculum.code.org/csf-1718/coursea/5/
Worksheet/Materials: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqRTVWQ1ZIdVR4S1U/edit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqQUstcmp2UVJoRU0/edit

Lesson 2 – Programming in Maze:

Give students Unplugged Blockly Blocks (Grades K-1) - Manipulatives with directional
commands like E → (East) and W ← (West).
Show an empty Flurb map from the Happy Map Cards - Worksheet

Starting at the location of the Flurb, use your finger to show students what each block does.
Show them how the E → corresponds to the right arrow and moves the Flurb one step to the
right.
Ask: "How would you get the Flurb to the fruit using Blockly blocks?"

The students then program the Flurb using the paper Blockly blocks. Make sure that they
understand that the blocks need to go from top to bottom and they all need to be connected!
Compass Rose Printable for Direction Support: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m-cX-
B7KWXZOf58okvOctJ8mN_zV_MsV/view

Programming blocks to create a sequence https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-

uvt08wYSQqTW9WdU9sb1JpX28/view
Lesson 3 – Events Unplugged:
Distinguish events from actions!
Event = An action that causes something to happen.
A Series of Events
• Tell your class you are going to ask them questions. They are to put their hand up if they
would like to answer.
e.g How many thumbs do I have? What is bigger, a bird or a horse?

• Ask students with hands up for the answers

• Ask the class how you knew that the students wanted you to call on
them.(students raised hands) Explain to the class that raising their hands is an
"event" that causes you to know that they want to be called on.
• Ask the class if they can think of any other events that give signals.

(You may need to remind them that you're not talking about an event like a birthday
party or a field trip.)
• If they have trouble thinking of examples, you can remind them that an event is
an action that causes something to happen.
▪ An alarm clock going off? What does that make happen?
▪ Pressing "Start" on the microwave? What does that do?
▪ Pressing the power button on your tv remote?

Do you remember helping the Flurbs find fruit?

• You knew where you wanted your Flurb to end up, so you could make a program
that took them from start to finish without any interruptions.
• In most real programs, we can't do that because we want to have options,
depending on what the user needs.
▪ Say that I only want my character to move when my finger is on the
screen of my phone. I would need to program the character to only move
when I put my finger on the screen of my phone.
▪ Putting my finger on the screen would then become an "event" that tells
my character to move.
In earlier lessons, we created algorithms that allowed us to control a friend or Flurb for several
steps at a time. It was fun and useful, but what happens when you don’t know everything that
you want your friend to do in advance? This is where events come in!

Directions:
• Show the controller printable (or project to whiteboard)
https://code.org/curriculum/course1/15/Activity15-TheBigEvent.pdf
• Decide with your class what each button does. We suggest:
• Pink Button -> Say “Wooooo!”
• Teal Button -> “Yeah!”
• Purple Dial -> “Boom!”
• Practice tapping the buttons on the overhead and having your class react.
• Add some button sequences into the mix and have the students try to keep up with
their sounds.
• Let your class know that every time you push a button, it is an “event” that lets them
know what they are expected to do next.
• Get the class started on a planned task before interrupting them again with the buttons.
We suggest:
• Counting to 10
• Singing “Old MacDonald”
• Once their plan is underway, interject button presses sporadically.
• Continue the blend until they understand the difference between actions that are
guided by a plan and those that are event driven.
Controller printable: https://code.org/curriculum/course1/15/Activity15-TheBigEvent.pdf
Controlling Events Assessment: https://code.org/curriculum/course1/15/Assessment15-
TheBigEvent.pdf
Optional Student Activity: Plant a Seed Algorithm (teacher provides planting materials)
The concept of algorithms are related back to everyday, real-life activities by planting an actual
seed. Algorithms can be used to help describe things that people do every day. In this activity,
we will create an algorithm to plant a seed.

* Cut out the steps for planting a seed

HYPERLINK "https://code.org/curriculum/course1/6/Activity6-
RealLifeAlgorithms.pdf"https://code.org/curriculum/course1/6/Activity6-RealLifeAlgorithms.pdf

* Choose the six correct steps from the nine total options.
* Glue the six correct steps, in order, onto a separate piece of paper.

* Trade the finished algorithm with another person or group and let them use it to plant their
seed! Full Lesson: https://curriculum.code.org/csf-1718/coursea/3/ Video
https://play.makewonder.com/challenges.html
https://studio.code.org/s/coursea/stage/3/puzzle/1 Worksheet:
https://code.org/curriculum/course1/6/Activity6-RealLifeAlgorithms.pdf

Show and Share (demonstration of learning) - try out your algorithm – test someone else's –
does it work or does it need tweaking?
Optional: mount seed cards onto cardstock with magnet backings

Lesson Materials:
Background Knowledge needed: Video https://play.makewonder.com/challenges.html
https://studio.code.org/s/coursea/stage/5/puzzle/1
Background Knowledge needed:

Lesson 3 What are loops? https://play.makewonder.com/challenges.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JiEpTmz4xE&feature=youtu.be
Curricular Links:
ADST and beyond Lesson Materials: Worksheet/Materials https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-
uvt08wYSQqb2RldWtMRHBwLWs/edit Manipulatives https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-
uvt08wYSQqSmgxTVVTcHY3Nnc/edit
Challenges:

