Microworlds is a coding platform that is free for Canadian residents and schools.

Versions are also availalbe in Cree and Ojibwe.

If you download this the book "Getting Started with Coding: Get Creative with Code" by Camille McCue

Join the communities to get free activities, resources and projects!

Whether you’re a parent/guardian or a student learning independently, the options below are engaging, easy-to-try ways to begin your exploration of computer science.

Try an Hour of Code
Watch a short video series about the basics of CS
Take an introductory, self-paced course
Create a game or an app
Try CS without a computer ('unplugged' & mobile options)
Learn CS from the Code.org team and special guests

"TakingITGlobal is launching Code to Learn@Home to continue to serve students during COVID-19 closures. In partnership with LCSI, Cisco, Fair Chance Learning, and with support from the Government of Canada, we're offering coding and computational thinking learning experiences for students of all ages."

You can find past live videos here to do at home (or at school!).

"Introducing our AI Teaching Assistant: Designed for CS educators, it offers instant, insightful project assessments, enabling teachers to concentrate on inspiring and connecting with their students."

Also: AI curriculum, Professional Learning, AI Videos

With a focus on experiential learning, Brock University students worked collaboratively with Niagara Catholic District School Board teachers to develop engaging, coding-based activities for students that were explicitly or implicitly about mathematics. For more information, read the News Article from Brock University.

Teams first explored some resources developed by Dr. George Gadanidis, which led them to further develop 4 CT-based math tasks, which summaries you can access below.

1. Probability & Scratch
2. Exploring Geometry & Patterning with Coding
3. Creating a T-Shaped Puzzle with CNC
4. DASHing the way to Scratch

Codingville offers an easy and engaging way for students to learn coding/digital skills in a self-directed online environment.

Students and teachers will develop their coding/digital skills through Blockly coding. Blockly coding is a visual coding language where the user builds code by stacking ‘blocks’ together. These ‘blocks’ are chunks of code that can be translated into professional textual code, which is JavaScript. Students will learn how to code by using Blockly in a series of ‘Journeys’. Each journey culminates with a capstone project, and a final project that focuses on developing a web app. A journey is approximately 21 hours of content and is differentiated into specific grade groupings and skill sets: Grades 1-3 students, Grades 4-6 students and Grades 7-12 (middle/high school).

The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. Check out the tutorials and activities. This grassroots campaign is supported by over 400 partners and 200,000 educators worldwide.

Students can code for just an hour, or complete full courses.

The courses are in 45 different languages.

There are even coding activities that can be down without computers called "unplugged".

"APERÇU
Construisez un cœur mécanique qui utilise un capteur de pouls pour faire battre le cœur avec le vôtre.

COMPÉTENCES + OBJECTIFS
Construction

Construire le projet en suivant les instructions d'assemblage
Menuiserie
Principes de base de la menuiserie et quincaillerie
Codage
& Plus !
** Des kits sont disponibles à l'achat sur makestuffmove.com **"

"Free podcasts: Listen to our free podcasts and learn or improve your French on the go, where and when it suits you.

Online courses: Take the next step and sign up for a course on the Coffee Break Academy, accessing video materials, lesson notes and bonus audio content.

Join in: Improve your vocabulary, build your language skills and keep up with the Coffee Break French team on social media."

This task assesses a student's ability to use the addition rule to compute a probability and to interpret a probability in context.

Students are exptected to identify the slope of the line with the unit rate in this real world problem.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about coins and bills.

Today we’re going to step back from hardware and software, and take a closer look at how the backdrop of the cold war and space race and the rise of consumerism and globalization brought us from huge, expensive codebreaking machines in the 1940s to affordable handhelds and personal computers in the 1970s. This is an era that saw huge government funded projects - like the race to the moon. And afterward, a shift towards the individual consumer, commoditization of components, and the rise of the Japanese electronics industry.

This art history video discussion examines Thomas Cole's "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden," 1828, oil on canvas, 100.96 x 138.43 cm / 39-3/4 x 54-1/2 inches (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.

Designed to help teachers build positive relationships with families, this Module highlights the diversity of families and addresses the factors that school personnel should understand about working with the families of children with disabilities (est. completion time: 1 hour).

A Power Point presentation offering effective communication starters. As well, a rubric to assess group work is included.

Connected to Health USC4.5- Students learn to collaborate with others by role playing and practicing.

Powerpoint to go through together as a class. Word handout for the students. Target upper elementary students.

These are example rubrics for measuring growth in COLLABORATION. Rubrics are provided for K-5, 6-9 and 10-12.