Use this slide deck to facilitate your own professional development sessions.

• This slide deck is designed as an introduction to Sphero indi.
• Time required: 60 minutes
• Participants will need:
• an indi student kit (indi, color tiles, challenge cards),
• basic craft supplies for literacy and mathematics activities (tape, scissors, markers, color paper or cardstock, pipe cleaners, and any other craft supplies that are readily available.
• Each slide has presenter notes to help guide your presentation.
• Make a copy or download as a PowerPoint Presentation to adapt for your own needs.

Presenter Notes

Meet Sphero indi

© Sphero, Inc. 2024. All Rights Reserved.

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• What is indi?
• Computational Thinking for Primary
• indi Challenge Cards
• Curricula Ideas
• Kit Reset
• What’s next

Agenda

Find a partner.

Grab an indi student kit

Decorate your indi

Explore, tinker, & play

No devices needed

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Your Goal: �Figure out how indi works!

Play is a Powerful Teacher

• Color sensor
• Motors
• LEDs
• Audio
• Charging

How indi Works

Pillars of Computational Thinking

Generating logical sequences to solve problems

Simplifying problems into manageable parts

Identifying and analyzing trends and patterns

Representing complicated systems with simple models

Computational Thinking Reflection

How did you use Computational Thinking while exploring indi?

indi Challenge Cards

Find a partner and solve this challenge card.

Challenge Card A

This challenge has multiple correct answers.

Question mark:

1. Yellow or green
2. Blue
3. Pink
4. Red, Purple or if creating a loop pink

Challenge Card A Solution

Find a partner and solve this challenge card.

Challenge Card B

This challenge has multiple correct answer.

Question mark:

• Blue
• Orange
• Pink
• Yellow or Green
• Blue

Challenge Card B Solution

Literacy with indi

Literacy

• Print Concepts (letter identification)
• Phonological awareness (CVC words, onsets/rimes)
• Phonics & Word recognition (letter/sound correspondence, sight word recognition)
• Fluency (reading emergent reader texts)
• Key ideas & details of a story (retelling)

Conventions of Standard English:

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Fluency

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Fluency

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Fluency

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STORYTELLING

• Think of your favorite story to teach your classes
• Transform indi into the main character
• Use a 2nd indi if you want to have 2 characters
• Pick a section of the story out (or think of the whole story arc) and program indi to tell the story
• Challenges
• Find a way to reuse at least one tile
• Must contain at least 4 turn commands

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Math with indi

Math

• Number identification & count sequencing
• Cardinality
• Count to tell the number of objects
• Comparing numbers
• Shape identification
• Color identification
• Pattern recognition

Count sequencing / rote counting

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Addition (or other math operations)

indi Challenge

Task: indi is playing a game to collect points based on the colors it crosses (shown below). Unlike other games, as Indi crosses a color, it adds the points to get a total score.

Use different paths for each level of the game to:

1. Determine which colors will be needed to complete the missing parts of the path.

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2. Determine the total points for each path.

Find the sum of your path for the total points indi collects

Addition

indi Challenge

1^st Unknown tile color:

2^nd Unknown tile color:

Total points for Level 1:

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Addition

Indi Challenge

1^st Unknown tile color:

2^nd Unknown tile color:

Total points for Level 2:

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Kit Reset

KIT RESET

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x2

x2

x1

x3

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x3

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• 20 Durable Tiles
• Challenge Cards #1-15
• indi
• Charging Cable
• Sticker Sheets

indi Resources

Additional Resources

https://edu.sphero.com/indi