pi-top: CS & Robotics Class Pack

pi-top: CS & Robotics Class Pack

• Grades: 6+
• Number of Students: 1-2 students per kit
• Number of Lessons: 300+ Hours
• Contact Hours: 300+
• Additional Resources: Further LMS Library Info, CSTA Standards Alignment Docs, Sample Course Scope & Sequence Doc, Sample Lesson Plan,  Supporting Neurodiversity

Highlights:

Looking to build or update a CS and Robotics class? Everything in one place to teach Computer Science, AI, and Robotics. We have developed a CS Dept. in a Box with curriculum aligned to CSTA standards. On Further (an interactive learning and coding platform) you’ll find electronics & robotics lessons to inspire beginner coders, and content to challenge advanced engineers. The class pack is ideal for smaller class sizes or for team learning.

• Integrated Teaching, Learning, & Class Management: Do you find teaching CS using hardware in the classroom a challenge? Further, our turnkey CS teaching platform connects 300+ hours of premade CSTA-aligned lessons with the pi-top device for CS instruction. You can roster students using Clever or Google, customize & assign lessons, access teacher resources, deliver in-class or remote instruction, track progress and assessment.
  
• Beginner Level Coding & Robotics: Access beginner level projects that can be used in CS classes and STEM classes. Students will use their creativity, mix in electronics & code to experience an introduction to programming while building problem solving and computational thinking skills. With Block-pi, a block-based language, coding becomes more accessible and easier to understand.
• Advanced Level Coding, Robotics, AI & Machine Learning: With our advanced curriculum, students design, construct, and code complex projects using pi-top's custom lessons and code libraries. Our premade courses are aligned with CSTA standards and focus on CS, robotics, gaming, and AI topics.
  
• Applied STEM and Competitions: Push students to apply what they have learned in school by linking coding with STEM in pi-top’s interdisciplinary lessons - connect Geometry with AI & robotics, align Biology and Earth Sciences with code through smart agriculture.
  

Curriculum or Lesson Topics:

• Further, pi-top's turnkey CS teaching platform connects 300+ hours of aligned lessons with pi-top [4] hardware to make CS education easy.
• Beginner Courses and Lessons utilizing Block-pi (a block based coding language)
• Lessons to transition to Python (text-based programming language)
• Beginner & Advanced Python courses & lessons
• Robotics, AI, and machine learning
• As well as core subject + CS interdisciplinary content
  

Standard Alignments:

• 300+ hours lessons aligned to CSTA, Common Core, and NGSS standards.
• Robotics 101 Standards Alignment
• Robotics 102 Standards Alignment

What's Included:

Includes: 18 Hardware Kits + 1 Year of Further LMS for teachers and all students

Each Hardware Kit includes the following:

Main Hardware

• pi-top [4] 'Brain': Pre-installed Raspberry Pi 4 2GB
• pi-top OS on 32GB SD Card
• Power Supply Unit (PSU)
• pi-top USB Cable

Electronics

• 1 Ultrasonic Sensor
• 1 Buzzer
• 1 Light Sensor
• 1 Sound Sensor
• 2 Potentiometers
• 2 Green LEDs
• 2 Yellow LED
• 2 Red LEDs
• 2 Buttons
• 8 Connecting cables

Robotics

• 1 Expansion Plate
• 50+ aluminum construction pieces
• 250 rivets
• 2 Servo motors
• 2 Encoder motors
• 1 HD 720p Camera
• 1 Micro-USB to USB-A Camera Cable
• 1 Castor wheel
• 1 Chassis plate
• 2 Tires
• 6 Colored balls
• 2 12mm Wheel connectors
• 1 Phillips screwdriver
• 1 Rivet removal tool
• 2 Hex Allen keys
• 1 Roll of blue line following tape