With a little hot glue, paperclips, and a few spare parts you can transform an ordinary clothespin into a mini robot bug with glowing LED eyes that moves across smooth surfaces. The materials are super easy to come by making it a quick and fun DIY project that's guaranteed to please. Educators might also want
This easy unplugged coding activity uses one of our most favourite toys: magnetic tiles. My kids can't get enough of magnetic tiles so I had to find away to incorporate coding into their play. This
Getting started with coding in the classroom doesn’t have to be scary or intimidating! You don’t have to have a background in computer science to teach it, and you don’t even need expensive robots or technology to get started! WHY Teach Coding?
With a little hot glue, paperclips, and a few spare parts you can transform an ordinary clothespin into a mini robot bug with glowing LED eyes that moves across smooth surfaces. The materials are super easy to come by making it a quick and fun DIY project that's guaranteed to please. Educators might also want
Getting started with coding in the classroom doesn’t have to be scary or intimidating! You don’t have to have a background in computer science to teach it, and you don’t even need expensive robots or technology to get started! WHY Teach Coding?
Easily teach kids binary using a free binary app and fun binary puzzles! Kids learn and practice binary in a fun, creative, and hands-on way.
Knowing that coding is an important skill for students to learn, I knew I had to come up with ways to teach coding skills. However, I knew nothing about coding, so I needed to learn a few basics. With my new found knowledge, I came up with so many fun ideas for integrating coding into my literacy lessons. Which is why I am so happy I get to share one of the first ever coding lessons I incorporated into the literacy curriculum AND it is just in time for the Mentor Text Lessons to Warm Up Your Winter Link-Up using the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. Via John Evans
A regime of cramming and testing is crushing young people’s instinct to learn and destroying their future
Add a bit of fun and creativity when teaching area and perimeter. Students get the chance to create their own robots using grid paper, solve for the body parts' areas and perimeters, and record them in the robot's speech bubble. Once your students complete the math work, let them get as creative a...
Séquence 1 – Découverte des robots Blue-Bots Sequence 1 – découverte du robot Séance 1 – Qu’est ce que c’est qu’un robot (conception initiale) : (30 minutes) ==> Sans mo…
On the blog today we are sharing another awesome screen free coding activity. We love designing unplugged coding activities that use objects you can easily find around your house. That’s why we’ve previously designed unplugged
The biggest barrier to teaching coding is the misconception that it is another skill that needs to be taught. In reality, coding is simply a tool that can be leveraged to teach standards in a more powerful, creative, and connected way!
Water guns? Robots? A deck of cards? Get your kids coding and having fun with these 5 super activities (even if you don't know how to code!).
Learn tips and tricks to teach your kindergarten students valuable coding skills. You will find out why, what, when and how to teach your class how to code.
Check out all my favorite robots and robotics lessons for beginners and elementary students! Perfect for introducing kids to the basics of coding.
This Reading Comprehension Worksheet - Tommy's Robot is for teaching reading comprehension. Use this reading comprehension story to teach reading comprehension.
Today I am going to be sharing a SUPER SIMPLE coding card game for kids. We use this activity to introduce kids to coding and to teach basic coding concepts and computational thinking skills. This
Why Teach Computer Coding? There is no way of denying it, we live in a digital world. Computers, smartphones, and tablets are everywhere and practically everything we do requires some sort of programming. Since it is our job as educators to prepare students for the future, it is important to introduce and teach computer programming […]
Getting started with coding in the classroom doesn’t have to be scary or intimidating! You don’t have to have a background in computer science to teach it, and you don’t even need expensive robots or technology to get started! WHY Teach Coding?
Make a density column with different liquids. Have students experiment with a variety of liquids to discover the density of those liquids.
A free PDF worksheet of robots conversation questions for ESL and general English discussion.
Help your child learn how to code with 19 easy and fun coding activities for kids, including preschoolers, Kindergarten, and elementary, too.
Save $ and purchase all 5 Ozobot products in this growing Ozobot BundleStudents will practice coding their Ozobot using markers to get their ozobot through spring themed tasks from start to finish! Courses include a finished line course, a partially lined courses, and an advanced challenge where stu...
Today I'm bringing you another super simple unplugged coding activity for kids! We're going to be exploring if/then conditional statements with this simple cause and effect activity. In this easy STEM activity, kids will learn
What is coding for kids, why and how do we teach it? 18 best coding websites for kids to use at home and school & useful links to further...
Coder et programmer en classe pour des élèves du primaire avec l'aide de la littérature jeunesse, les chromebooks et des jeux de blocs, c'est possible.
This elementary coding activity introduces the basics of computer programming. Perfect for Hour of Code in the classroom or at home for PK-5
This Earth Day coding recycling sorting activity teaches children how conditional statements work while learning how to sort recyclables!
Our kids can have a huge advantage if they start learning how to code at an early age. Here are 10 resources for kids to start coding.
Check out my YouTube video on my 5 Ways to Celebrate the Hour of Code! Coding is all the rage in elementary schools right now, and it’s not hard to see why! Coding, or the language of programming, is quickly becoming a language that our students need to learn how to “speak,” even as young...
Practice recognizing and counting basic geometric shapes with this printable worksheet. How many shapes do you see in this picture?
The biggest barrier to teaching coding is the misconception that it is another skill that needs to be taught. In reality, coding is simply a tool that can be leveraged to teach standards in a more powerful, creative, and connected way!
C and R have been sharing ideas when creating resources. The following worksheets were developed to use when investigating the properties of Beebots. The worksheets are to be used to record results…
Why Teach Computer Coding? There is no way of denying it, we live in a digital world. Computers, smartphones, and tablets are everywhere and practically everything we do requires some sort of programming. Since it is our job as educators to prepare students for the future, it is important to introduce and teach computer programming […]
High time we stop and think what our age-old education system is intentionally/unintentionally turning these little imaginative and creative minds into. A robot-like machine expected to bear undue academic pressure from a tender age and a parrot-like tendency to mug up concepts without proper understanding.
The personal financial literacy math standards include challenging vocabulary and concepts. Use these 5 tools to make it easier and more fun for kids!
Use these STEM Experiments in your classroom to engage your students! Free from The Curriculum Corner and The Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
I have been running a Coding and Robotics Club at school for a couple of years now. I started with coding and last year picked up a large number of NXT Mindstorm robots so it felt right to combine the two! Megan and I have spoken about this new 21st century language called coding in …
