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4th Grade Shares Their Complete UBTech Beginner Robot

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4th Grade Shares Their Complete UBTech Beginner Robot

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4th Grade Students at Work Collaborating and Building.

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4th Grade Students at Work Collaborating and Building.

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Ozobot makes desk-friendly coding robots that come with infinite ways to create, learn, and share. Learn more about Ozobot for grades K-12.

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Sphero Education | STEM & STEAM EdTech Company: Sphero

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Through professional development & STEM teaching trainings, Sphero partners with educators to bring robotics & STEM into the classroom. Learn more now!

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Employability Skills

Whether it be through exposure of programming, nomenclature, and flight patterns or learning important soft skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving, there are a number of employability skills included in drone flight.

Career Connections

There are many direct correlations to jobs with drones whether it be in aviation, agriculture, construction, entertainment, oil and gas, marketing, or military.

Using drones in the classroom opens up a new set of opportunities to make classes more relevant and engaging for students.

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Drones can prepare students for jobs in the fast-growing multibillion dollar industry. Students can now become well-rounded in flight with our drone offerings.

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12 Bots for $2050

**We received 24 Ozobots through a grant from our ESU in 2023.

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The Sphero Bolt is $179. We received four through our Cross County Booster Club Grant in 2023.

**We also just received funds through the Rural Technology Fund foundation https://ruraltechfund.org/ for five more!

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We received five Pitsco Drones through an ESU grant in 2022. The cost to purchase five drones would be $995.

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1st & 2nd grade students have been working on story maps in library/media. When we combined with S.T.E.A.M. class, students created a map of their story and programmed the Ozobots to travel the map making various stops and changes along the way to go along with the story.

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Third grade students were put into groups of three and told that they were going to be snowed in. Their challenge was to create a snowplow with specific materials in a class period. While creating their snowplow, they needed to use the Cross County thinking process to solve their problem. The activity was a three day activity that included time to test, improve, and share which provided to be quite necessary!

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Print for snowplow activity

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Teacher Slideshow in Canva for Snow Plow Activity

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Teacher Slideshow in Canva for Snow Plow Activity

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Student Project Planner for Snow Plow Critical Thinking Activity

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Student Project Planner for Snow Plow Critical Thinking Activity

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Fifth grade students create a short research paper about the drone profession they choose before flying the drones. During the research process students are learning about how drones might effect our society in both positive and negative ways.

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Instructions for flying Pitsco Drones.

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Independent Drone Station

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uKit AI will be available starting April 2024. Learn more.

Fun and exciting robotics projects ignite students' imagination, encourage independent thinking, and deepen STEM learning

A supplemental integrated STEM support system designed for year-round use
UBTECH Education's UKITs are flexible and can be seamlessly integrated into your STEM and CTE programs - work it in how it works for you.

Through UKITs, students learn more than just science and engineering - they develop essential college, career, and life skills:

Teamwork and communication

Engineering design thinking/ computational thinking

Project management, l eadership, and delegation

Persistence, endurance, and patience

How to receive and give constructive feedback

Adaptability, troubleshooting, and problem-solving

Digital literacy and coding skills

Learn more about our leveled UKITs:

UKIT Beginner Designed for students new to robotics and coding. Appropriate for elementary school.
Out of Stock

UKIT Intermediate Designed to build upon students' coding skills. Appropriate for elementary and middle school.

Price: $459.95

uKit Explore Formerly UKIT Advanced. Designed to deepen skills and provide enrichment. Ideal for middle and high school.

Price: $649.95

uKit AI Designed to integrate real AI in the classroom. Ideal for elementary and middle school.

Price: Coming Soon

How are UKITs different?

Founded on UBTECH's robotics and artificial intelligence experience and research base, UKITs support multiple projects that increase in complexity as learning progresses. UKITs invite students to build, unbuild, and assemble their own creations.

The free uKit EDU app and our browser-based uCode provide easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, as well as advanced 360-degree, 3D modeling tools so students can quickly get started and immerse themselves in the build.

