Computational Thinking

 Here is a Scratch lesson I do with grade 5 kids when teaching patterns on geometry. 

Here is the pattern that the Scratch program created, about 3/4 of the way through the process.

To teach coding, I generally use code.org, which I find to be very useful for kids to learn at their own pace. I have used it for kids as young as kindergarten, and like their paper-based coding for Day of Code events.

I use https://microbit.org/  to code micro:bits.  This shows some real life functionality with little computers that they can hold in their hands.

All three of these platforms use block coding, which is great for beginners. Kids can expand to other coding programs if they like.

Software note:  I used ScreenCastify to create this video, and loaded it onto my YouTube channel to embed it into my Blog. You can embed ScreenCastify videos directly into your google.classroom stream without using a YouTube account.