Most children, by the age of 7, will already have an interest in coding, which we can foster. Many of them will like playing games and will ask questions such as “How can I make him go faster / jump higher / turn around?”. Given the chance, they like designing avatars or changing the colours Full Article…
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Menna’s Second Programme: Learning about ‘Not’
Rather than repeat the background information, if you have hit on this post for the first time, we suggest that you look at the introductory lesson first, which will explain where we are coming from. This activity introduces the idea of ‘not’ – as in the syntax “If this, then NOT this.” We introduced Full Article…
My First Programme – by Gweno, age 3!
These activities were undertaken with 3-5 year olds and they took them in their stride! “Key Stage 1 Pupils should be taught to: understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices, and that programs execute by following a sequence of instructions” Even the word ‘algorithm’ can send many primary Full Article…
Positives, negatives and equivalences
(Our 8 year old tester coped well with this and enjoyed the ‘puzzle’) Make sure than children understand basic “If this then this” type statements. Talk about cause and effect. Play around with the positives and negatives and with ‘opposites’. For those people teaching literacy, this is a good time to explore ‘double negatives’. Full Article…
Human Robots
This is best done outside in the yard and works best with 6-8 yr olds Divide the class into groups of about 5. One person in each group is chosen as the robot and is blindfolded. Another is the programmer (or choose two and let them take it in turns). The rest are going to Full Article…
Melody Morph
Eric Rosenbaum, creator of Singing Fingers, is working on a new app called Melody Morph – iPad app for constructing melodies and making improvised music. He says.. “MelodyMorph …. removes a constraint of traditional musical instruments: a fixed mapping between space and pitch. What if you blew up the piano so you could put the keys Full Article…
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