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What's in the Hour-of-code? Try any of Tynker's 8 free Hour of Code tutorials: Puppy Adventure Mini - a Beginner coding puzzle Puppy Play Time - a free play activity for Beginners Lost in Space - a Beginner coding puzzle Sketch Racer - an Intermediate coding puzzle Space Zombies - an Intermediate Build-a-Game tutorial Puppy Adventure Complete - an Intermediate puzzle and debugging tutorial Math Art - an Intermediate tutorial to learn how to program to draw shapes. 15 block Challenge - a free play activity to spur creative juices. What do these tutorials teach? The puzzles are designed to teach students the basics of computer programming such as sequencing, repetition, and conditional logic. Students solve each puzzle by connecting visual code blocks to achieve a goal.

Phil Tulga has a musical activity coding words as morse, and then writing music with it. Morse uses the idea from information theory that more probable symbols should have shorter codes, so there's computer science in that too!

Linda Liukas's project Hello Ruby smashed its Kickstarter funding goal in under four hours.

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Sample KS2 Computing Plan A sample document showing how some of my planning could be used across KS2 incoporating most aspects of the new computing curriculum whilst keeping essential digital literacy skills.

Sample KS2 Computing Plan A sample document showing how some of my planning could be used across KS2 incoporating most aspects of the new computing curriculum whilst keeping essential digital literacy skills.

Phil is a CAS (Computing at Schools) Regional Coordinator, Primary Computing Master Teacher funded by the DfE and Hampshire Computing Lead Teacher. In 2013 he spoke about Computing in the primary phase at the CAS England conference, CAS Wales conference and the CAS Scotland conference. He has a wealth of computing and ICT experience as he was an ICT advanced Skills Teacher for many years. Phil facilitates the CAS primary group whose aim has been to include computing science into the primary curriculum. Phil was involved at the drafting stage in creating and refining the new Computing Curriculum through the BCS and CAS. Phil currently teaches computing science in five Hampshire junior schools where he has created a curriculum that covers all the objectives of the new National Curriculum and promotes Mathematical understanding. Phil can be contacted for advice about improving Computing at your school.

Phil is a CAS (Computing at Schools) Regional Coordinator, Primary Computing Master Teacher funded by the DfE and Hampshire Computing Lead Teacher. In 2013 he spoke about Computing in the primary phase at the CAS England conference, CAS Wales conference and the CAS Scotland conference. He has a wealth of computing and ICT experience as he was an ICT advanced Skills Teacher for many years. Phil facilitates the CAS primary group whose aim has been to include computing science into the primary curriculum. Phil was involved at the drafting stage in creating and refining the new Computing Curriculum through the BCS and CAS. Phil currently teaches computing science in five Hampshire junior schools where he has created a curriculum that covers all the objectives of the new National Curriculum and promotes Mathematical understanding. Phil can be contacted for advice about improving Computing at your school.

There are so many IOS applications. This planning just concentrates on the core skills. Most sessions should concentrate on the curriculum areas you wish to support using the IPod or IPads. You may wish to have a look at using IPods within a class.

There are so many IOS applications. This planning just concentrates on the core skills. Most sessions should concentrate on the curriculum areas you wish to support using the IPod or IPads. You may wish to have a look at using IPods within a class.

Students begin to understand how algorithms work by creating sandwiches and the teacher is a sandwich bot.

Students begin to understand how algorithms work by creating sandwiches and the teacher is a sandwich bot.

This guide provides an introduction to creative computing with Scratch, using a design-based learning approach. It is organized as a series of twenty 60-minute sessions, and includes session plans, handouts, projects, and videos.