Name: Makeblock Neuron
Author: Makeblock

Use a variety of approaches, to generate creative ideas and avoid stereotypical responses

K-2-ETS1-3. Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

K-2-ETS1-2. Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

3-5-ETS1-3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users

Identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them

Investigate new and emerging technologies

MS-ETS1-2. Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Learning to plan and organize work processes

Practicing decision making

Practicing versatile ways of working

Practicing to notice causal connections

Learning to build information on top of previously learned

Learning to combine information to find new innovations

Encouraging to build new information and visions

Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations

Developing problem solving skills

Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements

Practicing creative thinking

Practicing to use arts as a way to express

Practicing persistent working

Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself

Practicing to evaluate one's own learning

Using technology resources for problem solving

Understanding technological system operations through making

Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process

Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life

Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.

Evaluating and applying information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems

Using information technology to create programs, systems and a range of content

Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.

Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.

Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school.

Understand and use electrical systems in their products

Understand and use mechanical systems in their products

Apply computing and use electronics to embed intelligence in products that respond to inputs, and control outputs, using programmable components

KUBO Coding

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Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.

Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities

Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms

Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms

Practicing to use foreign language as a communication tool

Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability

Learning to listen other people’s opinions

Practicing to work with others

Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners

Practicing to notice links between subjects learned

Learning to face failures and disappointments

Develop and apply their analytic, problem-solving, design, and computational thinking skills.

Understand the hardware and software components that make up computer systems.

Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation.

Design and develop modular programs that use procedures or functions.

Learn to analyse problems in computational terms

Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.

Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.

Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.

Create and debug simple programs.

Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.

Can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

Can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems.

Practicing strategic thinking

Practicing  to use imagination and to be innovative

Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas

Creating requirements for creative thinking

Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges

Learning to notice causal connections

Practising visual recognition

Practicing fine motor skills

Using technology as a part of explorative process

Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making

Apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control their products.

Explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.

Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.

Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.

Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.

Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures.

Understand and use electrical systems in their products [for example, series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors].

Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.

Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.

Explore and evaluate a range of existing products.

Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.

Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety

Encouraging the growth of positive self-image

Practicing to look things from different perspectives

Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative

Practicing to improvise

Practicing categorization and classification

Learning to use foreign language in work context

Robo Wunderkind

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Understanding and applying the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation

Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources

Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology

Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life

Understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices, and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions.

Analysing problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems

Practicing to be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology

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Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately.

Understand and use mechanical systems in their products [for example, gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages].

Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing].

Develop their capability, creativity and knowledge in computer science, digital media and information technology.

Use logical reasoning to compare the utility of alternative algorithms for the same problem.

Use two or more programming languages, at least one of which is textual, to solve a variety of computational problems.

Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices.

Understand simple Boolean logic and some of its uses in circuits and programming.

Understand several key algorithms that reflect computational thinking.

Understand how numbers can be represented in binary, and be able to carry out simple operations on binary numbers.

Understand how data of various types can be represented and manipulated digitally, in the form of binary digits.

Learn to evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks accurately

Encouraging positive attitude towards working life

Understand simple Boolean logic [for example, AND, OR and NOT] and some of its uses in circuits and programming; understand how numbers can be represented in binary, and be able to carry out simple operations on binary numbers.

Understand the hardware and software components that make up computer systems, and how they communicate with one another and with other systems.

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Can describe him/herself, what he/she does and where he/she lives.

Can ask and answer questions about themselves and other people, where they live, people they know, things they have.

Can ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.

Can understand everyday expressions aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type, delivered directly to him/her in clear, slow and repeated speech by a sympathetic speaker.

Can interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing and repair. Can ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.

Can understand enough to be able to meet needs of a concrete type provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated.

Can understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment) provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated.

Can understand instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions.

Can follow speech that is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.

Student can understand very short conversations when people speak slowly and clearly.

Student can understand simple, short instructions given by my teacher, e.g. Stand up, please!

Student can understand when somebody is greeting him/her or says good-bye, e.g. Good morning, children!

Student can understand separate words frequently used in conversational phrases (e.g. greetings and farewell).

Student can understand routine phrases such as “please” and “thank you.”

Student can understand simple classroom instructions such as “Sit down”, “Wait”, “Listen”.

Student can make and reply to simple requests.

Student can understand when somebody who is helping him/her tells him/her what to do.

Can recognise words, names and numbers that he/she already knows in simple, short recordings, provided that they are pronounced very slowly and clearly.

Student can understand questions and instructions that the teacher says carefully and slowly to me. I can then answer the questions and follow the instructions.

Student can understand the main point(s) from a short spoken passage, e.g. a short rhyme or song, a telephone message, announcement or weather forecast…

Student can understand when the teacher tells him/her to do something that he/she already knows.

