Arduino Education Starter Kit

Teach middle school students the basics of programming, coding, and electronics. No prior knowledge or experience is necessary as the kits guide you through step-by-step, you are well-supported with teacher guides, and lessons can be paced according to your students’ abilities. You can integrate the kit throughout the curriculum, giving your students the opportunity to become confident in programming and electronics with guided sessions and open experimentation. You’ll also be teaching them vital 21st-century skills such as collaboration and problem-solving.

The Arduino Education Starter Kit contains all the hardware and software you need for eight students (in groups of 2). You get step-by-step-lessons, teacher notes, exercises, and for a complete and in-depth class experience there’s also extra optional resources including activities, concepts, history, and interesting facts.

The online platform contains the teacher content, nine 90-minute lessons, and two open-ended group projects that teach students coding and electronics. Each lesson builds off the previous one, giving students a further opportunity to apply the skills and concepts they have already learned. Students also get an engineering logbook that they complete as they work through the lessons.

The beginning of each lesson provides an overview, estimated completion times, and learning objectives. Throughout each lesson, there are teacher notes and information that help the lesson go smoothly. Extension ideas are provided at the end of each lesson.

Online Platform

• All the classes will be available online, both for educators and students, following in a linear way.

Logbook

• The logbook is a downloadable PDF workbook that the students need to complete throughout the lessons.
• The teacher can print as many copies as needed for the classroom and it can be completed either individually or in groups.
• The teacher also gets a downloadable logbook with the solutions.

Invention Spotlight

• In the Invention Spotlight, students learn about different inventions and facts behind the topics and lessons, giving them a broader view and historical insight.

Resources

• Extra hints, such as after-class research, ideas to develop intecurricula studies, presentations and short information, that give students a more comprehensive experience.

Vocabulary

• The lessons also come with words that might be unfamiliar to students. There are numerous vocabulary activities a teacher can do with their students. These activities can be considered as in-class extension activities or as additional assignments to be completed on their own.

What's in the kit?

The kit comes with several parts and components that students will use to build circuits as they complete lessons and projects throughout the course. Here is a brief description of what is included in the kit: Access code to exclusive online content including teachers’ guidance notes, step-by-step lessons and extra materials such as resources, invention spotlights, and PDF logbooks for students and teachers.

• 4 Arduino UNO rev 3
• 4 Starter Kit mounting base Easy-to-assemble plastic base
• 4 Battery Snap 9v
• 8 Batteries 9v
• 4 Breadboard 400 points
• 4 Capacitor – 100uF
• 4 Female-male Jumper Wires (red)
• 4 Female-male Jumper Wires (black)
• 20 LEDs (red)
• 20 LEDs (green)
• 20 LEDs (yellow)
• 20 LEDs (blue)
• 4 Multimeters
• 4 Piezo Buzzer [PKM17EPP-4001-B0]
• 4 Phototransistors
• 8 Potentiometer 10kOhms
• 20 Push Button
• 4 Resistors - 1 kOhms
• 20 Resistors - 10 kOhms
• 20 Resistors - 220 Ohms
• 20 Resistors - 560 Ohms
• 70 Jumper Wires
• 4 Stranded jumper wires (red)
• 4 Servo Motor
• 4 Temperature sensor [TMP36]
• 4 USB Cable
• 12 M 3 Screw
• 12 M3 Bolts