🎓 For teachers
How to bring this course to your class. Just one module, straight to the point: choose a path based on your students’ profile, fit the tracks into sessions, put together kits for each group, lead each session with a ready-to-use plan, keep the lab safe, assess through projects, and track each student’s progress without a platform or server.
How to read this map: the three columns show the natural order of the work: plan before the class arrives (pink), lead the sessions (pink), then assess and track progress (cyan). The glowing circle on the right is the goal of it all: each group finishing its robot. You can jump straight to the topic you need today.
📎 What you’ll take away from this track
Ready-to-use material you can copy into your school planning, with no sign-up or platform required. The templates are in plain text: paste them into your editor and adapt them for your class.
- ✓Five-step session plan, with T1 and T3 examples
- ✓Project rubric: 5 criteria × 4 levels
- ✓Group logbook template
- ✓Kit for each track, with price range
💡 Try it before you teach it
Work through the first module of the track you’ll teach as a student, with the kit in hand. Wherever you get stuck is where your class will get stuck too.
Track map
Detailed content
🎓 How to teach this course
Paths by student profile, session formats, kits and budget, session plan, safety, project-based assessment, inclusion, competitions, BNCC, and progress tracking through Minha jornada.
Which part of the course fits each class: elementary and secondary school, technical school, university, makerspace, and club.
Helps everyone finish a working robot instead of getting stuck on a project that’s too big.
Path · assessment · anchor project · self-directed study.
A matrix showing how far each format goes through the tracks, counting sessions instead of class hours.
Keeps the plan realistic: you know how many sessions you have and can choose what to cover without cutting the project short.
Session · format · extra session · mentor.
The kit for each track for a group of 3 to 4 students, with a price range and options for what to do without a kit.
Buying the wrong thing is the most expensive way to start; standardized kits leave you free to teach.
Kit for each group · spare parts · standardize · rotate between classes.
A five-step plan you can copy, with two ready-to-use examples: LED and HC-SR04 (T1), and detection with YOLO26 (T3).
Saves planning time and keeps hands-on work from turning into a lecture.
Opening · demonstration · hands-on work · challenge · record.
Room zones and bench rules for LiPo and 18650 batteries, soldering, utility knives, and the robotic arm.
A battery or soldering accident can bring the project to a halt across the whole school.
Zones · fire-resistant bag · wheels off the ground · arm area.
A rubric covering operation, documentation, teamwork, safety, and creativity, plus the group logbook.
Assesses the process of building the robot, not just luck with the kit, using criteria set out from the start.
Rubric · logbook · portfolio · feedback.
Wokwi and Gazebo for students without a kit, rotating group roles, and challenges in gradual steps.
Lets students with no experience and no kit finish the project alongside their classmates.
Simulation · builder, programmer, documenter, tester · rotate roles.
OBR, FIRST LEGO League, and others; the three pillars of the BNCC for Computing; students export their progress and you import it.
Gives the class a goal, provides support at school, and shows their study progress, while making the limits of a system without a server clear.
External goal · three pillars · Export .json · private browsing window for each student.
🧰 Kit for the class
This track doesn’t require any new parts: it shows you how to divide the kits from the other tracks among groups of 3 to 4 students. Approximate price ranges per group, Oct 2026; check before buying (prices vary by store, shipping, and exchange rate). Module 6.1 has the complete list.
ESP32, breadboard, sensors, 2 motors and driver, NiMH batteries. About R$ 200 to 400 per group; Wokwi covers the first modules for free.
Adds an IMU, encoder motors and a line sensor array: another R$ 150 to 350 per group.
Raspberry Pi 5 with camera: another R$ 1,100 to 1,900 per group. One set shared by two groups works too.
2D LiDAR on the T3 robot: another R$ 450 to 1,100. You can complete the entire track using Gazebo alone.
SO-101 arm (leader/follower pair): R$ 1,800 to 4,500 for the pair. One per class is usually enough.
Flame-resistant bag for lithium batteries, soldering stand and goggles, cutting mat, and tape to mark the arm’s operating area.
✓ Buy in stages
Start with T1 kits for every group. Get the Raspberry Pi, LiDAR, and arm only when the class reaches those tracks, and preferably share them.
✗ Don’t buy everything at once
Equipment for all five tracks for every group before the first session: much of it will sit unused, and the class may take a different path.