Computer Science Education Week

Today we had so much fun working with many forms of media! To begin celebrating computer science education week, we used this slide show by Mrs. Carlough to learn some key words.

Click here, or the picture to see Mrs. Carlough's great slides!

While we learned and discussed the slides, we pretended to be robots commanded by the programer's (the teacher's) commands. We jumped, clapped, sat and more. It was fabulous!

Then, as proper mathematicians should,  we used the 120 chart to help us with an unplugged coding activity. We made our polar bear erasers move from one number to another, using only 2 moves. The polar bear could move up, down, left or right according to the programmer's commands. The "computer" student was responsible for acting out the commands. 

Here's an example of some of the fun we had!

Don't you just love this! The problem solving is awesome!

We'll be spending some time learning to code each day this week, and I'll be sharing the apps and resources we use.

Happy Computer Science Education Week!

  Mrs. Zig & Kids