Do all students have existing Scratch accounts? i.e. can they save Scratch programs to work on again the following week?
If not, can they export them to a home drive or something?
Do students have a home drive in primary school?
Can they access any of those shared resources from the Chromebooks, from home, from the Dell laptops?
Are the following sites accessible and working at school?
The pages below are intended to be a sequence of activities for learning the named topics. Some of the topics definitely overlap, for instance, you could usefully do basic Javascript as part of woof.js, before woof.js, and even as part of learning HTML/CSS to make it more fun. These linkages should become apparent as we develop the activities.
The Australian curriculum links for 5-6 for these types of activities are mainly:
Design, modify and follow simple algorithms involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition) (ACTDIP019)
We should also record the key learning outcomes and understandings associated with each activity to ensure we have a coherent sequence of learning coding concepts.
If not, can they export them to a home drive or something?
Do students have a home drive in primary school?
Can they access any of those shared resources from the Chromebooks, from home, from the Dell laptops?
Are the following sites accessible and working at school?
The pages below are intended to be a sequence of activities for learning the named topics. Some of the topics definitely overlap, for instance, you could usefully do basic Javascript as part of woof.js, before woof.js, and even as part of learning HTML/CSS to make it more fun. These linkages should become apparent as we develop the activities.
The Australian curriculum links for 5-6 for these types of activities are mainly:
For reference, here is the link to an "above average" portfolio of learning at the end of 5-6 using Scratch:
http://resources.australiancurriculum.edu.au/work-portfolios/digital-technologies-above-satisfactory-years-5-and-6/digital-project-scratch-game-above/
We should also record the key learning outcomes and understandings associated with each activity to ensure we have a coherent sequence of learning coding concepts.
Stuff I haven't looked at yet but looks interesting...
Resources we had to reject (because they're not free)
Or because they are too advanced or move too quickly