The lack of appropriate training, resources and materials discourage primary education teachers from adopting problem-based learning and active learning methodologies in their lesson planning. Even though a problem-based approach would work seamlessly to learn physical computing, it is common to see teachers placing increased focus on the theory, and harming the hands-on experience, which becomes typically poorly designed. Activity cards have been used successfully as a resource to engage students in their learning by proposing challenges with brief orientations. This article shares the results reached by the authors of this practice by using their own designed activity cards centered on physical computing, with an open-ended problem-based approach holding different complexity tracks and relatively simple challenges.

Teaching physical computing with activity cards and online simulators

[Conference proceedings](https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/transforming-pbl-through-hybrid-learning-models-timely-challenges)