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Students will learn to create technology rather than consume it. They will collaborate in groups to join the "maker movement" and create an interactive game controller to control a video program they create in Scratch. They will also complete Course 2 from Code Studio. Code Studio is a fun, creative platform for learning basic coding and computer science! Using a blended learning model, your children are learning with a mix of online activities (on the computer) and “unplugged” classroom activities that use no computer at all.This format helps nurture creativity, problem solving, collaboration, and logic through interactive, self-paced tutorials, featuring short video lectures and game-like puzzles.
Student Resources:
Create Your Own Game Controller Challenge
Scratch
How to: Very simple soccer game in scratch
How to: A simple maze game
Students in Semester 1 will participate in the Hour of Code. The 'Hour of Code' is a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org on December 9-15 to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming.
Go to https://code.org/ and begin!
Want more? Here are additional sites with more tutorials:
The Scratch Project from MIT where you can create your own game from "scratch":
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