3- 5 Grade 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
Design a Robot
Unplugged Activity
In this lesson, students will build their literacy skills while diving into the field of robotics. They'll watch Flocabulary's educational hip-hop video to find out what a robot is and see examples of robots in daily life. They'll close-read short passages about robots, discuss tasks that robots are well suited for and finish the lesson by designing their own robot to solve a specific problem.
Women in Tech
Unplugged Activity
This 3-part unit explores gender inequality and engages students in activities and discussions around different experiences and perspectives. Highlighting influential women in the history of tech, students learn about past pioneers and form their own opinions on equality in the tech field. At the end of the unit, students express their opinions in writing to effect change in their school community.
Compression Code Puzzles
Unplugged Activity
Data on computers is stored as long sequences of characters – ultimately as binary 1s and 0s. The idea with compression is that we use an algorithm to change the way the information is represented so that fewer characters are needed to store exactly the same information.
Online (Plugged) Activities
Create your own Google Logo
Web Browser with Audio directions
Use your creativity and imagination to bring the Google logo to life using code. Make the letters dance, tell a story or create a game. With Scratch and CS First, anyone can become a designer and programmer for the day!
Infinity Play Lab
Self-led Tutorial
Use Play Lab to create a story or game starring Disney Infinity characters.
Program a virtual robot with Robomin
Self-led Tutorial
Students learn the basics of programming by controlling their own virtual robot. The online course is fully self-contained with short presentations, movies, quizzes and automatic guidance/hints to help with the programming exercises.
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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