Primo - Teaching programming logic to children age 4 to 7 by primo.io

As Seen on Primo is a play-set that uses shapes, colours and spacial awareness to teach programming logic through a tactile, warm and magical learning experience. Primo makes an incredibly important, but otherwise uninteresting topic to children, enjoyable and fun. Primo is a play set composed by 3 main items that combined create the Primo play experience. 1 • Cubetto a friendly robot. 2 • The board, a physical programming interface 3 • The code, a set of instruction blocks (Forward, Left, Right and Function) The goal of the game is to guide Cubetto to his destination, represented by a house, a big cube, or any other object of your choice. The robot executes in sequence the instructions placed in the board. There's not a single solution or path to follow, it's also interesting to see how different children come up with different solutions. The queue is what children are basically playing with. No screens, no visible technology. Skills are mastered gradually. 40,000 | Pimp my Cubetto

Squishy Circuits Operation Game I cooked up a batch of conductive dough. I want to build squishy circuits with the elementary age students with whom I work. It molds like play dough and can be tinted any color you like. Next time I'm going for something other than raw beef color. I used the conductive dough to build a squishy circuit version of Operation, where you remove the patient's organs and bones without touching the metal lining the hole. I upcycled a pair of chopsticks, a small cardboard box, and aluminum foil. Here is the circuit schematic for Operation. I cut out the shape of the organ with an X-Acto knife. I used a glue stick to glue a piece of aluminum foil around the "game portal" part of the box. One more piece of foil provides a lead that the conductive dough can be set on to create the circuit. The chopstick is covered in aluminum foil and bound at the top with a rubber band.

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