Teacher using littleBits to teach empathy to kid.
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Teach Empathy Through Science

Students take joy in sharing inventions that do something. Adding movement and motion helps bring their inventions to life and can even help someone else.
Teacher using littleBits to teach empathy to kid.
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Teach Empathy Through Science

Students take joy in sharing inventions that do something. Adding movement and motion helps bring their inventions to life and can even help someone else.
Student presenting his design thinking project in front of other kids.
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Open-Ended Design Challenges Engage All Students

The Hudson Montessori School in Jersey City, New Jersey, is a K-6 school focused on engaging students in their own learning through real-world connections. The school's STEAM lab is an integral piece of the puzzle, offering students a wide range of tools and materials to bring classroom projects to life. 
Drawing of different kind of eyes.
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Top 3 STEAM & Coding Resources for Back-to-School Survival

We rounded up our top tools for STEAM and coding classroom planning just in time for back-to-school. These online resources will extend creativity and problem-solving while equipping you with the know-how to keep students engaged and learning. Break out the Bits!
Computer Science Foundations and BOLT on desk.
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Computer Science for the STEAM Age

Introducing Computer Science Foundations by Sphero

Last week, we introduced Computer Science Foundations, a standards-aligned curriculum that combines computer science with STEAM principles to deliver a wholly unique classroom resource. The courses are designed to work with Sphero BOLT, but also work with our SPRK+ and Mini robots.

littleBits voting box.
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Celebrate Women’s Equality in Your Classroom

Make classroom learning relevant and memorable by inviting students to create their own ballot box and see democracy in action! In July 1848, the first women’s rights convention took place in Seneca, New York. At the Seneca Falls Convention, women and some men gathered to discuss ideas to advance women’s rights and they wrote a Declaration of Sentiments, which included giving women the right to vote. And yet, it would take more than 30 years for that central idea to become a ratified amendment to the Constitution. 
Sphero and littleBits products and logos together.
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Sphero + littleBits Join Forces!

Over the past nine years, Sphero and littleBits have each created entirely new categories of hands-on learning tools that enable invention and STEAM education through play and technology. Combined, the two companies have reached over six million students and 65,000 teachers across 35,000 schools globally — and have sold more than $500 million in Sphero robots and littleBits kits. Today, littleBits joins Sphero to advance their common mission — inspiring the creators and inventors of tomorrow.
littleBits being used in classroom to demonstrate stem in art.
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Leading STEAM Exploration Through Art Engages Students Early and Often!

Leading with the art in STEAM is a phenomenal way to engage elementary students early on and build their interest over time. Makerspaces can be especially inviting and creative areas that enable students to broaden their learning, explore multiple content areas simultaneously, and engage in new creative technology.
Teacher demonstrating littleBits invention to class.
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One Teacher Who Didn't Take STEAM for Granted

Jasen Gibbens, a teacher at McLean High School in Terre Haute, Indiana, started his career as an engineer for General Electric and became a teacher ten years ago. Since that time, his goal has been to provide students with the hands-on manipulatives that encourage creative problem solving and help them to reach their full potential. 
Group of littleBits team at ISTE enjoying break together.
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Hands-on Learning, Lessons, and Community Take Center Stage at ISTE 2019

Philadelphia proved to be a wonderfully welcoming city for educators, administrators, and STEAM advocates this week at ISTE 2019! As the conference kicked off, we invited attendees to Power Up with healthy snacks and shared a bunch of new announcements:
Maker Space craft created by students.
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Cultivating A Maker Mindset: From the Library to the Classroom

School libraries are transforming -- often from monolithic reading rooms to innovation hubs. And while it’s a common misconception that STEAM education starts in the classroom and “ends up” in common spaces like the library, you may be surprised to know that librarians are often responsible for starting and scaling makerspaces in schools and districts.
Team working together at Bitconnect.
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NYC Educators Invent with littleBits at BitConnect

The best learning happens when we get together to share our expertise, discuss challenges, and have some fun. We did all this and more on Friday, May 31, at our first BitConnect event.
Student pose for picture while working together on littleBits.
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Hoboken Charter School Tackles Real-World Problem Solving

Students at the Hoboken Charter School, in Hoboken, New Jersey, pride themselves on being true members of the Hoboken community. Their teachers are...