Set aside December 5-11th, 2022 for the hugely-popular Hour of code. This is a week of activities dedicated to inspiring kids to learn/love coding. This year:
1,536,702,210 will participate
180+ countries
44,941 events
What is it
Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify that mystical geeky subject that confounds students and teachers alike and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator.
Resources
Over the next week, I’ll share ideas that will get you ready for your Hour of Code. This includes (links are live on publication day):
- An Overview of This Week
- Long list of websites by grade
- 10 Unusual Projects
- 6 Unplugged Hour of Code Activities
Also: Check out these posts from previous years:
- Augmented Reality with Metaverse
- Build Your Own Apps
- Build Websites
- Hour of Code–Is it the right choice?
- Kid-created Games That Teach
- Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind
- Minecraft Review
- PrimoToys–unplugged programming for youngers
- Root Robotics–Great Way to Extend Hour of Code
- Scratch Jr.
- Websites and Apps to Support Hour of Code
- Why Should Students Learn Computer Science? A Teacher’s Perspective
- Wonder Workshop’s Amazing Dash
Hour of Code lesson plans
K-8 Lesson bundle of coding projects
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Thanks for the reminder and the suggested resources, Jacqui.
Coding is so much fun for students when taught right. There are some great projects in this list.
One thing colleges need to stop doing is forcing students to work on ancient and complicated and rarely used coding techniques such as complicated linked list and multilevel pointers in C. We have more modern languages taking care of that now a day. They do this to filter out the students who are not true coding nerds or beginners. To what end? To get fewer coders? To keep women out of computer science? (women tend to hate that stuff more than guys). We need more coders. We don’t need more linked lists in C and no more ****p =
You are so right, Thomas, and those confusing programs discourage students (my daughter being one).
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I’m glad you liked it, Muhammad!