Grades PreK-2
What activities can I try?
View all Hour of Code Activities on the CSEdWeek Website
Listen to a Story
How to Code a Sandcastle
(9:49)
read by
Rohan Kundargi
K-12 Community Outreach Administrator
Office of Government & Community Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How to Code a Rollercoaster
(8:41)
read by
Ted Downing
CRLS Class of 2014
Program Coordinator
The Job Connector by MIT
Grace Hopper:
Queen of Computer Code
(18:34)
read by
Caley Allen
Education and Diversity Programs Manager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hola Ruby. La aventura de programar
(20:06)
read by
Sebastian Ruiz-Samojluk
7th Grade Student
Olaia Sauri Domingo
6th Grade Student
Javier Gonzalez-Pisano
Instructional Technology Specialist and Math Interventionist
Hello Ruby:
Journey Inside the Computer
(10:15)
read by
Samantha Farrell
Assistant to the Director
MIT.nano Lab
Doll-E 1.0
(5:41)
ready by
Junardy Jean-Charles
Program Development Administrator
The Job Connector by MIT
Watch a Video
I wonder.. how my smartphone knows how to use a filter I wonder.. What travels inside the wires of my computer? I wonder.. Why does this computer part look like a tiny city?
Ask your friends, family members or neighbors what kind of questions they have and compare them with your questions. What did you notice? Did the grownups have answers for any of your questions? Probably not. Don’t worry. It takes curiosity to work things out.
Computers are all around us, but what really makes a computer, a computer? Explore the history of computers and the features they all share.
"One of the first programmers of the Mark I, developer of the first compiler, and grandmother of COBOL, Grace made huge strides as a pioneering woman in male-dominated computing fields!"