We want to give students and parents of all ages a fun and engaging introduction to computer science. These ideas are designed for every student and family to engage in activities that show how computational thinking can be used to solve problems and express every child’s identity.
Giving instructions to successfully complete a maze
Families will lay out tiles (or other objects found at home) to form a maze and think of what commands they need to follow to solve it (move one step forward, turn left, turn right, etc.)
Repeat, make the maze longer or more complex.
Get other family members to try to solve the maze
Giving instructions to successfully complete a maze
Families will lay out tiles (or other objects found at home) to form a maze and think of what commands they need to follow to solve it (move one step forward, turn left, turn right, etc.)
Repeat, make the maze longer or more complex.
Get other family members to try to solve the maze
- Dance Party, computer science engineer salary and Astronomy are but a few of the fun and engaging activities families can engage in through coding.Code.org is launching Code Break — a live, weekly interactive classroom where their team will teach children at home while school is closed, and a weekly challenge to engage students of all abilities, even those without computers.
- Grades 3-5, Sample Activity: Creating a Scratch project representation of a room in the home
- Students will think of 3 items in a room that are the most interesting to them
- They will open Scratch, add sprites that represent these 3 items, and learn how to make them interactive
- Students will continue to explore Scratch and experiment with different features of it
- Grades 6-8, Sample Activity: Drawing images using JavaScript
- Students will be taught how to draw images using the p5 library of JavaScript
- They will learn how to make rectangles and ovals, and will be given challenges of pictures to try to recreate
- Afterwards, students can create their own pictures and learn how to make other shapes
- High School, Sample Activity: Making a poster using JavaScript
- Students will be given code that creates a poster using p5
- They will see how they can create comments and utilize work that already exists as a baseline to make their own creations
- Afterwards, students will create their own posters using a sample as a base
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