Circuitboard Playground (Classroom Resources)
Do you need a fun physical computing lesson or two. There are some tutorials on Code.org - Maker - Circuit Playground where students will use the board with App Lab to develop programs using the boards inputs and outputs or MakeCode - Adafruit to make some fun stand alone projects. If you don'th have the circuit boards - Makecode is a resource that will allow you to use their Adafruit simulator.
Micro:bits (Classroom Resources)
If you are new to Micro:bits or would like some fun lessons or tutorials Code.org - Maker Offerings wehre students will use the board with App Lab to develop programs using the boards inputs and outputs or MakeCode - Microbit to make some fun stand alone projects. If you don't have the circuit boards - Makecode is a resource that will allow you to use their Micro:bit simulator.
Code.org's Fun Projects
Incubator -Make music with code by mixing and matching beats, bass, and other sounds to make your own songs. Project Beats - https://studio.code.org/docs/ide/projectbeats
Learn what blockchain is and how it works and then look at the societial impacts of it - https://code.org/blockchain
There are some new CS Connections lessons that make the connections between learning computer science and other subjects like math, language arts, science, and social studies.
Elemenatry
Marine life ecosystem simulates the impacts of overfishing and the importance of perserving the ecosystem.
Poetry - Students will write their own poems, investigate word choice, learn how to use prompts and variables, learn how to code conditional statements, and create a poem generator app to share with friends.
Animal Adaptions - Students create and animate sprites and use events to make them interactive. They will code an event-based cause-and-effect model in Sprite Lab to demonstrate how species survive by adapting to their environments over time. The interactive models and simulations are used in the real world to help engineers and scientists identify patterns, understand nature, make predictions about future changes, and design solutions to prepare for and/or combat major disruptions.
Interactive Maps - Students learn social studies concepts by creating a map with code.
Character Study - This project asks students to use their coding skills to recount stories and describe characters.
Counting - Students practice counting and addition.
Story Morals - Students to use their coding skills to recount stories and determine their morals.
Spelling - Students work on spelling and recognizing capital letters.
Life Cycles - Students use their coding skills to develop a model of a scientific concept learned in class and then model life cycles to the transfer of energy or information.
Time Capsule - Students will use computer science to bring a digital time capsule to life! Students will learn the basics of Sprite Lab by coding the mood and imagery of a paragraph of text written about a specific, important moment in time.
Fabels - Students compare and contrast similar themes, topics, and patterns of events in traditional literature from different cultures in order to begin writing and coding their own short stories.
StarQuilts - Students learn about Native American Star Quilts and their significance. Then, students will make a 6-pointed star shape on paper. One of the main goals is to discuss the patterns within the shape.
6th Grade +
Data and Visualization - Students practice making conclusions from charts and learn to use the Data Visualizer in App Lab to create two different kinds of charts: a bar chart, and a histogram. This tool is designed to quickly connect students with real-world datasets and make it easy to create visualizations from data without learning how to navigate a more complex tool.
9th Grade+
AI - Students learn about AI and Machine Learning.
AI and Ethics - Students are exposed ethical pitfalls in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an area of their choice.
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If you'd like me to share about any topics I mentioned above for 15 min at one of your chapter meetings, I'd be happy to do so. If you or a member of your chapter would like to talk with the Utah chapter in exchange that would be amzaing.
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