Our curriculum enables students to leverage advanced science and mathematics concepts combined with robotics and engineering to solve real-world problems. We offer full STEM units, 10-hour engineering courses, as well as circuitry lessons, and open-ended challenges.

All UKIT parts, as well as our retired line of JIMU Robots, are compatible with each other. Using additional servos, sensors, and parts creates more challenging projects and sparks students' creativity and critical thinking skills.

Our professional development prepares teachers to incorporate hands-on activities into core subject areas through the use of robotics, coding, and the engineering design process.

UKITs are STEM.org Authenticated™ to integrate well into STEM-friendly homes and programs; align to science, technology, engineering, and math standards; support the development of students' 21st-century skills; and engage through hands-on learning and collaboration.

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uKit AI will be available starting April 2024. Learn more . Fun and exciting robotics projects ignite students' imagination, encourage independent thinking, and deepen STEM learning A supplemental integrated STEM support system designed for year-round use UBTECH Education's UKITs are flexible and can be seamlessly integrated into your STEM and CTE programs - work it in how it works for you.

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We received 2 Beginner, 2 Intermediate and 2 Advanced kits through an ESU grant in 2023.

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Fourth grade students pick a robot to research from the Robots Guide page before they begin to build!

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Smart Buddies are no longer available to purchase :( 

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Smart Buddies are no longer available to purchase :( 

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We received 8 Smart Buddies through an ESU grant in 2022. We struggled with connection issues. We are currently down to four that are working. They were more stressful than useful for our students. The idea of using coding to get them to go where we wanted was ideal for problem solving and critical thinking, but we could not rely on them and they caused more frustration than learning opportunities, unfortunately.

They are no longer available to purchase. That makes us think we were not the only ones struggling with them.

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Jimu World is Your World

With Jimu Robot kits from Ubtech you can use your imagination and make your ideas come to life with code. Have fun while learning to program robots.
Build. Program. Share.

Build. Program. Share.

Jimu Robots are the award winning interactive robotic building block system for ages 8 and up.

Our Winning Awards

From Smarty to Whiz Kid to Brainiac, There's a Kit for You!

Jimu Robot kits from Ubtech offer a wide variety of challenging builds. Perfect for anyone just starting out, all the way up to aspiring Jimu Masters.

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Jimu Robot by UBTECH ® STEM Education. Smart Robots. Smarter Kids.

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Create a robot that’s uniquely yours with Jimu Robot Ubtech—and program it with the free Jimu Robot app on your iPhone or iPad.

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We purchased six Jimu Robots in 2021 with Library funds. They ranged from $59-150 per robot.

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Fourth grade students get to build their Jimu robot after their research project is completed. These kits come with an app that includes detailed instructions on how to build the robot. Teamwork, communication, problem solving, building and rebuilding are just a few of the skills required while constructing the robots.

After robots are completed. We have group of student who are in charge of creating an obstacle course for the robots to complete based on their abilities. Students who are not as engaged in the building process tend to love the role of creating the course.

We also had a "Show and Share" where students rotated around the room to learn about all of the robots and what they could do. Students discussed their challenges and triumphs along the journey of building.

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School Improvement Goal: By spring 2025, all students will improve reasoning/critical thinking skills as measured by MAP data, NSCAS Growth and a district-wide Proficiency Scale.

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Created by Cross County School Improvement Team

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K-12 Media/Technology Integration

K-5 Library/Computers

9-12 Computer Science

klundstrom@crosscounty.esu7.org

@kklundstrom

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HS Math

K-5 S.T.E.A.M.

jlange@crosscounty.esu7.org

@Mrs_JLangeCCCS

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This video showcases students actively engaging in the critical thinking process and utilizing technology for projects in both library and S.T.E.A.M.

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Neon Light Motion Reminder Motivational Quote Video

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We received funds for five more Spheros through the Rural Technology Fund Grant.