It’s the HOC News! Videos and graphics are all about tech, diversity, kids, and coding. Finished projects can be uploaded to school website as the report on the HOC itself. Teachers can encourage students to use the news to report on what they learned, or a statistic for their school. “Breaking News: 400 students at Roosevelt participate in the Hour of Code” Click the image to go to the page, or access through code.org
(text from from code.org)
Who ISN'T excited for the new Star Wars moving coming out in a couple weeks? Blending pop culture with coding makes for an engaging lesson in computer sciences. Click the box to the left to access the code.org page. Choose "blocks" if your students are new to coding.
If you students seem to be familiar with the block coding challenges, then choose the option on the left to show Java Script. Click here for accompanying lesson plans.
Share this slide presentation in Google Classroom to make a copy for each student and let them explore the slides. There is information, videos, games, and a place to try one of the tutorials.
(note: The padlet on slide 10 belongs to the creating teacher, Karly Moura. You might want to replace this with your own padlet board)