Hour of Code 2014

Coonley Elementary Lesson Plan Table of Contents What is Hour of Code? How it Will Work at Coonley Choose Your Participation Method Resources During Hour of Code Week After the Hour of Code

What is Hour of Code? The week of December 8th-13th is the “Hour of Code”. During this time students around the world will get an introduction to computer programming- no prior experience is required (by student or teacher). Students (or teachers) will choose how to spend their Hour of Code through game-based activities online. There are “unplugged” activities for those that don’t want to use technology for the Hour of Code. This is a worldwide initiative with hopes of reaching 100 million students this year! The goal of the event is to promote computer science as an option for future careers. The hope is that exposing students, especially girls, will encourage them to explore coding further. The Department of Labor anticipates computer science will be one of the fastest-growing and highest-paying industries in the future. Read more about the importance of coding here: https://www.madewithcode.com/bigdeal Watch an introduction to the Hour of Code here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7AjDMz_dc

How it Will Work At Coonley During the week of December 8th-13th teachers will choose ONE HOUR to dedicate to the Hour of Code (Grades 4-8 will attend coding activities at DePaul this week and participate in school-based Hour of Code activities the week of December 15th). Please fill out what day(s)/time(s) you are completing your Hour of Code here so you can receive classroom support from Mrs. Zumpano. Websites with lesson plans are included in this document. Teachers can choose any activity for their classroom to complete. Lessons can be broken up into smaller sessions (as long as you are devoting a minimum of one hour for the week). Teachers can use their scheduled computer time (grades K-4) to participate. Teachers can complete the activity in their classrooms as a whole class using iPads, laptops or even as stations. The way you choose to implement Hour of Code is completely up to you. It is recommended that you look through the Teacher’s Notes (where available) prior to the activity. Teachers are asked to take pictures of their students participating in Hour of Code and send them to Mrs. Zumpano (please note: if you take any pictures showing a student’s face please make sure they have a media consent form on file. If not, please take pictures from behind students so their face cannot be identified). Students will be asked to complete a Google Form (survey) about their experience and teachers will be asked to complete a short survey detailing the number of students that participated.

Choose Your Participation Method There is no set-in-stone way to complete Hour of Code! Teachers can choose activities on the iPads, laptops, computer lab, Chromebooks or even “unplugged” activities that include no technology at all! Teachers can offer students a choice, assign one tutorial for everyone, have coding “stations” with different applications, partner with an older/younger classroom, have students work independently or in pairs, etc.

Resources Here’s a link to this list of resources in a separate document Hour of Code webiste: http://hourofcode.com/us Sponsored by: http://code.org/ (most activities in this guide have been taken from the Hour of Code website)

Chromebooks/Laptops/Desktops

Hour of Code Studio ages 4 and up http://studio.code.org/hoc/1 Detailed Teacher’s Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F0VsFzdaspL-5Qx8RCWd1Qt_euuIBmewT6rFOFzniOo/pub

Code with Anna and ages 5 and up http://studio.code.org/s/frozen/

Elsa from Frozen stage/1/puzzle/1

Build Your Own Game ages 5 and up http://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/

Teacher’s Notes: https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/teacher

Scratch Activities ages 8 and up http://scratch.mit.edu/hoc2014/ Teacher’s Notes: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/hoc/

LightBot all ages http://lightbot.com/hoc2014.html

Teacher’s Notes: http://lightbot.com/resources.html

FlappyBirds Code all ages http://studio.code.org/flappy/1

Google’s Made with Code

ages 8 and up https://www.madewithcode.com/projects

Hour of Code with Khan Academy

ages 12 and up https://www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode

Teacher’s Notes: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/hour-of-code/hour-of-code-for-teachers/a/using-hour-of-code-in-your-classroom

CodeCombat middle school http://codecombat.com/?hour_of_code=true

Teacher’s Notes: http://codecombat.com/teachers

CodeAvengers middle school http://www.codeavengers.com/javascript/17#1.1

BotLogic ages 4 and up http://botlogic.us

iPads (note: these apps must be installed on iPads ahead of time! Please let Mrs. Zumpano know if you want any of these apps installed PRIOR to the Hour of Code!)

LightBot has apps for ages 4-8 and 9 and up.

Web-based version available as well http://lightbot.com

Bee-Bot ages 5-7 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id500131639?mt=8

The Foos ages 5 and up. Web-based version available

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id923441570?mt=8 Teacher’s Notes:

http://www.thefoos.com/hourofcode/curriculum/Teacher_Intro_to_codeSpark_Hour_of_Co

de.pdf

Hopscotch ages 9-11 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hopscotch-programming-designed/id617098629?mt=8

Daisy the Dinosaur for little learners https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278

CargoBot ages 8 and up https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cargo-

bot/id519690804?ls=1&mt=8

ScratchJr. ages 5-7 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/scratchjr/id895485086?mt=8

Kodable ages 5 and up https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kodable/id577673067?mt=8

Unplugged: Coding without Technology

CS Unplugged lesson plans for 5-12 year olds

http://csunplugged.org

My Robotic Friends all ages

http://csedweek.org/files/CSEDrobotics.pdf

Conditionals with Cards ages 8-12

http://code.org/files/ConditionalsHoC.pdf

Blockly all ages

https://github.com/google/blockly-games/wiki/Offline

Binary Baubles ages 8 and up

http://code.org/files/CSEDbinary.pdf

fuzzFamily Frenzy ages 8-13 https://www.kodable.com/hour-of-code

During Hour of Code Week

1. Begin by discussing the Hour of Code concept and the importance of computer science (read more here):

a. Hour of Code is aiming for participation from 100 million students worldwide b. Official Hour of Code Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7AjDMz_dc&index=2&list=PLzdnOPI1iJNe1WmdkMG-Ca8cLQpdEAL7Q

c. Share these computer science statistics: http://hourofcode.com/us/resources/stats

d. Some of last year’s stats:

2. Choose a coding activity from the resources listed above and introduce it to students. Note: teachers should have already previewed the lesson(s) before introducing and tested the systems they will be working on (Chromebooks, iPads, etc.). K-4 teachers: if you will be implementing your Hour of Code during your typing period please let Mr. Bajorek and Mrs. Zumpano know what you will be doing prior to coming to the lab. 3. Begin coding! If possible, take pictures or short video clips of the students working. If you are a Twitter user consider posting comments about your experience on Twitter using #HourofCode and tagging us at @CoonleyES 4. Have students complete this survey about their experience when your Hour of Code is complete

After the Hour of Code 1. Complete this survey telling how many of your students participated in Hour of Code 2. Send any pictures or videos to Mrs. Zumpano. If you tweeted, journaled or documented

in any other way please send these as well so we can create something showing how the entire school participated

3. Consider printing out Hour of Code certificates for your students http://code.org/certificates

4. Interested in learning more? View my computer science resources http://nicolezumpano.wikispaces.com/Computer_Science