Piper Make Curriculum

PIPER MAKE PLAYBOOKS

Each Piper Make Playbook below includes career-connected unit plans that are designed to guide you through implementing different Piper Make kits in your classroom.

STARTER KIT

BASIC CIRCUITS AND CODING

This introduction to the Piper Make Starter Kit will walk you through the basics of building circuits on the breadboard and coding them using the Piper Make Mission Control drag-and-drop interface.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

8 hours

STARTER KIT | BEAM BREAK | MOTION BALL

KINETICS AND MOTION

Explore the fundamentals of motion and how to use technology to measure objects in space with Beam Break and Motion Ball.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

5 hours

STARTER KIT | SOLAR HOUSE | SOIL SENSOR

UNDERSTANDING CLEAN ENERGY

Clean energy is one of the fastest growing job sectors in the world! Build a Solar House to collect and store energy or explore agriculture technology with the Soil Sensor.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

5 hours

STARTER KIT | GAME CONTROLLER

INTRODUCTION TO GAMING

Build and code your own D.I.Y. Game Controller and then use it to play classic arcade games! With three missions on the Gaming Expedition and eight mini-games.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

5 hours

STARTER KIT | SENSOR EXPLORER

EXPLORE WITH SENSORS

In this expedition, we will be using three sensors (Color Sensor, Ultrasonic Range Finder, and Temperature Sensor) to explore how technology can respond to and interact with the world around us.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

5 hours

STARTER KIT | LIGHT SHOW

CREATING ART WITH TECHNOLOGY

Create your own scrolling messages and send them along to friends or create brilliant art with lights! You can also create a game to play using LED lights like Tetris, all with code you will learn to write.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

2 hours

STARTER KIT | ROBOTIC ROVER | ROBOTIC WALKER

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

What is the role of robots in our lives By building and coding Walker and Rover robots students experience and understand how programming motors and sensors create the foundations of robots in our workforce.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

5 hours

STARTER KIT | HEART RATE SENSOR

INTRODUCTION TO BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Bio-Med is close to Piper Founder Dr. Shree Bose's heart. Build and code a working heart rate sensor and do a crafting project to learn the basics of ultrasound technology.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

2 hours

STARTER KIT | LIGHT SHOW

BASICS OF CYBERSECURITY

Security means different things to everyone. In this Playbook we will be exploring the fundamentals of cyber security, or the unauthorized use of electronic data.

EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED:

Grades 3-8

5 hours

INVENTORS OF TOMORROW

MAKE-A-THON

This is where all the learning comes together! This guide will walk you through steps for a very fun project where students will invent technology to improve their community on paper.  

NO EQUIPMENT NEEDED

Grades 3-8

2 hours

PIPER MAKE EDUCATOR GUIDES

Each Piper Make Playbook below includes career-connected unit plans that are designed to guide you through implementing different Piper Make kits in your classroom.

STARTER EXPEDITION KIT

ROBOTICS EXPEDITION KIT

DESIGN EXPEDITION KIT

MOTION EXPEDITION KIT

ENERGY EXPEDITION KIT

SENSORS EXPEDITION KIT

INTEGRATED WITH GOOGLE TOOLS

We are proud to be an official Google Cloud Build Partner. Piper Make Mission Control is equipped with Google Single Sign On, Google Classroom Share Capabilities, and Save to Drive features to easily share student work and assignments. In addition, Piper Make is built for Chromebooks and can function as an offline PWA downloadble on the Chromebook App Hub.

EDUCATOR RESOURCES

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Piper, in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego Extension, offers credit for students and teachers that complete the Piper experience or professional development. Learn more >

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