What a success for “Hour of Code” week at SR!
In the Middle School, we did something counter-intuitive during the Hour of Code week--we put away laptops to become teams of coders and robots! The girls used a tinkersmith activity to code using arrows as language. They “programmed” their robots to stack the cups in a specific way. This activity gave meaning to what debugging, coding, programming, and robotics really is.
The Grade 6 science teacher lead an Hour of Code activity using a khanacademy.org activity, Drawing Using Code. What a great example of STEAM learning!
The girls continue to learn to code with online coding tools such as codecombat.com, playcodemonkey.com, lightbot.com, scratch.mit.edu, and so much more.
In the Upper School, the Science classes are integrating coding via the use of Arduino units. Students explore how to use an Arduino and the code that makes it all happen. The History classes are using the topic of art and architecture in the Age of Justinian to give students a practical use for html, css, and javascript. The students in World History I completed research about art or architecture from the Byzantine Empire and the content is placed into an interactive timeline for class review. The First Academic students are using online tools to follow four exercises that scaffold coding knowledge in realtime. Students are guided through the code-writing process with positive feedback, and students often get the 'wow' factor that comes with on-the-fly results.
#HourOfCode, #GatorsCode
