Tag: elementary

Hand On Coding

Playing with blocks has been around for centuries.  From classrooms to doctors offices, this age old toy remains one of the most important tools for children to use in order to develop critical thinking skills.  While post poeple are scrambling to turn everything digital, we have reversed the role and have allowed for a digital idea to be created physically.  Hands-On Coding allows the student to physically move and act out programs created with Coding Blocks.  A big part of coding is developing an Algorithm, which is a list of steps to follow to complete a task.  In this case, the “run” part of the program is a physical person.  

 

Hands-On Coding turns the human into a computer and teaches children not just how to solve problems, but also how to express themselves.   Kids learn by doing, which is why Coding Blocks are a perfect tool to learn the basics of computer coding in a fun and engaging way.  They are useful for hands-on, small group activities; and for letting students explore and develop reasoning and problem-solving skills.

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CS Fundamentals for grades K-5 | Code.org Code Studio

Code.org has developed an elementary school curriculum that allows even the youngest students to explore the limitless world of computing – at no cost for schools. The courses blend online, self-guided and self-paced tutorials with “unplugged” activities that require no computer at all. Each course consists of about 20 lessons that may be implemented as one unit or over the course of a semester. Even kindergarten-aged pre-readers can participate.
Source: CS Fundamentals for grades K-5 | Code.org

Hello Ruby

Hello Ruby is the world’s most whimsical way to learn about technology, computing and coding. We are all about curiosity, playfulness and logic.We provide tools for kids, parents and educators to learn to understand programming in a fun and creative way. Our story starts off with a book that is now published in Finnish, English and Swedish. It will also be published in at least Korean, Japanese, Latvian, Polish and Dutch. The book made its debut on Kickstarter in 2014 and quickly smashed its $10,000 funding goal after just 3.5 hours and gathering 380 000 dollars in total funding. Hello Ruby is the most funded book on Kickstarter’s children’s book category.Ruby’s story continues online with exercises. We are also working on a series of small apps on computational thinking.

Source: About | Hello Ruby

CodeableCrafts

Codeable Crafts is an app for kids to create their imaginative stories by drawing and coding. Find a template of your favorite or capture your drawing with the camera, and use crayons and stickers to design your character. Your character will become a hero of your story. To tell a story of your character, use the block-based coding tool. Snap the blocks together to make a sequence, or use advanced blocks to make it interactive. You can also share your stories with your family and friends by email or AirDrop. With Codeable Crafts, kids can enrich their imagination and creativity, and learn the basic concept of computational thinking.

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Hopscotch Curriculum

We’re really excited that you’re going to teach your students to program, both for them and for you. Kids have remarkable imaginations, and creating computer programs is an amazing way for them to express themselves. We’ve seen kids create astonishing things using our simple but powerful tool. We know you’ll see the same when using Hopscotch, and hope you share what your students create. Anyone, regardless of their experience in programming, can teach this curriculum. Just as Hopscotch was built on the principle that anyone can become a great programmer, this curriculum is designed on the premise that anyone can become a great programming teacher. Programming is a way of thinking, building, and expressing yourself. Just as English is not really about grammar, and history is not memorizing dates, computer programming is not actually about code or computers. Just as we ask students to make connections between events in history, we ask students to investigate the interactions between complex systems in computer science.

Hopscotch Curriuculum

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Kinderlab Robotics

KinderLab Robotics creates toys and educational tools that enable young children to learn technical, problem solving and cognitive skills in a developmentally appropriate and playful way.

KinderLab takes a whole-child approach to bringing robotics into early childhood. While other STEM education products exist for middle and high school students, KinderLab uniquely fills a need for a critical population: children under the age of seven.

Our products meet the intellectual, social, behavioral, and emotional needs of young children.

KinderLab products are based on over 20 of academic and field research into how children learn  programming and engineering. They include multidisciplinary curricula that integrate technical skills with literacy, the expressive arts, and cultural studies.​

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