We plan to work with a group of 11-12 year olds with the Arduino Starter Kit in our local school to further STEM education. I'm sure this has been done by many people and there are some great resources online to do this but we have not found this yet with our searching.
I would really appreciate it if any users in this group could point me at what they think is a good starter course for 11-12 year olds that we could start from for our local STEM group.
We have the Arduino Starter Kit and the educators both have PhDs, so the actual kit itself makes total sense to us and is a great resource, but we have no experience (0, zero, nada, nil) bringing concepts like circuits to children. So if there are resources that start with the basics and then build from their for this age group, it would be a great resource to draw from.
Many thanks for your help on this and I hope I am posting into the correct forum as this is my first post.
Give us a list of components included in the kit(s).
Kids like flashing coloured lights, moving motors, push button switches that cause things to happen, remote control devices, sound effects, robots (line followers?) etc.
What do you want to cover? Circuits, electricity (DC/AC, current, voltage), motor controls & transistors & H-bridges, sensors, LEDs, programming... Just to name a few topics.
How about skills like soldering, which are quite essential for this hobby?
I think best is to come up with an end goal: build a robot or so, something complete. Start with Blink, work your way along the different aspects of building that robot (the sensors needed, the motor controls, etc) and in the end put it all together.
