Pacing Guide for Coding from BrainPOP

BrainPOP just shared this pacing guide for your coding activities.

With content-driven coding, we’ve made it easy for teachers to integrate coding regardless of experience and no matter what they're covering in class. Our special CSEdWeek pacing guide has everything your schools need to get started.

Looking for coding resources?

 

HTML?Java script?  Need translation?  Here are some downloadable sheets to help you and your students.

Computer Science with Google?

Google has a variety of free coding programs to help introduce students to computer programming.  Please click here for more information.

Computational Resources

Looking for coding ideas for K-12?  TeachersFirst has a large list for you to explore.  Please click here for the link.

Google, Santa, and the Elves

During this month, you can code at Santa’s Google Workshop.

Design an elf, all by yourself! Create, code, and play in Santa's Village

So you don’t think you can code?

But can you copy and paste?  In this blog post from Alice Keeler, she gives several

suggestions to getting started to code in Google. And she is right about the copy

and paste- I did this when I was looking to modify a spreadsheet!

All you need to know to code!

TeachersFirst has gather a wealth of resources all related to coding in the classroom.  While some might be familiar, it is worth a look.  Please click here to see their resources.

Want to create your own Google Logo?

Caileigh Fazzini shared these links that will allow your students to code and create their own

Google logo!  Here’s the link with the video and instructions and the scratch to create!

Santa does more than track

In this year’s Santa Tracker from Google, in addition to the countdown clock, new items appear in the village daily.  While some are games, there are some learning opportunities for younger learners (think K-5).  Check out the Learn options and code a snowflake or improve your world language skills!  Special thanks to Kim Grossman for sharing.

Get ready to fight

Online, that is.  Code Warriors helps student (grades 4-12) learn JavaScript. This might be something to set up as a station for your students. Now this might appear as a gaming site (it works at home).

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Coding Resources

CodeHow is a YouTube playlist with a wide variety of coding resources.  This site is geared to high school students.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Coding for the high school folks

FreeCodeCamp provides a variety of self paced classes. And you can practice by helping nonprofits with real world projects.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Coding lessons from Google!

CS First  is a series of coding lessons geared to an afterschool club format.  But I think you could edit the lessons and use them in the classroom. For a complete description, please see the post from Richard Byrne Free Technology for Teachers.

Learn how to code

Here’s another site for elementary school students - Bee a Coder.  There are several levels(for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.) in the site and it might make a great June project .

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Make that robot dance!

Robo Boogie gives you the chance to make your robot dance!  You can start with the slides and then switch to code mode.  Younger students can use the sliders while older students will probably want to experiment with the code.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

E.A.K. (really saving the kittens)

Erase All Kittens invites you to learn basic coding skills while helping to free kittens!  While this is only a demo, you can still play (and learn). The first lesson covers tags and it move from there.  Would be great as a station or on a whiteboard.  It’s very interactive and would make a great introduction to coding for younger students.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Teaching CS without a computer?

That’s the aim of Computer Science Unplugged!  There are many coding skills that can taught without a computer or any electronic device.  For activities for grades 4-12, please check out the site.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Let the children code

Kodable is on online coding site.  While there is a paid version, teachers can  get a free classroom account with the basic features.  Kodable is geared for grades k-4. For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.