Terrapin Resources

Learning Mats

This section introduces you to Terrapin’s learning mats and how to incorporate them into your classroom.

About the Mats:
Learn more about the mats and what concepts students are exploring when they use them.

  • Curriculum Skills Mats allow students to explore and practice math and language arts concepts that are part of their daily lessons.
  • Narrative Mats engage students’ curiosity and creativity as they navigate their ‘bots to tell a story or explore an environment.
  • Specialty Mats are multi-purpose or specific to a particular robot.

Students can also explore many of these mats using the online versions of these robots in a browser.

Each bold link below takes you to a page with a larger image of the mat, a description, and lesson ideas that flow from beginning to advanced levels.

Small Image Mat Name Mat Type For These Robots Lesson Ideas




Card Mat


Specialty Mat


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Number Line Mat


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Alphabet Mat (English)


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Alphabet Mat (Spanish)


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




CVC Words Mat


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Shapes, Colors, and Size Mat


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Dice Mat


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Coin Mat


Curriculum Skills


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Baseball Mat


Narrative Mat


Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Pro-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Community Mat


Narrative Mat


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas



3D Community Construction Kit

Narrative Kit

Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot

Lesson Ideas




Country Road Mat


Narrative Mat


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Go Cart Rally Mat


Narrative Mat


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




Old West Mat


Narrative Mat


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas




School Mat


Narrative Mat


Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot


Lesson Ideas





Route Mat



Specialty Mat



Pro-Bot



Lesson Ideas




Dry Erase Mat


Specialty Mat


Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Pro-Bot


Lesson Ideas