Debug’d Dash and Dot Curriculum
$350
An inclusive coding curriculum for all students regardless of challenges — cognitive, communication, physical and other complex learning needs — for the Dash and Dot teaching robots. With digital, printed, and ready-to-print activities and instructional strategies, debug’d includes every student in meaningful participation through:
- explicit instruction
- differentiated strategies
- visual materials and
- real-world connections
debug’d Coding: UDL designed, inclusive coding curricula for all students
Features:
A scope and sequence with the foundational and coding concepts covered in K-8 classrooms. Detailed lessons explicitly develop learning to code and coding to learn skills.
Debug’d supports teachers with:
- Predictable, consistent lesson structure
- Explicit step-by-step instructions
- Digital slide decks for concept development and to guide lesson instruction
- Ideas to extend and connect learning to other areas of the curriculum and daily living activities
Debug’d supports students with:
- individual, small group and large group activities
- Differentiated materials and strategies for meaningful participation (i.e., Clicker activities to support alternate access, AAC displays)
Contents:
Curriculum Guide
- 14 lessons with clear step-by-step, scaffolded instruction for teachers
- Anchor activities to build and activate background knowledge
- Ideas for differentiation beyond the lessons and materials
- Engaging culminating activities
Printed materials
- 33 symbol supported vocabulary and category cards
- 36 Location Core with Fringe Vocabulary bound AAC booklet
- 5 colourful class posters
- 4 sets of Blockly Blocks (2 with symbols)
- 12 lesson focused challenge cards
- 5 student feedback cards
- 4 sets of red and yellow left/right bracelets
Digital Content
- Digital slide deck for each lesson
- 11 Visual Schedule cards
- AAC supports for a variety of layouts
- Social story template
- Individual student practice and application materials, including activities in Clicker 7 & 8
- Student and adult tip sheets to support communication and collaboration
- Student reference materials
- Copies of printed materials found in the bin
Debug’d was created through a collaborative partnership between Bridges Canada and the Inclusive Design Research Centre of OCAD University; made possible by a grant from the Innovation, Science and Economic Development department of the Federal Government of Canada.
Debug’d is a product of the Coding to Learn and Create project. For more information about the project visit:
codelearncreate.org