K-12, now with Medical Robotics
Our grab-and-go curriculum helps every teacher deliver hands-on robotics with confidence from day one. Every True Robotics lesson is ready in our Teacher Digital Portal with a lesson plan, a PowerPoint with how-to videos, and answer keys. Most teachers report about five minutes of prep.
We write each program in our K-12 Classroom Suite for its own grade band, with a version for every grade it covers, so your students build on what they know. Pilot and Axle also include a General version for mixed-grade groups such as afterschool clubs. Here are the big ideas in each one.
Our newest curriculum is Medical Robotics, our 2027 course for grades 8 to 12.
All four of our programs, from Treads to Medical Robotics, are aligned to your state’s standards and to national standards, grade by grade. See how each of our programs lines up with your standards.
Each of our units is a hands-on mix of lessons. Your students program their robot, build it themselves in Pilot and Axle, and use it to practice the math, science, and ELA skills they are learning in class. Here is how the lessons add up in each program.
25 lessons
9 ELA lessons
8 programming lessons
8 math lessons
Treads arrives built, so there are no building lessons: your students drive it on day one.
25 lessons
11 programming lessons
4 science lessons
4 robotics and engineering lessons
3 building lessons
3 math lessons
45 lessons
18 programming lessons
11 science lessons
8 math lessons
5 robotics and engineering lessons
3 building lessons
These counts are a starting point. When your school has fewer days, our curriculum team builds a scope and sequence with your teachers that fits your calendar and your goals. See how we plan it with you.
Our curriculum team writes every lesson so your teachers can walk in and teach it. Every lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan, a ready-made PowerPoint, and the materials your students need, all waiting in our Curriculum Portal.
| Resource | What it gives your teacher |
|---|---|
| Detailed lesson plan | Objectives, the lesson's vocabulary, and recommended activities, with timings |
| Pre-built PowerPoint | A ready-to-teach presentation with how-to videos, compatible with Google Slides |
| Entrance ticket and reflection | A hook to start the lesson and a wrap-up to end it |
| Answer keys, worksheets, graphic organizers | Programming answer keys for programming lessons; worksheets or graphic organizers for math and science lessons; teacher copies with the answers |
| PDF and Word versions | Print as is or edit for accommodations; both work with Google Classroom |
Our Treads lessons run about 30 minutes and our Pilot and Axle lessons 45 to 60 minutes, so they fit the period your teachers already have.
The first time your students try anything new, a short video in our PowerPoint shows them exactly what to do, often a screen recording of our own software. That makes it easy for a teacher who is new to robotics to learn right alongside the class.
Here is Introduction to Programming, a 4th grade lesson from our Taking Off with Pilot curriculum. The plan opens with three objectives and the lesson’s vocabulary (Programming, Drive blocks), then walks your teacher through each activity with its timing.
Everything your teacher needs for that lesson is already written, right down to the ready-made presentation, so they can open the folder and teach.
Our Teacher Digital Portal is your teachers’ home base for everything True Robotics. The Curriculum Portal holds every lesson they teach from, and the Learning Portal holds our self-paced training they can take on their own time.
Your teachers don’t need any robotics experience to get started. We give every licensed teacher a 30-minute intro session and one-on-one training, held virtually, and your school works with a dedicated person from the True Robotics team as its point of contact. See how we train your teachers.
Open the Teacher Digital PortalFour tiles, just as your teachers see them:
Our software
Your students code each of our robots in True Robotics Playground at app.truerobotics.org, snapping drag-and-drop blocks together to program it. There are no student logins, so class time goes to coding instead of passwords.
We price curriculum licensing and professional development separately and bundle them into Classroom Packages at a discount. Prices subject to change.
Our robot kits are reusable year after year, so one set can serve many classes across your school. We would be happy to put together a quote for you.
Request a QuoteYour teachers find every True Robotics lesson in our Teacher Digital Portal, which they sign in to from our website. Our portal has two main resources: the Curriculum Portal, with all of our teaching resources, and the Learning Portal, with all of our training. When a teacher opens a program, they see every grade they have access to, and Pilot and Axle add a General curriculum and a FlexForge folder. Each program also has a curriculum map, as a PDF and a Word document.
Very little. Most of the teachers we work with report that prep for a True Robotics lesson takes about five minutes once they understand the flow. Most of that is the PowerPoint loading. Your lesson plan, presentation, entrance ticket, reflection, and answer keys are all ready in our Curriculum Portal, so there is nothing to write. Our goal is to bring your teachers' prep time all the way down to zero.
Every True Robotics lesson comes in PDF and Word format, as well as PowerPoint, and our lessons are compatible with Google Slides and Google Classroom. Your teachers find them all in our online Curriculum Portal. If our PDF works as is, print it and teach from it. If a group of your students needs modifications or accommodations, the editable Word version makes those changes easy.
No. Your teachers need no coding or robotics experience to teach True Robotics, because our lessons and training are built for teachers brand new to robotics. Every teacher starts off with a one-on-one training session, alongside our self-paced Learning Portal. Then every school we work with receives additional professional development, in person, virtually, or both. Every teacher also has an assigned point of contact, and teachers with experience can take a quicker path.
Yes. Every True Robotics program is a great fit for any learning environment, including traditional, alternative, and sub-therapeutic settings, as well as afterschool programs and summer camps. Every lesson file comes as an editable Word document, so your teachers can make modifications and accommodations for different groups of students. Treads works especially well for students who struggle with workbook seat work. Audrey Brooks, a special education teacher in Worcester Public Schools, saw her students applying basic code in a short time.
Tell us about your grades, your calendar, and your goals, and our team will come back with a scope and sequence that fits your school and a quote to match. We would love to hear from you!
