Hour of Code
December 9th - 15th
What is Hour of Code
I know there is so much expected these days, but I hope that you allow your students to participate in some of the coding activities next week.
Why teach computer science?
"The Hour of Code is designed to demystify code and show that computer science is not rocket science—anybody can learn the basics," said Hadi Partovi, founder and CEO of Code.org. "Over 100 million students worldwide have tried an Hour of Code. The demand for relevant 21st-century computer science education crosses all borders and knows no boundaries."
How can I participate?
If your students have completed an hour in the past, have them choose a new one.
I will put login information in your boxes this week in case students don't remember logins from last year.
The images below are links to the different activities on the Hour of Code website. There are many more, but these are the newest.
Code.org Unplugged Activities
Code your own dance party!
This looks loads of fun! Your students can code the dance moves, then show it on the screen and have them all dance along. (I will need videos of this!)
Scratch
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.
Scratch works great with iPads that are available for reservation from the library!
In the library
Kindergarten, Coding will be the lesson in December.
Additional resources for checkout that you can use in your classroom:
Beebots
Ozobots
Dash and Dot
Osmos
iPads to use with Scratch