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One of the most innovative and interesting spaces to do the Hour of Code ™ was in the gym.
Mrs. Sanders, the principal of Keystone Heights Elementary School, a rural school in Clay County, met with resource teachers before Computer Science Education Week to discuss how coding could be incorporated into all resource classes. “ Most of our 823 students had 4 - 6 opportunities to code through the week ”, said Mrs. Sanders. “ Ms. Ochoa, our technology teacher, sent the resource team examples of activities, including "unplugged" coding tasks ”. Ms. Ochoa and Mrs. Sanders communicated through email and the weekly
newsletter to the entire faculty and staff about Computer Science Education week and shared resources. Every resource (with the exception of music who was practicing for their winter concert) participated in the Hour of Code ™. In the technology class, students used the Hour of Code ™ website and the "Dance Party" for all grade levels and sent home coding "homework" so that parents could learn to code at home with their students. The art teacher taught students about coding through the use of tangrams and algorithms (from the code.org site) and wrapped each lesson up with a mosaic pixel art activity using coding to complete an image. Art is rich of opportunity to connect to computer science. Tessellations and repeating patterns, ripe for analysis, present a colorful way to engage the artistic students in the study of computer science. Both plugged (work done on a computer) and unplugged (work done without a computer) opportunities exist. Digital design, app building, and game creation are just a few of the projects possible through the art classroom. The Media specialist facilitated student tasks with Lego Robots, Ozbots, pixel coding, and coding to make it through a maze. The STEM teacher taught a whole group lesson about the use of coding in the function of computers and ended each lesson with an "unplugged" input/ output coding task. In PE, students worked in pairs to write code in order to complete an obstacle course. Mrs. Sanders read coding books from the library to our younger students and had guest "coding experts" teach her more about coding. Several teachers took their classes to the lab for additional Hour of Code ™ time and others incorporated coding into their lessons and homework. 7
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