KinderLab Robotics, creator of the award-winning KIBO robot, is expanding its curriculum offerings to serve students in grades 3–5 with Exploring with KIBO. Building on KIBO’s proven success in early childhood education, KinderLab’s playful, screen-free robotics kits now offer a seamless learning progression that spans pre-K through 5th grade.
The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities specifically designed for upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level. Serving as a direct follow-on to the Growing with KIBO K-2 curriculum, Exploring with KIBO allows older children to expand their computational thinking and computer science skills utilizing KIBO’s playful extension sets and engaging cross-curricular activities.
This new curriculum allows district leaders to extend their existing KIBO implementations with age-appropriate, challenging content that maintains the platform’s signature screen-free, hands-on learning approach. The expanded curriculum features:
- 60 hours of comprehensive upper elementary computer science instruction;
- Standards-aligned, hands-on lessons and activities to support cross-curricular integration with math, science, social studies, and English Language Arts to build computational thinking and computer science skills; and
- Clear lesson plans with background information, vocabulary, and scripting to support all teachers, whether they are classroom teachers or trained CS specialists
