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This is a very easy to use, ready-made curriculum for teaching coding. There are lots of different lessons using familiar characters, like Star Wars, Minecraft, Frozen, Angry Birds, etc.

Learn to code/teach your students to code. Learn computer science and computational thinking and teach your students. Create an account and take an online course. Self-paced coursework for students. Learn how to teach computer science using code.org's Computer Science Fundamentals with a free, self-paced online course.

Learn to code interactively, for free. I could see using something like this to get teachers more comfortable with coding, so teaching coding happens more than one hour a year.

Velvet Holmes' WEMTA Presentation Includes stats, myths about coding, and what students learn from coding

The basics of coding will be the focus of this unit, while also learning to read, write, and debug code.

STEM: Facebook is pledging $15 million over the next five years to Code.org to enable the nonprofit to expand access to computer science education, in an effort to improve diversity in the technology industry. The news comes after Facebook released a report on the diversity of its own employees earlier today.

Article discusses teaching coding to students even without a computer.

In researching Khan Academy more in-depth, I've found that there is a section called Hour of Code under the digital resources. I use "Hour of Code" from Code.org, but this resource actually takes you through 10-15 steps of the coding process, with short videos to open each section, and then they have the kids complete the task. You can sign up for a free 30 day trial if you don't have a login for Khan. Then you can create a class list, assign students, etc...The content would be ok for 5th grade and up.

Reviews of 32 Coding Tools with Pro and Cons and ideas for using in the classroom.

This is being used by some of our 5th grade teachers for their students. I plan to use it myself when working on getting makerspaces in my library including spheros, dot and dash, etc...

This could be used in conjunction with the Hour of Code implemented with students in December.

This could be used in conjunction with the Hour of Code implemented with students in December.

This is a free resource available to teach coding. Is it beneficial? Is it easy to implement?

Coaching tip sheet from code.org

They will send everything for free that you will need to set up a coding club!  Did an aftershool coding club with help from local high school students.  Students loved it, and continued with the program after the club sessions ended.

Promoting coding to parents

Anyone can learn the basic concepts of Computer Science. Great to use in Makerstation, coding projects.

This is an online course that would be excellent to use with our 8th graders who are learning robotics and Scratch right now. Engaging them in several different types of basic coding activities can help show how the elements of computer programming are constant whether they are working in javascript or RobotC or Scratch, though the terminology might vary a little. This can help prepare them for more advanced programming classes in HS.