Logical Thinking and Programming - YCS - YES Technology

(New website as of 1/16/2018)

Week 1

Introductions and Games

Hour of Code, continued

Earlier this school year all students at YES participated in the Hour of Code project during the week of December 4-8.
This after school class will continue with the online and "unplugged" Code.org resources.
Algorithms
Each student has an account and can login during class or at home. Click the image below, select a name and then use a picture password.
Some of the materials can only be done on a laptop, record the number of the laptop you use if you save anything.
Click here or on the Hour of Code image below to go to a student login for the class.

Week 2

1. Making Circuits - Games

Week 3

1. Working with Scratch

Scratch Jr. on the iPads (video)

Try one of these Activity cards:

Then you may try to create a Scratch Jr. program yourself
Ask Mrs. Wolinsky if you want a to use a book of resources on Scratch Jr.

3 Scratch - this can only be done on the Laptops

Getting started with Scratch Videos - click on Introductory Tutorials to see some tips for getting started in Scratch
To get to Scratch use Firefox or Chrome to go to scratch.mit.edu
Ready to work on these Scratch Starter Projects?
Inventwithscratch.com

Working with a partner, set up a 3rd computer to watch the videos and then practice on your own computer starting at scratch.mit.edu

Note: If you want to save a project go to File>Download to your computer

Give the project a name and save it to the Documents folder - let me know if you need help.

4:30 Time to share projects

Week 3

Lego Wedo
iPad Apps - Kodable, Beebot, Lightbot, the Foos
Lightbot is for Mac or PC , iOS App, or Android App
Click here or on the Hour of Code image below to go to a student login to continue from week 1 in the class.

Week 4

Station Rotation

Ozobots and Evobots exploration

Getting started

Ozobot videos
Evobot videos
Drawing for Ozobots videos

Explore the Ozobot sheets and make your own color paths and commands
Use Ozoblockly to program the Ozobot using a laptop: go to http://ozoblockly.com/editor and Mrs. Wolinsky for the sheets to guide you

Makey Makey circuits
Kano
- Pixel kit
- More Ideas
iPad Apps - Kodable, Beebot, the Foos, Lightbot
Lego WeDo continued - can you make your own project?

Click here or on the Hour of Code image below to go to a student login to continue from week 1 in the class.

Also, any of the choices on the YES Hour of Code

Week 5 - 6

Continue to design & create, use any of the earlier weeks or create your own game in the Play Lab:

Need more challenge?

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