Celebrate the holidays and the new year with hands-on STEM lessons! Incorporate coding challenges, snowboarding adventures, and healthy habit activities into your classroom. For older students, our AI lessons offer opportunities to explore real-world data, ethical decision-making, and LLM-powered projects. Check out this month’s featured lessons to bring these activities to life in your classroom.
Evo Lessons
The Snow Plow
Students will design and build a mini snow plow for Ozobot and put it to the test. Using Ozobot Blockly, they will program their bot to navigate a roadway and clear “snow” efficiently.
- Grades: 5-8
- Subjects: Computer Science, Engineering/Tech
- Academic Standards: CCSS, CSTA, ISTE
OzoClaus
In this activity, students use Color Codes to map out an efficient delivery route for Santa, visiting every house while navigating around mischievous, present-stealing elves—all before Christmas morning arrives.
- Grades: 1-3
- Subjects: Computer Science, Engineering/Tech
- Academic Standards: CSTA, ISTE
Catch the Gingerbread Man
In this STEM lesson, students will use Ozobot Blockly to design and program strategies for a thrilling game of tag between the Gingerbread Man and the fox. Run, run as fast as you can!
- Grades: K-2
- Subjects: Computer Science
- Academic Standards: ISTE, CSTA
My Favorite Holiday Dish
Students will pick a favorite holiday dish and create a “how-to” guide. They will program Ozobot with Color Codes to navigate each step and bring their recipe to life through coding.
- Grades: K-2
- Subjects: Computer Science, ELA, Art
- Academic Standards: CCSS, ISTE, CSTA
Countdown to the New Year
Students will reflect on their favorite memories from the past year and program Ozobot to take a “memory lane” countdown to the new year in 30 seconds.
- Grades: 1-5
- Subjects: Computer Science, SEL/Digital Citizenship
- Academic Standards: ISTE, CSTA
New Year’s Resolutions
Students will build an Ozobot Blockly program along with a matching key to represent their resolutions. They will then interpret their peers’ programs to determine how often each resolution appears.
- Grades: 3-6
- Subjects: Computer Science, Engineering/Tech
- Academic Standards: ISTE, CSTA
OzoSlopes
In this lesson, students will build a mountain slope and use Color Code markers to create a track for Ozobot, complete with tricks and jumps for a skiing or snowboarding adventure.
- Grades: 2-5
- Subjects: Science, Computer Science, Engineering/Tech
- Academic Standards: NGSS, ISTE, CSTA
Healthy Habits
In this lesson, students will explore which healthy habits they want to bring into the new year and which ones they are already practicing. They will use Ozobot Blockly to guide Ozobot around a healthy habit tracker.
- Grades: K-3
- Subjects: Computer Science, SEL/Digital Citizenship
- Academic Standards: CSTA, ISTE
AI Lessons
AI-Powered Population Maps
In this lesson, students will use the LLM block to collect real-world population and land area data from 10 different countries. They will calculate population density, rank countries from most to least crowded, and create an AI-powered population map.
- Grades: 6-8
- Subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies, Computer Science, Engineering/Tech, SEL/Digital Citizenship, AI
- Academic Standards: CSTA, ISTE, NGSS
Digital Zoologists: Researching with the LLM Block
In this AI lesson, students will become digital zoologists by using the LLM block to research animals and create a field report. They will test the LLM’s accuracy by asking a variety of questions with different output types and program Ozobot’s behavior based on the responses.
- Grades: 6-8
- Subjects: Science, Computer Science, Engineering/Tech, Digital Citizenship, AI
- Academic Standards: ISTE, CSTA
Elective Algorithm Design
In this lesson, students will compare their own class scheduling decisions with those made by AI to explore potential biases in the algorithm. They will then design ethical decision trees and use Ozobot Color Codes to model fair and equitable outcomes.
- Grades: 6-8
- Subjects: Computer Science, AI
- Academic Standards: CCSS, ISTE, CSTA
Invisible Inputs: Analyzing Bias in AI Healthcare Tools
Students will explore how biased proxy data caused a healthcare algorithm to underestimate the needs of certain patient groups. They will analyze the case, debate questions of fairness, and use Color Codes to model how different design choices impact equity in AI.
- Grades: 9-12
- Subjects: Computer Science, AI
- Academic Standards: CSTA, ISTE, NGSS
Patterns Not Memory: How LLMs Work
Students will use skip counting to identify patterns and make predictions. They will then program Ozobot to complete a pattern, gaining a hands-on understanding of how LLMs work.
- Grades: 3-5
- Subjects: Math, Computer Science, AI
- Academic Standards: NGSS, CSTA, CCSS
