Lessons you assign. Projects your students build.
Every lesson turns a topic into an interactive story or game — with a complete, standards-aligned Teacher Kit.
Grades 3–4Tree Life Cycle Animated Story 🍃
Engage students in the life cycle of a tree through research and storytelling. In this lesson, students will research a specific tree species and create an interactive story using Elementari. The story will follow the tree's journey from seed to maturity, incorporating coding animations and interactive elements to bring the story to life. Scaffolded sentence starters and fill-in-the-blanks will guide students through the writing process.
Grades 3–8Shark Lady Explorer Game 🦈
Create an interactive game inspired by "Shark Lady." Students will design a marine environment game where a character moves using buttons, and sharks move randomly across the screen. They will code animations, use number variables for random positions, and implement collision detection for a game-over condition.
Grades K–4Growing Tree: Code Speech 🌱
Code an interactive story where a magical tree grows when specific words are spoken. Students will design their story with images and backgrounds, write a "Tree Keeper Promise" to care for trees, and code speech recognition to make their tree respond to their voice. This lesson combines coding with creative storytelling, making it ideal for an Earth Day and Arbor Day activity.
Grades K–4Letter Matching Game 📚
Code an exciting game where players drag lowercase letters to match their uppercase counterparts. Students will design their game, record their voices, add sound effects and background music, and learn to integrate these elements with code. Encourage students to share their creations with peers and younger friends, fostering a collaborative and interactive learning environment.
Grades 3–4Fairytale Remix: Code 🏰
Students will remix classic fairy tales into original narratives by reconfiguring story elements and characters. They will structure their stories and enhance them with digital skills, coding background music and voiceovers on Elementari. Students will finish by publishing, sharing, and commenting on each other's stories!
Grades K–4My Life: Coding Narrative 🌟
Write a personal narrative that captures the essence of their daily routines, activities, and experiences. Students will select significant moments to highlight, making their stories engaging and reflective of their personal lives. Additionally, students will enhance their stories by adding background music, bringing their narratives to life.
Grades 7–10Choose Your Path: Climate 🌍
Dive into environmental storytelling with this lesson, where students address climate issues by designing a "Choose Your Own Adventure." They'll pick a problem—like biodiversity loss, water scarcity, deforestation, climate change, or pollution—and craft stories with choices leading to different environmental outcomes, showcasing the significance of our actions on the planet.
Grades 3–8Spy Story: Invisible Ink 🔥
Embark on a captivating adventure into the secret world of spies and invisible ink, inspired by Josephine Baker's remarkable espionage during World War II. In this interactive lesson, students will write a narrative hook and code a hidden message to reveal by dragging an object over it, blending history with the magic of coding.
Grades 7–10Dance Puzzle: Code Game 💃
Students will design and code an interactive game where players solve a dance sequence puzzle. This project will teach students how to use conditional logic, text variables, and animations. They will also create a riddle that hints at the correct sequence of moves: left, right, jump, enhancing their storytelling and coding skills.
Grades 7–10Historical Truths Game 🎓
Design and code an engaging true/false interactive game about a historical figure - combining interactive slides with true/false choices, a dynamic scoring system, and conditional logic. Students will research historical facts, then apply coding concepts to track scores and direct game outcomes based on player responses. This lesson merges historical inquiry with computational thinking.
Grades K–4Josephine Baker: Writing 🐆
Dive into the colorful world of Josephine Baker, an incredible dancer, singer, actress, World War II spy, and pilot. Students will learn about her extraordinary life and imagine how Josephine might have come to befriend her cheetah through a creative story, blending facts with their imaginations.
Teacher PD for Lessons
This lesson is designed for K-12 educators, offering a practical, step-by-step guide to creating interactive stories from a student's viewpoint. Educators will learn essential skills such as story design, basic visual coding, and the publishing process, all through immersive student-centered activities.