Hour of Code

During the week of December 7-11th,  the staff and students of East Lyme High School were invited to participate in the Hour of Code.   The Hour of Code is an International Initiative to motivate students to participate in some kind of coding activity so they are exposed to the basics of Computer Science.  There are many companies that contribute to this initiative, including Google, Microsoft. Code.org (which is comprised of a large number of partners), MIT, UC Berkley, Codeacademy and Khan Academy and Tynker to name a few.   Links to Coding activities are available on our East Lyme High School Library Resource Page under Maker Movement Resources and then Coding Activities and Coding:  http://eastlymehs.libguides.com/makermovement.

Throughout the week, teachers bring in a good variety of classes to the library to participate in Coding activities:

Madame Casey's French classes created French holiday cards using Scratch, a coding  and animation program created for students in K-12 grades by educators and students at MIT.

Mrs. Murphy's  Computer Science classes and Mrs. Mickle's Science classes came in and tried a number of different activities.  In addition, Mrs. Murphy teaches an App Inventor Class where students are coding every day!   Mrs. Mickle brought her science classes to visit  Mrs. Murphy's App Inventor class the following week so they could witness coding in action.


For those who have coded in the past,  we had them try a challenge from Karel the Robot, a program developed by NCLAB.



Mrs. Thompson's  PE classes visited the Code.org sites, where they were able to view a tutorial video and then participate in a variety of activities related to Minecraft, Star Wars and Frozen.  

 

 

 

The library houses two Robots called Dot and Dash, who were introduced to a group of students from Mrs. Nowak English and Mrs. Hansen's Math classes. Some students worked with an iPad app called Wonder to control the robots.

 

 

 And the fun continued after the official Hour of Code Week in December!   On December 21st, Mrs. Brake brought her math class in to do activities on the Code. org site and on December 22nd,  two more math teachers, Mr. Templeton and Mrs. Hanson signed their classes up to face the challenge of coding.

Thanks to all that participated.    The activities are available online all year round, so teachers can introduce the concept of coding to their classes at their own convenience.  Students and teachers alike were having a really great time completing the challenges provided.