Curated starting point

For middle-school teachers and tutors

Plan an Arduino lesson or classroom project.

Rudi is a free planning tool for teaching with the Arduino Uno classroom kit. It provides a step-by-step beginner lesson and shows how the same skills can contribute to a larger team project.

Not sure where to start? Try the 45-minute lesson. It introduces a button, an LED, simple Arduino code, testing, and an engineering notebook using one kit.

What you choose

Your classroom situation

Tell Rudi how much time you have, how many students and kits you have, and how experienced the students are.

What Rudi provides

A lesson you can inspect

Review the parts, wiring, working Arduino code, teaching prompts, tests, troubleshooting notes, and student notebook questions.

Where it can lead

A shared class project

See how separate student teams could connect buttons, lights, sensors, and motors to build one Rube Goldberg chain reaction.