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The 2017-2018 school year will be my first time teaching a 6th grade coding elective. In my research on what resources to use to develop my curriculum for this course, I refined the tools to those I view most helpful. I've included a brief description of the website, why I prefer it, and the appropriate age level. Coding WebsitesScratch-I fell in love with this free website, developed by MIT students, during a BSU course I took last summer. It has a phenomenal array of tools and endless programming capability and is yet quite simple to understand. Students LOVE this site!
Recommended Grades: upper elementary and middle school students (even high schoolers) Kodable-This is an excellent FREE resource. It is written in a concise and organized manner including everything that the teacher in me loves: teaching objectives, vocabulary, direct instruction lesson plans containing short videos that present lesson content to the teacher, and informal assessments. Recommended Grades: lower elementary Code.org-For the past four years, my students (grades 1st-6th) have used this website in some form, whether they participate in the Hour of Code, visit the website when they've completed their project that week or are completing an assignment for my class. I love this site because it is extremely user friendly and the website is so well developed. Their graphics are amazing and they are constantly adding activities to match current student interests (Frozen, Star Wars, Minecraft...whatever is popular at the time.) They also offer a curriculum for both elementary and middle schools. Recommended Grades: lower & upper elementary and middle school
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7/11/2017 07:04:34 am
Hi Becky,
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Becky
7/11/2017 07:42:52 am
Ryan,
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7/11/2017 07:52:00 am
PS-thanks for the heads up on the Kodable link. It was wrong and I have updated it.
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7/12/2017 09:50:06 am
Becky, like your list entry, providing the annotations for each of your links that tells the reader why you included it or what you want them to focus on is important.
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