microbit.org Teach section
The micro:bit Teach section at https://www.microbit.org/teach offers a wealth of information to help you get started.
Featured
There are four tabs in the Teach section; the first, called 'Featured', shows the latest information on current campaigns and new resources. It highlights CBBC brands and classroom activities in a user-friendly layout, helping you find information quickly.
Resources
The Resources tab includes the Lessons page, which allows you to organise resources by educational topic or programming language. These are curriculum-linked units of work designed for planning and teaching computing in primary and secondary schools in England (KS2 and KS3). The do your:bit page combines the micro:bit with the UN’s Global Goals to offer inspiring classroom activities and an engaging digital challenge to help you develop world-changing ideas and solutions using technology. The Classroom resources page provides support for your classroom teaching with the micro:bit, including student handouts, reward certificates, and wall display materials.
Teaching tools
The Teaching tools page showcases our resources that assist with teaching and learning using the BBC micro:bit, including guidance for organising successful and creative classroom sessions.
Courses and Events
The Courses and Events tab includes the Professional Development page, which offers free courses for all teachers and educators. Using brief and friendly videos, our courses cover a variety of topics related to computing and the micro:bit. They also provide valuable teaching resources, including workbooks, activity plans, posters, and learner activity sheets—the Events page lists our live online events.
We look forward to welcoming you to any of our free webinars, student code-alongs and other events.
support.microbit.org
Our support site, managed by Foundation staff, offers dedicated email assistance to teachers, students, developers and resellers. Reach out by opening a ticket.
Microsoft Makecode
The Microsoft MakeCode tool contains a range of resources on its home page. You will find links to our resources (also available on microbit.org) by scrolling down the homepage to Make it: code it Examples, Data Logging Examples, First Lessons with MakeCode and the micro:bit, and the CreateAI tool. Microsoft also has a separate dedicated Microsoft Learn Educator Centre site, where you can dive deeper into a wealth of computing topics.
Awesome micro:bit
'Awesome micro:bit' is a carefully curated list of micro:bit-related resources, including an ever-expanding section on teaching resources. It's hosted on GitHub, an online code repository. All relevant micro:bit repositories, including repositories we use to track support issues, are listed in the following article, which covers GitHub repositories.
CAS
The Computing at School (CAS) community is aimed at teachers and other educators in the UK. There is a simple, free sign-up process to become a member. You have to provide some form of independently verifiable means that you are a teacher or an educator to become a member. Searching for 'microbit' or 'micro:bit' will provide a long list of resources, events, and discussion blogs.