Hi . I volunteer at a local community center and want to teach kids about coding … The kids range in age from kindergarten through elementary school 6th grade. I would love suggestions on how to structure the lessons and where I should start first.
Hi! Will the kids be in mixed-aged groups? Or, will they be separated into age groups?
Megan
They will be in mixed age groups
Gotcha. In that case, I recommend two options:
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Use our express course (https://curriculum.code.org/csf-19/express/) which is a combo of lessons from a variety of our A-F courses. The main difference is that the express course does not include out unplugged lessons, which you can find here: https://code.org/curriculum/unplugged
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Start all students on the same course (https://curriculum.code.org/csf-19/) and move forward as a group. Since you and the students are new to these courses, starting earlier in the series will be ideal.
Good luck!
Thank you… I think i will teach them all in a group
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Hello. I am a Technology/Science teacher for K-5th grade students. This past year the kids and I tried the “Hour of Code” tutorials and we all loved them. I very much would like to start teaching the curriculum next school year. As we are now asked to work from home I wanted to start learning how to teach it. Unfortunately a workshop would not be an option right now. So, what would you suggest I can do to start learning on my own?
In regards to your post, I am wonderinf if you have participated in a CSF workshop in the past. If not, maybe the online CSF pd would be helpful. Here is a link: https://studio.code.org/s/k5-onlinepd-2019?section_id=2717718 Hope this helps. Happy coding!