Grade 7 & 8 Activities

Hour of Code at Code.org - Choose the Grade 6-8 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 learn how to use google forms to make an online version of your adventure. 

Rock, Paper, Scissors- Learn about Computer Modeling by playing a few versions of rock, paper, scissors

Women in Tech - This 3-part unit explores gender inequality and engages students in activities and discussions around different experiences and perspectives. 

Number System

Program a Person- Have students create a non-verbal code to get each other through a grid.  Use the tiles on the floor and mark a few squares with sticky notes.  Start with having one student be the robot and one be the programming.  The programmer will pick (or be told by a 3rd person) what sticky note to get the robot to. The programmer can only use the agreed upon non-verbal code.

Once students get the idea of this try one of these challenges:

1) Code the "robot" to pick up a bunch of items and do something with them

2) Switch to verbal code, specifically left, right, forward, backward.  Have the programmer facing the "robot" so now they have a different perspective on how they view the grid (if the programmer moves forward and the robot moves forward will they be going the same direction?)

COMPUTER ACTIVITIES
Hour of Code at Code.org - Tons of activities.  Choose the Grade 6-8 tab to filter.   

Try out Makecode Carnival Games - great tutorials with videos to show you if you need.  The only challenge is after the first lesson you have to sign in with google.

Here are a few we recommend from Hour of Code

• Code.org Dance Party

• Code with an Artistic Flair: 

  • Code.org Artist

  • Code It! Images and Imagination

  • Shelley: Learn Programming by Drawing

  • Code your own Flag (intro to JavaScript)

• Tynker: Responsible Consumption: Recycle

• Code.org Outbreak Simulator

• Scratch: 

  • • • Animate an Adventure Game

      • Shark eating fish (and??) game

      • animate your world

• Blackbird (JavaScript):

  • • • Create a 90s style screen saver

      • Tetherball game

• Code.org:

  • • • Minecraft: Voyage Aquatic

      • Code.org: Star Wars

      • Poem Art