PUZZLES AND COMPUTATIONAL THINKING Free unplugged Resources from the resource Hub from CAS London. https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/puzzles/ How to programme your Parent. (Unplugged Activity) from Makers Box. Here is an outline and video of what computational thinking is from Robomind For... Continue Reading →
To coincide with DK Learning publishing 4 new ebooks on Sharks, Pirates, The Stone Age and Ancient Egypt. DK has released these teacher resources to download as PDFs. The DK website is worth remembering to use in class as a... Continue Reading →
Looking for some more challenging Coding Activities? Why not have a go at this on Trinket? Free Python Hour of Code Activity from Trinket https://hourofpython.trinket.io/a-visual-introduction-to-python#/welcome/an-hour-of-code There are lots of free lessons and online activities for your club or class that... Continue Reading →
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/teaching-kids-basic-html This course is very simple to use and would make a great addition to any club or lesson teaching programming to children. It is a sequence of small animations showing how HTML code works and uses the idea of... Continue Reading →
Dance Mat Typing, a fun way to learn touch typing from the BBC There are four levels to play, each divided into three stages. You start by learning the home row keys. Each stage builds on previous lessons, introducing new... Continue Reading →
Super Scratch Programming Adventure http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/scratch2_samplechapters.pdf Creative Computing Learning Workbook http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/files/CreativeComputing20140820_LearnerWorkbook.pdf Starting from Scratch - this starts from the beginning what's a computer? What is Software etc, then has short tutorials which could be handouts that can be filled in to... Continue Reading →
Simple Real Coding using code monkey
A simple maze game using blockly as an introduction to Scratch, very like the Hour of code games. This features 10 levels of increasing difficulty.
Very nice animated film which is 5 minutes long,showing the basics of computer programming from Brainpop. Some of this site does require a login but it has some great programming activities and https://www.brainpop.com/technology/computerscience/computerprogramming/ Here is another one from... Continue Reading →