Student Can understand instructions given by the teacher in the classroom, such as ‘You must do this’, ‘Take off your coats.’

Student can have simple daily conversations on what he/she likes and dislikes.

Student can ask and answer simple, short questions about a free-time activity, e.g. I like to go to the cinema. What do you like to do the most?

Student can ask his/her classmates simple, short questions, e.g. What is your favourite colour?

Student can understand simple questions which directly concern him/her, for example about name, age and address, or similar things, if the person is asking slowly and clearly.

Student can n understand simple personal information ( e.g. name, age, place of residence, origin) when other people introduce themselves, provided that they speak slowly and clearly directly to him/her, and can understand questions on this theme addressed to him/her, though the questions may need to be repeated.

Student can ask someone’s name, and say his/her name.

Student can recognise simple greetings.

Student can understand when someone tells me how he/she feels in simple, short sentences, e.g. Today I am fine.

Student can understand when somebody asks him/her for help using simple, short sentences, e.g. Can you help me, please?

Student can ask someone what they like or don’t like.

Student can talk about how he/she feels and also ask others how they feel in simple, short sentences, e.g. I am tired. How are you today?

When people speak, student can understand common phrases and often used words on the topics he/she knows something about.

Student can ask somebody about how they are and what they like doing and answer similar questions.

Student can introduce oneself, his/her family and his/her friends.

Student can greet and farewell in different time slices of a day.

Student can introduce somebody and can use basic greetings and leave taking expressions.

Student can introduce oneself and others in simple, short sentences, e.g. My name is Peter. I live in …

Student can greet somebody and say good-bye in simple and short sentences, e.g. Good bye, Mr Miller!

Student can introduce his/her friend: student can say his/her name, age, where he/she lives, what he/she likes to do.

Student can introduce oneself, say his/her name, and answer simple questions about oneself if people speak slowly and clearly (e.g. "What’s your name?" "How old are you?" "What grade are you in?", “How many brothers and sisters do you have?” etc.).

Student can greet and say goodbye to an adult or my friend using the correct words to match a certain time of the day (e.g., “Hello,” “Good morning,” “Good afternoon,” “Good evening,” “Goodbye,” “Have a nice trip,” “See you tomorrow,” etc.).

Student can say hello and goodbye to his/her teachers and classmates.

When someone talks to the student clearly and slowly he/she can say his/her name, his/her age, where he/she lives, his/her birthday.

Student can greet and respond to a greeting.

Student can introduce oneself and other people.

Student can ask and answer questions about a person, family, and interests.

Student can understand a range of familiar spoken phrases, e.g. basic phrases concerning myself, my family and school…

Student can understand when somebody talks about their family or friends in simple sentences.

Student can ask someone if they have brothers or sisters. [

Student can understand simple instructions given by the teacher during the class (“Stand up”, “Sit down”, “Come in”, “Go out”, “Say”, “Listen”, “Give me the book”, “Take it”, etc.)

Student can identify familiar words and phrases.

Student can understand some words in songs and rhymes.

Student can understand simple instructions (“Open your book!”, “Come to the board!”, “Stop!”, “Run!”, …)

Student can recognise shapes and categories.

Student can understand some words and phrases in songs and simple children’s poems.

Student can understand when my friends tell me how to play a game.

Student can can understand a few familiar spoken words and phrases, e.g. the teacher’s instructions, a few words and phrases in a song or a rhyme, days of the week, colours or numbers…

Student can understand when the teacher tells me to do something that I already know.

Student can understand the words for the main places in the town or village where he/she lives.

Practicing to recognize and express feelings

Student can understand some words and phrases he/she hears on TV programmes.

Student can understand when somebody introduces his/her family or friends to me, e.g. This is my mother.

Student  can understand when someone tells me how he/she feels in simple, short sentences, e.g. Today I am fine.

Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health

Student can understand when somebody asks me for help using simple, short sentences, e.g. Can you help me, please?

Student can understand everyday words and sentences in children’s films, cartoons, tales, advertisements and announcements.

Practicing memorizing skills

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Makeblock Neuron is a programmable electronic building block platform for STEM education. It contains over 30 kinds of blocks with different functions, so creators can build a variety of innovative projects. 
Neuron can be used both offline and online. The Flow-Based Programming is accessed via the Neuron App and Neuron can also be programmed using mBlock. Both enable advanced features like IoT and Microsoft Cognitive Services. The blocks are compatible with other Makeblock products and other platforms too. Neuron is accompanied by ready to go projects and tutorials, making it easy to get started.

Makeblock Neuron

Makeblock Neuron is a programmable electronic building block platform.

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