Exploring with KIBO – A Robotics Curriculum for Grades 3 – 5

PRE-ORDER: Exploring with KIBO will be released in February 2025. Order now, and we will ship as soon as it is available.

The second volume of KIBO’s Core Curriculum, Exploring with KIBO – A Robotics Curriculum for Grades 3-5, provides 60 hours of standards-alned 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 foundational concepts found in 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.

The expanded curriculum features:

• More than 60 hours of comprehensive computer science instruction supported by easy-to-use programming cards, in addition to KIBO’s familiar wooden programming blocks
• 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

Exploring with KIBO leverages KinderLab’s extension sets to provide variety, engagement, and excitement for students as they work with KIBO for three additional years. The expanded curriculum enhances the KIBO STEAM Explorer Classroom package by incorporating advanced programming capabilities through the Building Brick Extension Set, Marker Extension Set, Free Throw Extension Set, and the Advanced Coding Extension Set.

Please note: Exploring with KIBO makes use of all of KIBO’s capabilities, including those enabled by KIBO’s various add-ons (including the four expansion sets identified above).  While some lessons can be run with the KIBO 18 and without extensions, you must have the KIBO 21 with all extensions to run Exploring with KIBO in its entirety.