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Resources From Presentation
Resources From Presentation
- Coding Experience Poll Results
- Video: Code - The New Literacy
- Video: What Most Schools Don't Teach (starting at 4m52s)
Standards:
- CSTA K-12 Standards
- Common Core Standards
- Next Generation Science Standards
- ISTE Standards for Students
Getting Started:
- Kodable
- BotLogic
- Light-Bot
- Code.org Blockly Puzzles:
- Hour of Code - Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies
- Create Your Own Flappy Bird
- Try to beat this one created by one of my 5th Grade girls
- Tynker iPad App
- Currently similar to Tynker Hour of Code (Puppy Adventure, Lost in Space & Math Art) but with more levels
Building Blocks:
- Blockly
- Blockly Maze
- Blockly Turtle Graphics
- Blockly example by a Kindergarten student
- Shared by David Wees (Formative Assessment Specialist for Math) atON4
- Colored Squares in Blockly Example
- TurtleArt
- Hopscotch App
- Video: 5th Grader Example (after 2 hours of using app)
- Hopscotch Challenges: Learn to Code on an iPad
- Daisy the Dinosaur (same company for younger children)
- Tynker
- Scratch
- ScratchED (online community for educators using Scratch)
- Tech Star Scratchables (17 lessons & other resources)
- Download & Install Scratch 2.0 Offline Editor
- Scratch 2.0 Editor - No login required (projects saved offline)
- Example: Draw Your Name
- Example: Cyberbullying Quiz Game
- Example: 4th Grade Mission
- Example: Spanish Colors Review
- Alice
- Video: Of Mice & Men Book Trailer Example
- Looking Glass (Replacement for Storytelling Alice)
- TouchDevelop
- App Inventor
Stepping it Up:
- Javascript:
- Code Monster
- Code Maven
- Game Maven
- Code Avengers (Also HTML & CSS)
- Codecademy (Also HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, & more)
- Khan Academy (Javascript & ProcessingJS)
- Programming through Art & Math - Presentation by Sheena Vaidyanathan
- Hakitzu App - Free with in-app purchases (iOS/Android)
- Similar but browser-based is Code Combat (Requires account; can use Google login)
- Bootstrap World
- Curriculum Materials
- Video: Bootstrap 2012
- Video: Bootstrap Showcase
- Video: Bootstrap Promotional Video (more detailed look on how it works)
- Codea App (Lua)
- Code.org K-8 Computer Science Curriculum
How To Fit It In
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
What if I Don't Have Computers or Other Devices?
- Computer Science Unplugged: Programming Languages
- Buy a Bee-Bot for your classroom - best used with 2nd grade and below. Try Pro-Bot or other robots for older grades.
- BeeBots Live Binder
- Bee-Bot App (device is needed for this)
- Get your hands on a Robot Turtles game or two - created for 4-8 year olds but even older kids can find it challenging depending on mazes created.
- How To Train Your Robot
- Programming Without a Computer
More Web-based/Installed/App Options:
- Turtle Academy - Remember LOGO? Try this version!
- SNAP! - Based on Scratch but Javascript based
- LearnStreet - Teach Coding for Free: Javascript, Python, Ruby
- Kids Ruby
- CoffeeScript (simplify creation of Javascript)
- Teaching Kids Programming - Small Basic
- Play My Code - Quby Scripting Language
- Cargo-Bot - Programmed on the iPad (using Codea) for the iPad
- Hour of Code 2013 Resources
- Google: Exploring Computational Thinking
Other Things of Interest:
- Infinite Thinking Machine: Coding to Learn
- Video: CS & IT Symposium: Teaching Computer Programming to Middle School Students
- Video: Mitch Resnick: Let's Teach Kids to Code
- Video: RSCON4 (2013) - David Wees: Programming in Math Class (Blockly, TurtleArt)
- David Wees - Programming for Kids
- Teaching Kids to Think Using Scratch
- Video: K12 Online - Christ Betcher: Coding for Kids (2013)
- Coding is for Everybody Webinars
- Coding Nation: 300+ Resources
- Teach Computer Science or want to integrate Compute Science into your classroom? Join CSTA
- Kids Can Code Twitter Chat #kidscancode - Tuesdays, 5pm Pacific Time
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