A ready lesson for every STEM period: how Cretile's curriculum and LMS work

Every Cretile kit comes with a grade-wise curriculum and lifetime access to Cretile's learning platform (LMS). For every project, a teacher gets a video tutorial, a step-by-step guide and class slides, plus a guide showing where it maps to NEP 2020, CBSE and ICSE. So the teacher isn't designing a robotics course from scratch. They open next week's lesson the night before and run it.

Kits are rarely the reason a school STEM lab goes quiet. Lessons are. A teacher with a full timetable can't write a new hands-on lesson every week, so the lab gets used when someone has spare time, and then not at all. A curriculum that's already written, period by period, is what keeps it on the timetable.

What should a robotics curriculum for schools include?

A good school robotics curriculum gives teachers four things: projects in a set order for each grade, a lesson for each project that fits one class period, a way to see where it fits the syllabus, and material the teacher can show the class. Without all four, the teacher ends up writing the course themselves.

What does a teacher get on the Cretile LMS?

Lifetime access, free with every kit, to a session plan, class presentation, step-by-step guide and video tutorial for every project, plus a quiz and the curriculum mapping.

• Session plans. What to teach in each session, in order, broken into timed steps. A new teacher can pick it up and run a class from day one.
• Class presentations. Slides for every session, with the concept, the questions to ask and real-world examples already laid out. The teacher projects them and teaches straight through.
• Step-by-step guides. Illustrated building steps students can follow on their own, so the teacher can move around the room and help where it's needed.
• Video tutorials. A video of the full build for every session. Teachers watch it the night before, or play it in class so everyone follows the same steps.
• Quizzes. A short quiz after a lesson, so the teacher can see what the class understood.
• Curriculum mapping. Where each project connects to the school syllabus, grade by grade.

Access doesn't expire. A school that bought kits three years ago still opens the same lessons today, and new teachers can use them from their first week.

What does curriculum mapping look like?

For each project, the mapping shows the grade, the board, the subject and the textbook chapter it supports, with a short summary of what students already learned in that chapter.

Take the project "Introduction to electronic circuits". Its mapping points to:

So a coordinator can show exactly where the lab supports the science syllabus, and a science teacher can run the project in the same week as the chapter. That's what makes the lab part of the school's teaching, not an extra.

How is a year of lessons laid out?

Each kit comes with a fixed set of projects for each grade, so a school can plan the year before it starts.

The projects build on each other. Younger students start with what each block does and how a circuit works. Older students move on to robotics, coding, Internet of Things (IoT) projects, phone apps and introductory AI, using NetLogic, the programmable block.

How does a lesson fit into a 40-minute period?

Each project is designed to be finished in one 40-minute class period, and its session plan splits the time into timed steps. Here's the plan for the first session, "Introduction to basic electronic circuit", where students learn the basics of Cretile modules and the obstacle sensor:

Other projects split the period differently, but the shape stays the same: introduce the idea, build and test, then talk about why it works. Because a project fits one period, a lesson never spills into next week, and a missed week doesn't break the sequence. The plan is a guide, not a script: teachers can slow down, repeat a project, or let a class go further.

Because a project fits one period, a lesson never spills into next week, and a missed week doesn't break the sequence. The plan is a guide, not a script: teachers can slow down, repeat a project, or let a class go further.

Does a teacher need training to use the curriculum?

Yes. Cretile trains the trainers at our EdTech partners, and they train the teachers in each school. Training covers the kit, the projects and a walkthrough of the LMS, so the teacher knows where everything is before the first class.

In Rajkot, Gujarat, our trainer spent two days with 5 teachers. Day 1 was building projects. Day 2 covered NetLogic, programming, MIT App Inventor and a walkthrough of the LMS and its resources. The goal was for them to teach with Cretile without relying on support.

We've trained more than 10,000 teachers, and training is the main reason partners choose Cretile. See how it works in our guide to STEM teacher training for schools.

Why does a ready curriculum matter more than the kit?

Because the kit only gets used if there's a lesson to run with it. A school can buy excellent equipment and still have an empty lab if every period has to be planned from nothing.

Most teachers who run STEM labs don't come from a technical background, and they shouldn't have to become engineers or course designers to do it. The kit makes the build simple: Cretile blocks are magnetic, with no soldering and no wrong connections. The curriculum makes the lesson simple. Together they turn "we have a lab" into "every section has a STEM period every week".

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What to ask any supplier about their curriculum

FAQ

Does Cretile provide a robotics curriculum for schools? Yes. Every Cretile kit comes with a grade-wise curriculum: a fixed list of projects, each with a session plan, video tutorial, step-by-step guide, class presentation and quiz, plus curriculum mapping to NEP 2020, CBSE and ICSE.

What is included in the Cretile LMS? Session plans, class presentations, step-by-step guides, video tutorials, quizzes and curriculum mapping for every project. Access is free and lifetime with every kit.

Is Cretile's curriculum mapped to CBSE and ICSE? Yes. Cretile provides curriculum mapping guides for NEP 2020, CBSE and ICSE.

How many projects are there per grade? It depends on the kit. TinkerBlock has 25 projects for each of Grades 1 to 3. The Mini School Kit has six courses of 24 projects for Grades 4 to 10.

Does LMS access expire? No. Every kit purchase includes lifetime access.

Are there student books? Yes. Add-on student books are available for every kit.

Get started

Order one kit and use it for 8 weeks, with full access to the LMS. If it isn't right for your school, we arrange the pickup and a full refund.

Or tell us your grades and how many sections you want to run, and we'll connect you with the Cretile partner nearest you.

Related: How Cretile blocks work · STEM teacher training for schools · What a STEM lab is, and what goes into one

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