Students will learn coding skills and strategies through participation in a block coding curriculum to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills. Specific coding skills include debugging, loops, nested loops, while loops, conditionals, functions, and variables. Digital citizenship is a component of the coding curriculum.
Students well versed in block code will apply these skills in specific coding languages.
Coding in STEAM class by grade level:
VEX IQ Robotics Grade 6
Code.org Express course Grades 6,7,8
Hour of Code (week) Grades 6,7,8
Design an App (Thunkable) Grades 7 and 8
Downtime games that encourage problem solving