Coding in
Exeter-Milligan Elementary
Carter, Aidan, and Landon working
to build their structure.
During the month of
February, the 4-6th grade have been working with coding for an hour each week.
They have been logging into Code.cog and progressing through one of the units.
The first hands on activity was to write a program for stacking cups. The students
had to draw arrows on a card for stacking the cups a certain way and then their
human robot had to read the card and do what it said without words from anyone.
The students soon found “bugs” in their program and had to fix the “bugs”.
Students were given
a journal to write code in as they went through the program. They found it to
be very interesting and predictable after a while on what the code would be for
certain moves. The last hands-on activity was to create a structure with given
material that would hold a book for 10 seconds without collapsing. They worked
in groups and soon fixed the “bugs” in their structure to get it to stand and
support the book. They learned how to work through their frustration and used
persistence to complete the project.
This introduction
was all a segway to the “Coding Club” that has been started for 4-6th graders
the final quarter of this school year. The Coding Club will meet most Thursday
afternoons, after school. Students will work with a variety of software
applications, participate in computer activities like computer programming and
coding, and familiarize themselves with computer technology and with computer
fundamentals. Dash and Dot, robots, will make an appearance sometime in April
for the club to work and program the robots to go different places.
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