Showing posts with label Computer Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Science. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Become a better problem solver by thinking computationally

New CT Activities from Barefoot Computing 

Due to the popularity of the Barefoot Computing free home learning resources, they have added 4 new learning together activities and 3 new interactive online games!
 
Go to the Barefoot ‘At Home’ page, to discover their toolkit of activities that aims to help families develop their computational thinking skills in a fun and interactive way at home.
 
From baking cakes to breaking codes hidden in poetry, families will learn about algorithms, decomposition and debugging in our offline activities.



Shopping List
Code Breakers
2D Shapes
Building Blocks
Activity Instructions.pdf
Activity Instructions.pdf
Activity Instructions.pdf
Activity Instructions.pdf
Supporting Worksheets.pdf 
Supporting Worksheets.pdf
Supporting Worksheets.pdf
Supporting Worksheets.pdf

Their new games also promote learning and will whisk children off to our very own Barefoot Farm for an introduction to algorithms and patterns, into Space to learn about variables and even get them using logical reasoning as part of a mission to retrieve a sparkling diamond locked inside a vault…



 
 
To view all of their home learning resources click the link below:
https://www.barefootcomputing.org/homelearning



Jon Chip talks about Computational Thinking:

Jon Chip computational thinking - Subtitles from Barefoot Computing on Vimeo.

Download the Computational Thinking Poster



Thanks to Barefoot Computing for creating and sharing amazing learning resources!



Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Have you tried Breakout EDU?

Breakout EDU is super fun and challenging. 
If you have ever experienced an escape room it’s similar but in reverse. With Breakout EDU 
you solve the puzzles to open the locks and ultimately you break into the box not out of the room.  


Currently, Breakout EDU is offering a free live online daily game with prizes 
(I suspect the prizes could be for US Schools only - but not sure)

They started this on the 14th of April and have continued from Monday to Friday since.
You can go back and try the pre-recorded ones. Just make sure you pause the video before
 the answers are given.  
   
https://www.breakoutedu.com/live

Yesterday's Breakout was designed to celebrate Starwars Day:  


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