9-12 Hour of Code Resources
Celebrate CSEd Week with an Hour of Code!
What is Hour of Code?
What will YOU create?
Creativity is the theme for the 2018 Hour of Code!
Post to social media with this format:
Creativity is _______ What will you create? #HourOfCode #CS4Aldine #AISDHoC #Allin4Aldine
How do I host an Hour of Code?
- First, Code.org has wonderful resources for you at https://hourofcode.com/us/how-to so be sure to check them out!
- You can also use the Hour of Code planning guide or our AISDCS planning template.
Or, you can follow the steps outlined in the video below:
We picked out a few unplugged (or offline) and online activities we really like for PreK - 2 grade students and shared them below. You can also use MakeyMakeys, BeeBots, Dash and Dots, OzoBots, or Osmo if you already have them in your classroom or school.
Unplugged Activities
CodeHS Pixel Art
Unplugged Activity
After learning about how graphics work, students will create their own Color by Pixel programs. The lesson plan consists of four parts, each covering a specific topic. The entire five-part Color by Pixel lesson is designed to run approximately one hour.
Coding: Conditionals Lesson Plan
Unplugged Activity
This is a lesson plan in which students explore conditional statements, a concept used across coding languages. Students will watch an educational hip-hop video about conditionals and answer discussion questions. They'll then practice determining whether conditions are true and carrying out actions accordingly. Finally, they'll write their own conditional statements and evaluate statements to predict the outcome of programs.
Knight's Tour
Unplugged Activity
This activity involves trying to solve a puzzle using two different representations. To start with it is fairly hard, but when the representation of the board and moves is changed it becomes really easy. Create graphs to represent the problem. See the power of using abstraction and how the choice of representation can make a problem much easier. This activity follows from the Tour Guide activity.
Online (Plugged) Activities
The Processing Foundation - Hello Processing
Self-led Tutorial
What does it mean to write software to do the things that you often do with your hands, with paper, with pencil with paint? Could you use a computer to create drawings? To create animations? To create images?
Khan Academy: Databases
Self-led Tutorial
Khan Academy: Databases teaches you to manipulate data in a database and make your own custom store.
Wonder Woman
Self-led Tutorial
In this activity, you'll code three unique scenes from the film using Blockly, an introductory coding language, to help Wonder Woman navigate obstacles and reach her goal. You'll use the power of sequences, variables, loops and conditionals to help Diana train against her opponents.
Thanks to our friends at Google, 2nd–9th grade public school teachers who engage their students in the new CS First Hour of Code coding activity, An Unusual Discovery, can earn a $100 DonorsChoose.org gift code.
CS First has launched a new activity to celebrate the Hour of Code, a nationwide initiative from Code.org to introduce millions of students to computer science and computer programming, happening on December 3-9. (You can complete your Hour of Code activity anytime, though.)
The new activity, An Unusual Discovery, uses video-based lessons for students with digital lesson plans for teachers - no computer science background required!
Here’s how it works: Classroom rewards for Google’s CS First activity, Hour of Code
- Review the activity overview and teaching materials for An Unusual Discovery here.
- When you’re ready to teach the Hour of Code activity, send your students to g.co/csfirst/discovery to complete the activity. For the Spanish version, head to g.co/csfirst/descubrimiento. (Please note that the Spanish site won’t be live until November 15.)
- The activity takes 20-60 minutes to complete. It starts with an introduction video, and then your students will watch additional videos to learn basic coding principles. They’ll use these skills to tell their own stories about two characters discovering an interesting object.
- Help at least twenty students complete the activity to qualify for the classroom rewards.
- While your students are working, snap a photo that shows your whole class engaged in the activity, but that does not include identifiable student faces. We recommend taking a picture from the back of the class.
- When all your students are done, fill out this teacher feedback survey to let us know. As part of the form, you’ll be asked to upload your photo of the class doing the activity, so be sure to have that image handy.
- Once you’ve filled out the survey, the DonorsChoose.org team will email you a $100 gift code within 2 weeks, while funds last. We’ll update this page if we’re ever running low. For the best chance of receiving a gift code, complete the activity by December 31st, 2018.
Find a Local Computer Science Volunteer
Spread the Word Before, DURING CSEW and Celebrate AFTER your Hour of Code!
Questions? Contact Us!
Hour of Code is a wonderful way to build excitement and provide students and educators opportunities to code! Please contact Shaina Glass if you're interested in incorporating Computer Science and coding into your classroom, school or learning community.
If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Shaina (snglass@aldineisd.org) or your campus' Digital Learning Specialist for more information.
Email: snglass@aldineisd.org
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