• Hello World:
o Learn how to record voices onto Dash.
o Learn how to make Dash respond to voices.
• Secret Code:
o Learn how to use Dash’s buttons to create an “enter the code” game.
o Learn about sequencing.
• Zoo Party:
o Discuss ways to use their robots’ sounds, movements, and lights to transform
them into animals.
o Learn to program Dash to respond to cues.
o Practice using Dot Seen, Obstacle Seen, and Branching.
• Juggernaut:
o Learn new ways to program Dash to respond to their actions.
o Learn ways to add conditional statements using Wonder.
o Use measurement to determine how far Dash has traveled.
• Campfire Story:
o Brainstorm story elements for the story starters.
o Practice telling impromptu stories.
o Learn about the role of “random” in state machines.
o Practice using Custom Sounds, Random Link, and Branching.
• Space Battle:
o Discuss ways to use their robots’ sounds, movements, and lights to transform
them into spaceships.
o Learn to use the Launcher, including calculating distance and adjusting
trajectory.
o Learn to program Dash to detect obstacles.
o Practice using Obstacle Seen cue and move to behaviour.
• DJ Dot:
o Discuss the parts of a song and the concept of sampling.
o String together a variety of sounds to create a song.
o Practice creating loops.
o Learn how to add randomization to a state machine.
 • Officer Dash:
o Learn new ways to program Dash to see and react to Dot.
o Create conditional statements using Wonder.
o Learn how to program complex searching behaviors for Dash.
• Follow the Leader:
o Learn fun new ways to use Dash’s distance sensors.
o Learn ways to add conditional statements using Wonder.
o Learn about directionality.
• Dragon:
o Learn new ways to program Dash to see and react to Dot.
o Learn ways to add conditional statements using Wonder.
o Learn more about Dot’s inputs.

Task Cards:

• Dash There and Back 1-4

• Turn Dash into a Car
• Turn Dash into a Fire Engine
• Turn Dash into a Train
• Turn Dash into an Animal
• Turn Dash into an Alien

Vocabulary (from https://curriculum.code.org/ as accessed on June 1, 2018):

• Algorithm - A list of steps to finish a task.
• Bug - Part of a program that does not work correctly.
• Debugging - Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program.
• Program - An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a
machine.
• Programming - The art of creating a program
• Event – An action that causes something to happen.
Kit Components: Technology: Additional Resources:

Consumables: • Dashes • Notebook

• Dots • Task cards (give
Painter's Tape
• Charging station examples and then
Felt Pens (washable) • Ipads (or devices to use with leave blank)
robots) • Mats (e.g. 100 chart,
Dry Erase markers
alphabet, hopscotch,
agility ladders, maps,
etc.)
• Trivia Questions (some
leading ones along with
dry erase blank ones)

Curricular Links/Big Ideas Learning Outcomes Links Lesson/Idea

Core Areas:

Math Measurement • Measure distance it

takes from Dash to get
Angles
to Dot.
Counting • Perimeter/Area/Turns
etc. To make it through
a maze
• 100 Chart puzzles (skip
counting)
• Number Trail e.g. put
out numbers and move
robot to/from etc.
(skip/pattern counting)

Language Arts Writing about the adventures of

Dash and Dot

Retelling familiar stories

(designing sets and costumes)

"Going on a Bear Hunt" -

Illustrate the story as Dash
moves through it

• Sight word cards

• Alphabet mats
 •

Social Studies mapping • Map Dash's route from

one destination to the
next on a map –
consider adding
historical features e.g.
STOP – choose a fur to
trade. Which one and
why? Or STOP choose a
means of
transportation. Which
one and why?

Science Role of Technology • Trivia task cards

• Friction (what surfaces
Force and Motion
work best?)
Gravity • How to make a robot –
what's inside?

Project Ideas – ADST • Building with lego and

other materials
• Design
playground/obstacle
course
• Coding
• Build game/sport (e.g.
bowling/soccer)
• Build an elevator or lift
for dot

Arts • Elements and Principles of • Design sets and

design costumes for robots
• Drama • Colour (coding light
• Speaking/Listening changes)
• Dance • Voice Recordings of
• Music sound effects and short
stories
• Code a Dance – choose
a song – make a
costume- build a stage
– perform with a felt
 pen to record a picture
of the dance

Core Competencies I can persevere with • Reflections on their

challenging tasks process and progress.
(great connections to all)
Communicating things
going well and things
bringing challenges and
identifying next steps
Resources:
https://education.makewonder.com/

https://play.makewonder.com/challenges.html

https://code.org/

http://www.thedigitalscoop.com/the_digital_scoop/2015/02/changing-dash-challenges.html

http://www.thedigitalscoop.com/the_digital_scoop/2015/01/dash-and-dot-robots-blockly-with-1st-
graders.html

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/1helloworld.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/2secretcode.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/3zooparty.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/4juggernaut.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/5campfirestory.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/6spacebattle.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/7djdot.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/8officerdash.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/9followtheleader.pdf

https://play.makewonder.com/uploads/6/2/6/5/62657913/10dragon.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B06DSGXn1rXIOVlINVBzcEQ4RFk/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B06DSGXn1rXIX2pDeWFIUnpvcE0/view

https://play.makewonder.com/using-a-key.html

https://play.makewonder.com/making-a-key.html

https://education.makewonder.com/assets/files/resources.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqb2RldWtMRHBwLWs/edit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqRTVWQ1ZIdVR4S1U/edit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqQUstcmp2UVJoRU0/edit

https://code.org/curriculum/course1/6/Activity6-RealLifeAlgorithms.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqSmgxTVVTcHY3Nnc/edit
https://code.org/curriculum/course1/15/Activity15-TheBigEvent.pdf

https://code.org/curriculum/course1/15/Assessment15-TheBigEvent.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uvt08wYSQqcU5RRHVtOE1tTlk/edit

Created by: Kara Dawson, Lauren Geneau, and Alissa Pratt