Hour of Code Coding Activities
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Looking for a fun way to introduce your students to coding? Try Blockly—a free, game-based platform where kids learn programming through interactive challenges like puzzles, mazes, music, and storytelling. By dragging and dropping code blocks to solve problems or create projects, students instantly see their work come to life, helping them understand how coding builds and controls digital creations
One of our most popular lessons! Get creative when you use code to make animated characters bust a move in this introductory activity. Requires sound, reading.
Hour of Code Unplugged Activities
Hour-of-Code-Unplugged-Activities.pdfRobots for Check out
Robots for Check out
Ozobots
Ozobots are tiny, programmable robots that can be coded two ways: online with Ozobot Blockly and screen-free with Color Codes
Available: 2 Class Sets
Each Class set has 18 Evo Robots, 18 color code marker packs, Training Materials & Activities, Wireless Charging Base
Meet Cubetto: the friendly wooden robot toy for kids aged 3-6,
Available: 1 Class Sets
Includes Cubetto bot, coding box, logic pack and three additional adventure packs. (blue ocean, bit city, ancient Egypt)
Code-a-Pillar teaches basic coding and problem solving skills by letting children arrange its detachable segments to create a path for the caterpillar to follow. Perfect for kinder.
Available: 3 Code-a-Pillars
Edison robots are designed to teaching coding and STEM concepts to students K-12.
Available: 2 Class Sets
Each class set has 30 Edison bots , Student activity guides, teacher guides and bar codes.
How to Prepare
Choose your activities: This year, the Hour of Code theme is One Hour Can Make The Invisible Visible. You will see new activities aligned with this theme as well as some informational videos.
First, explore hundreds of coding activities. Please review ahead of time to ensure you have access to all content. Some sites and games might be blocked on our district network.
These select activities do not require computers or devices.
Visit our EdTech site for more activities: QCUSD Hour of Code
Plan your hour
Here's a sample agenda to get you started:
10:00-10:05 am: Begin with an inspirational video
10:05-10:55 am: Students do their coding activity
10:55-11:00 am: Teacher gives closing remarks
Celebrate
All students who participate will receive an Hour of Code sticker. The first 100 classes that register will receive HOC wristbands. You can also print certificates of completion using this certificate generator. All you need to do is cut and paste student names into the text box and have them generated. Go to the certificates page, where you can print certificates for your entire class ahead of time.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Hour of Code? A one-hour introduction to computer science designed to show that anybody can learn the basics of code.
Why computer science? Every student should have the opportunity to learn computer science. It helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic, and creativity.
Do students need technology? No. There are Hour of Code tutorials that work on PCs, smartphones, tablets, and some that require no computer at all! This link will take you to the unplugged activities, which do not require devices. We also have some unplugged activities on our Ed Tech Webiste
I don’t know anything about coding. Can I still participate? Of course. Hour of Code activities are self-guided and require no coding experience.
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