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Sphero Central: Your All-in-One Educational Resource Hub

Teaching with hands-on STEM tools like Sphero robots, littleBits, and Blueprint engineering kits can be incredibly rewarding. However, as the Sphero collection grew, we realized we had coding apps, lessons, educator guides, and more spread across various places on multiple platforms. We know that your time as a teacher is invaluable, and finding the right lessons, guides, and resources to engage your students while managing time constraints can be challenging. 

That’s where Sphero Central comes in—a new content platform designed to help educators streamline their classroom experience and maximize the value of their Sphero tools–all in one place. Let’s look at each of the new features Sphero Central offers.

What Is Sphero Central?

Sphero Central is the new hub for educators to find free standards-aligned lessons, challenges, downloadable guides, and more. It is designed to support teaching with Sphero coding robots, littleBits, and Blueprint engineering kits. Whether you're new to using Sphero's educational tools or a seasoned pro, this hub provides easy access to everything you need to deliver impactful lessons. From pre-built lesson plans and activity guides to classroom management tools, Sphero Central has been thoughtfully designed with educators in mind.

Simplified Steps for Getting Started

Each product includes a short set of steps to get up and running with your Sphero product quickly. Before you start, you'll learn about apps or other items you'll need and then be prompted to explore how the product works before introducing it to students. 

Streamlined Lesson Discovery

At the heart of Sphero Central are purposeful yet fun, standards-aligned lessons for all Sphero robots and engineering kits. 

Every Sphero tool has collections, or groups of lessons organized around a subject area and/or grade band. Lessons in each collection can be completed in sequence or you can jump around to teach the lessons that fit your classroom needs. Select the “view educational standards” link to view alignments for all the lessons in a collection. 

Where to find "View educational standards" on Sphero Central.

Sphero Central also makes it easy to search a wide range of individual lesson plans and activities, whether you're searching by robot/kit, grade level, or subject. There's something for every classroom, from learning the foundations of computer science and coding with Sphero BOLT+ to hands-on engineering projects with Blueprint.

Access to Resources Designed for Educators

Sphero Central isn’t just about finding great lessons—it’s about finding great resources to help you seamlessly integrate our technology into your curriculum. Navigate to the resources tab on each Sphero robot or engineering kit page to find everything from educator guides to challenge cards to tutorial videos to professional development presentations. Once you find the resources you want, download them, print them, or even modify them to fit the needs of your classroom. 

Blueprint resources on Sphero Central.

Manage Your Classes with Ease

Along with lessons and resources, Sphero Central offers class management tools to help teachers track progress and manage assignments for Sphero robots like BOLT+, BOLT, RVR+, and Mini. By organizing your students into classes on the platform, you can easily assign lessons with class codes (no student sign-in required), monitor student progress, and evaluate outcomes—all from one centralized dashboard. (See what we did there?)

Getting Started with Sphero Central 

For teachers already familiar with using the Sphero Edu app or web-based version (edu.sphero.com), Sphero Central offers a combined and expanded suite of lessons and resources that cater to our full range of tools. It simplifies finding high-quality, classroom-ready lessons and provides a more efficient way to manage lessons and students, helping educators focus on what matters most: sparking creativity and curiosity in every student.


Head to Sphero Central today and see how it can transform your STEM classroom!


Please note: Sphero Central is best experienced on a desktop computer.

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