Techie Club: Hour of Coding
Every year our school has an auction and the teachers are encouraged to provide some type of activity for bidding. In the past, I’ve always done a “TechnoWizard of the Day” where a student plans and teaches the classes that come to the lab.
This year I decided to offer something different. It was open to five students who would come in after school for an hour of tech activities.
Four terrific third graders and one stupendous 2nd grader bid on the item and joined me last Friday for a fun afternoon.
As usual, I had TOO much planned but that’s okay, we had lots of fun. We started with the Hopscotch app and downloaded and Etch-a-sketch program. The children were encouraged to experiment with the variables in the script blocks to change the way the program responded.
Next, we moved to Scratch to create a maze and then it was on to the Makey Makey boards to control our project. We also used a pre-made Scratch piano and playdoh to hook that up to make music.
Here is a glimpse at our quick afternoon of coding!