Webinar: Implementing an Elementary Makerspace

Why should you create a makerspace in an elementary school? What equipment and activities should you use? What themes work well in a makerspace? Three experienced makerspace educators and three experts from Pitsco discuss these and other questions about this student-centered learning space.

Watch how to use movement TagTiles™ to make routes for KUBO to follow.

Watch how to use loops and parameters for KUBO to repeat a sequence more than once.

Watch how to use subroutines, a function within a function, for KUBO.

KUBO is a new multi-award winning classroom solution that breaks down barriers to teaching technology to children as young as four years old. Designed like a puzzle, KUBO’s groundbreaking TagTile™ programming language is tangible, intuitive, and completely screen free — making it easy for teachers to adopt it and offer younger students a social and hands-on opportunity to learn basic coding concepts and essential 21st-century skills during early childhood development. Watch just how easy it is to get started! You'll be up and running in just minutes!

Watch and learn how to use the TagTiles to create recursive functions which tell KUBO to repeat a sequence indefinitely.

Hear from the students, teachers, and administrators from the Nightingale school, in the greater London area, as they share their KUBO experience. Discover how KUBO has offered their young learners a collaborative, creative approach to exploring coding in a hands-on, screen-free way.

Watch how to use function TagTiles™ for KUBO to remember a route.

The Bee-Bot® and Blue-Bot® programmable floor robots are the perfect place to start when teaching children the basics of control, algorithms, and programming. With a wide range of cross-curricular mats and activity tins to program with and fun accessories to personalize, Bee-Bot® is the must-have programming resource for ages 3-7.