About Bee-Bot Lessons
Bee-Bot Lessons provides 200 lesson plans that use Bee-Bot or Blue-Bot to explore the K–2 curriculum. Lessons are divided into 10 subject areas with over 600 activities for classroom and online use. Each lesson states its objective and provides instructions for implementation. Further suggestions for differentiated instruction to adapt the lesson for struggling and advanced students are included. Each lesson is matched to accredited standards for the subject involved and the standards it achieves are listed.
Many of the lessons are based on Terrapin’s Learning Mats.
- Mathematics
- Science and Health
- Social Studies
- Exploring Letters and Words
- Reading and Writing
- Communication
- Months/Holidays
- The Arts
- Story Time
- Foreign Languages
View a PDF copy of the Table of Contents
Click on the image at the right to try out an “Exploring Letters and Words” online activity.
Try more sample lesson pages.
Bee-Bot Lessons is available online where you can view and print the lessons and associated images. The lessons are integrated with the Bee-Bot Online Emulator so activities can be used in the classroom or online from anywhere.
Bee-Bot Lessons was originally developed by Cristy Pelham, a kindergarten teacher in a technology-rich laboratory classroom in Rock Springs, WY. Each of the original 100 lessons were used and refined by both the author and her colleagues throughout the school district with the goal of being easy to implement and classroom tested. They work well with students from Pre-K through second grade. More recently, the number of lessons has double to 200, with new lessons and Bee-Bot Online Emulator mats developed by teachers familiar with teaching with Bee-Bots.
Bee-Bot Lessons is an online product that comes with a license to copy the lessons and use them throughout a school site. Your license key provides access for one year to the online version, where you can browse and print the pages, or download the lessons and/or the images as PDF files. Each lesson includes links to associated mats in the Bee-Bot Online Emulator.
Included in Bee-Bot Lessons are over 3,300 brightly-colored images carefully matched to the lessons and organized into convenient PDF files. Each lesson specifies the file containing the images that support it, along with other suggested resources, most conveniently available at schools. Print the images, follow the lesson instructions, and set Bee-Bot or Blue-Bot off on a teaching adventure for your class! With lessons for math, science, social studies, reading, art, and more, Bee-Bot Lessons can be used throughout the day and throughout the year, incorporating technology across the curriculum.
The Card Mat is the perfect companion for Bee-Bot Lessons. The Bee-Bot Card Mat is a 6 x 6 grid with a clear plastic sheet on top. The grid is designed so that each square represents one Bee-Bot step. Lift the plastic sheet, place images from Bee-Bot Lessons or those you create on the grid, and lower the plastic sheet to lock them in place. With the grid as a guide, students use Bee-Bot to explore the subject or task represented by the images. The Bee-Bot Card Mat provides a durable and flexible learning station for Bee-Bot that can be used in all areas of the curriculum.
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