Resources
MakerScience and Arduino
Learn how to teach basic concepts of electricity and circuits, program a microcontroller, and integrate making, building, and inventing into your classroom
MaKey MaKey Kit Librarian Reference Manual
The MaKey MaKey Kit: Librarian Reference Manual is a guide to using, managing, and troubleshooting the MaKey MaKey in your library.
Microcontrollers for Educators
General Resources for educators: worksheets, activities, project rubrics and more.
Microcontrollers for Educators 2015
Each summer, we teach a weeklong professional development workshop around using technologies such as Arduino, Processing, and electronics in the classroom.
Modkit and Arduino (Drag and drop programming)
Course for Elementary students using LilyPad and Modkit.
Paper Circuit Cards
Have students build a simple circuit with copper tape, a coin cell battery, and an LED. This template can be extended to any number of other activities inv
Paper Circuits: Light Up Valentine Pop Up Cards
Templates and slide presentation used in the Light Up Your Love with Paper Circuitry class on 2/12/14.
Paper Circuits: Lotus Flower Pop Up Card
Templates used in the Have Fun with Paper Circuitry workshop at GESTEM on 5/9/14.
Paper Circuits Pin
This quick craft project shows you how to create a circuit using copper tape instead of wire to light up an LED and make a wearable piece of e-craft art.
Physics and Open-Source Robotics - Activities for the classroom
Position, velocity, acceleration, torque, and rotation—these are all key concepts in both physics and robotics. Why not integrate these things together? We
PicoBoard LabPack Getting Started Guide
This is a hand-out illustrating how to get started using the PicoBoard and auxiliary sensors on ports A, B, C, and D. The LabPack comes complete with 10 Pi
PicoBoard Library Resources
Here are some great resources to include the PicoBoard as part of your library or makerspace.
Processing and Interactivity for Educators
This is a web-based curriculum designed for middle-schools and undergoing update and addition.
Processing Cheatsheet
We have compiled a quick reference list of all of the common commands we use for teaching Processing. This was created in Microsoft PowerPoint. The raw, ed
Processing the Danger Shield
This material teaches the creation and manipulation of basic shapes using Processing and SparkFun's Danger Shield.
Programming with Simon
This material shows a way to re-use our popular Simon game to teach programming after you have used it to teach soldering.
ProtoSnap
Teach digital and analog input and output using the RGB LEDs, buttons and buzzers with the ProtoSnap board.
ProtoSnap Intro to Arduino
Presentation on programming microcontrollers without having to create any circuits using the ProtoSnap board.
Prototyping Wireless Wearables with LilyPad Simblee
WEAR 2016 workshop on getting started with LilyPad Simblee
RedBot Dance Challenge
Using the RedBot chassis or a chassis of your own design, choreograph a dance routine for your robot!
RedBot Library Quick Reference
This is a nice summary of the RedBot library. This is useful for introducing the RedBot commands to students.
RedBot & RedBoard with miniBloq
A step by step tutorial on how to use the drag and drop environment, miniBloq, to program SparkFun's RedBot and RedBoard.
Resistance Board
A project using e-textiles to show the concept of resistance in an intuitive manner.
Scratch with Data Logging
Workshop presentation and sample Scratch files from Jeff Branson’s workshop on Scratch Programming in a Science Classroom