The Hour of Code is Dec 4-10!
Resources, links & ideas to get your students coding.
What is The Hour of Code?
Flipgrid Explorer Series: Code
For the next Flipgrid Explorer Series, we wanted to try something a bit different. We know that many of you are working on coding projects with your learners, so we thought, who better to be our next Flipgrid Explorers than our very own developers, Liz Maddy and Paul Conlin. During this two-week series, Liz and Paul will talk about computer science, how they got into coding, and what that means on a day-to-day basis here at Flipgrid HQ.
Join us December 4 - 15 to talk about coding, the design process, and how an idea becomes a functional feature in Flipgrid. In addition to sharing their expertise, Liz and Paul will ask your students to discuss a project their working on, taking it from ideation to reflection over the two weeks. Here is the Topic overview for the Series:
- Pre-Knowledge, live now: What questions do you have about computer science? Developers? Coding?
- The Source Code, December 4-15: Here Liz and Paul will share their story and lives as developers!
- Week 1, December 4-8: The logic of coding is all around us! Share a project you're working on! What problem are you trying to solve and what are the challenges? Don't have a project you're working on? No problem, let us know: what's a piece of technology that you have that your teacher did not have at your age? How has this technology changed our lives?
- Week 2, December 11-15: Showcase your project! What was your goal? What challenges did you overcome? What was the end result? If you don't have a project, no problem: let us know what technology advancement do you think will come next?
- Debugging, December 4-15: Share your questions for Liz and Paul in this Topic; they’ll answer as many as they can!
- Reflection, December 15: What's something you learned about computer science?
If you’re interested in joining this Explorer Series, please let us know at: code@flipgrid.com.
Join the discussion now: flipgrid.com/code http://blog.flipgrid.com/news/code
Explorer Series: Code HyperDoc Companion
Coding on a Computer: Online Coding Activities You Can Use Tomorrow
No Computer? No Problem!
Hello Ruby My First Computer
Design and build your very own computer! Get to know the CPU, RAM and ROM, Mass Storage and GPU. hourofcode.com/us/learn
My Robotic Friends
The Little Artist In Your Computer
Got Robots? Get Hands-On With the Hour of Code!
Dash the Collector
Use the Wonder Workshop Blockly app and Dash the robot to tackle 3 coding challenges! In this series of challenges, you will help Dash collect different objects like seashells and candy. hourofcode.com/us/learn/robotics
Dash the Collector Challenge CardsThe OzoBlockly Tutorial
Makey Makey Hour of Code
Coding with Coding Cards
Coding Cards from Tickle
Scratch Coding Blocks
Scratch Jr Coding Blocks
MORE Teacher Resources
Gearing Up for Hour of Code – GTT030
How to teach one Hour of Code
Join the movement and introduce a group of students to their first hour of computer science with these steps.
A Beginner’s Guide to Bringing Coding Into the Classroom
The Hour of Curiosity is a set of free lesson plans, professional development activities, videos and more developed to support student engagement, 21st century education and STEAM via @mraspinall.
Code Breaker Book
Go Beyond the Hour of Code!
Have fun and happy coding!
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