MNCodes Summit 2022 - Get Started With Code Wherever You Are

 If you are interested in K-5 coding curriculum that can be used in-person in the classroom or for virtual or hybrid learning,  join me for the Get Started With Code Wherever You Are poster session of the MNCodes Summit.

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Learn more about how Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum helps young coders in K-5 get started with programming and develop coding skills through the fun and interactive iPad, unplugged activities to introduce coding concepts, and block-based coding apps like CodeSpark academy and Tynker.

Everyone Can Code and Develop In Swift Curriculum

Apple has free teacher and student guides available in the Apple Book Store in the Books app on the iPad or Mac computer. The curriculum guides include ways to introduce coding concepts and key vocabulary, activities to help students better understand the concepts by through everyday activities, practice with block-based apps at the elementary level, and reflection activities that allow for using other apps to create multimedia responses that demonstrate student learning.

Learn More About The Everyone Can Code and Develop In Swift Curriculum

Get Started With Code 1 and 2 Teacher Guides

Coding Concepts In The Get Started With Code Guides

Lesson Structure Overview:

Lesson Overview And Key Vocabulary

Lesson Introduction And Kinesthetic Activities

Unplugged Activities

The Get Started With Code guides contain unplugged activities that get students off their devices and up and moving to introduce coding concepts through familiar games and activities to help students understand and remember the concepts.

Lesson Activity

Lesson Practice With Block-Based Coding Apps

Block-Based Coding Apps

Block-based coding apps allow students to learn about coding concepts and practice them in apps without needing to know any coding languages. Students can simply drag and drop the code blocks to create a program.

Tynker

CodeSpark Academy

Daisy the Dinosaur

Lightbot Hour

Kodable

Scratch Jr.

Scratch

Hopscotch

Lesson Reflection And Optional App Design Activity

Lesson Resources

Robots And Physical Computing

Robots With Block-Based Apps

Dash - Blockly app       

Sphero Mini - Sphero EDU app

Blue-Bot - BlueBot app

Resources:

Apple K-12 Education Teaching Code - Curriculum and resources for teaching code.

Apple Teacher Learning Center - Learn about iPads, apps, Mac computers, applications, and integration ideas. Get started earning your Apple Teacher badges.

Google Jamboard - Collaborative online whiteboard. Saves in your Google Drive account.

Google Meet - Video conference application.

Keynote - Apple presentation app for iPads and Apple computers. Awesome for creating presentations, drawing, animation, video, and layout and design.

Padlet - Online collaborative bulletin board application for sharing resources.

PowerSchool Schoology - Learning Management System for hosting courses and groups making it easy for students to find, access, and share materials and learning.

Seesaw - Content Management System for sharing digital messages with families and students and collecting their work from them.