Home-Schooling Lesson Plans - Micro:bit Hardware (PDF download)

What's for sale?

A PDF download of a Home-Schooling lesson plan for the Micro:Bit Computer!





What is the lesson plan about?

Engage your children in, and help them learn to program, the BBC Micro:bit computer! In our first lesson, we programmed the Micro:bit with a simulator (software), so no purchase was required, other than this lesson plan. Now, we'll use a real Micro:bit computer, so you'll need to purchase the Micro:bit computer (hardware) separately from this lesson plan. Further details on how to purchase the hardware is in the lesson plan.

The BBC Micro:bit is a must-have in STEM homeschooling for your children. It is a low-cost Single Board Computer (SBC) coupled with a block-based drag-and-drop graphical programming application on a computer. This combination allows your children to pick up these lessons and run with them, with no previous training in programming or SBC hardware.

You have no children, or they’ve grown up and moved out? Not a problem, as these lesson plans are useful for learning programming with SBC’s yourself, or as a gift to those in your life with children, be they your kids with families of their own, or friends raising children.

Programming such as this is a stair-stepping aid to learning to program in other languages, such as Python. Your children could go on to making a career out of programming, or use programming as an income-producing sideline! In fact, the programming editor you’ll be using in this lesson supports Python as an alternative. If nothing else, it is VERY entertaining!

I'm all in ... how do I purchase?

Via the wonderful permies.com digital marketplace, just scroll down and purchase the PDF download!

I've purchased it, and my kids love it, but ...

If, after purchasing and using this PDF, you think it can be better in any way, just send a Purple Mooseage with your request! While not guaranteed, and at our discretion, we'll review the request and determine if we can send you a new PDF with the requested changes!

Please also send us a Purple Mooseage if you have suggestions for other kinds of lesson plans, such as for the Arduino, Raspberry PI, or other nifty electronic devices! We're producing them left and right, on varied topics, but the number of requests might help us prioritize things!

JT:  Thanks for the heads up about the micro:bit I had not seen that one before.   Tom

Thanks for the thumbs up!

We find the Micro:bit to be very powerful and useful, even outside the classroom;  it's a joy to do these lesson plans, but it's *way* more interesting to see what the children have come up with as additional projects!

Add to that the Permies Marketplace, which allows us to share them with everyone else ... a winning combination!