Learnables

The Dot and Dash learnable kit helps students to learn the language of coding and how to use this knowledge to program the Dot and Dash robots to complete tasks. 

The resources and activities in this learnable are designed to encourage students to work collaboratively, communicate effectively with each other, problem-solve, and self-manage their time.

Using this resource kit, students will be introduced to the concepts of electricity, conductivity, static charges, and circuits.  

The electricity learnable sparks curiosity in students by giving them a set of surprising experiments to complete. It then allows them to dive deeper into the subject through further study and exploration of the Brainbox circuitry equipment.  

The Magnets learnable will introduce students to the concepts of magnetism, polarity, magnetic fields and electromagnetism. 

This kit gives students all that they need to broaden their knowledge of magnets beyond the kitchen fridge. It dives into real world magnetic applications like motors, compasses, electricity generation, and more.  

The Turing Tumble classroom kit gives students an opportunity to build their own marble powered computers! Designed to be used in pairs, Turing Tumbles strip back computers to their most basic form and help users to understand exactly what is going on beneath the hood of their devices.  

Turing Tumbles are an incredibly creative, non-screen way to teach students about coding, logic, and binary. Better yet, students manage their own progress through following an exciting comic book story that contains all the challenges.  

Micro:bits are pocket sized computers that teach students a vast range of digital skills. Using challenges from the Micro:bit website, students can program Micro:bits to play games, get active, create animations, and even protect local ecosystems!  

MOTAT’s Micro:bit kit also comes with additional specialised equipment such as streetlights, LED lights, and game controllers to allow students to program familiar, real world objects.  

Greatly improve your student’s computational thinking skills and collaborative skills with MOTAT’s micro: bit learnable.  

Tamariki will be able to plant seeds, go on a garden scavenger hunt, explore garden wild life as well as learning about how early Māori grew crops.

Suitable for Years 0-3, Dinosaur Steps uses a play-based approach to learning with a
hands-on, practical kit. The Dinosaur Steps resource introduces and develops understanding of algorithms. An accompanying fun, educational app takes students to the next stage of Digital Technologies understanding and knowledge with programming & Augmented Reality.

This Learnable covers the following areas of coding:

• Computational Thinking

• Algorithms & Programming

• Debugging

• Pattern Recognition

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Logical Thinking

Resources included:

• 10 Dinosaur Steps kits

• 10 iPads with the app already downloaded