PERSISTENCE is an important skill in programming and computer science. We will provide all 5th grade classes with an activity called Building a Foundation which will help you build your Persistence!
Flocabulary has some cool Computer Science activities:
Problem Solving With RobotsCoding for LoopsAlgorithms and PseudocodeWriting and Interpreting EventsAll About ConditionalsHour of Code Certificates: You can enter students names all at once and then it will give you individual certificates to print
Hour of Code at Code.org - Choose the Grade 2-5 tab to filter and then filter no computer or technology on the left side.
Here are a few we recommend:
Sci Girls: Code Creators (learn about pseudocode)
Create a choose your own adventure - optional extension is to learn how to use google forms to make an online version of your adventure
Move it, Move it- student practice 'programming' each other
The Emotion Machine - The class program a card robot face to show different emotions one after another.
The Big Event- an event is an action that causes something to happen
Rock, Paper, Scissors- Learn about Computer Modeling by playing a few versions of rock, paper, scissors
Hour of Code at Code.org - Tons of activities. Choose the Grade 2-5 tab to filter.
The list of iPad apps that are on our iPads is at the bottom.
Here are a few we recommend from Hour of Code
Scratch:
Code with an Artistic Flair:
Codespark Academy- have to choose SCHOOLS in upper left corner. Then click student and then Hour of Code. Pick puzzles.
PBS Kids Sci Girls Code Quest-starts out with the basics