CS First Unplugged activities
This challenge has been written by Google and is part of the EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES.
Target Audience
- Students (6-12)
Experience
- Beginner
Duration
- 1 hour
Purpose
- To support students who are learning from home
- To give everyone a break from their screens
Recommended Materials
- In addition to the activity booklet, some activities require or optionally benefit from additional materials.
- Small counters (like dried beans) to use on the Network a Neighborhood map.
- Scissors to cut out the Send a Secret Message cipher wheel.
- Cardboard and glue to provide additional stiffness to the Send a Secret Message cipher wheel.
- A thumbtack, toothpick, or straightened paper clip to connect the Send a Secret Message cipher wheel.
Description
CS First Unplugged is a set of activities that introduce students to CS concepts without a computer. We’ve designed this lesson to demonstrate that Computer Science is a lot more than just code.
Instructions
- You will find the booklet to all activities in English at this link, as well as Lesson Plan in English at this link.
- The activities in this lesson can be completed individually and in any order.
- Teacher can take a picture of the learning process and share it on Instagram using #CodeWeekChallengeGoogle #GrowWithGoogle.
- You will find the lesson plan and booklet for this challenge at this link.
Share the link to your work in your Instagram Bio: tap the Edit Profile button on your Instagram and add the link to your work in the Website field. After that, create a new post, add a screenshot of your work, write “Link in Bio”, add the hashtag #CodeWeekChallenge and mention @CodeWeekEU.
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Winners will be selected and offered Code Week goodies every day during Code Week between 9 – 24 October and announced on our Instagram and Facebook channels, so don't forget to check your notifications regularly.
You prefer to share your challenge(s) on Facebook? EU Code Week will pin a new Challenge post on their Facebook page . You then just need to comment on the post with the link to your work.
Winners will be selected and offered Code Week goodies every day during Code Week between 9 – 24 October and announced on our Instagram and Facebook channels, so don't forget to check your notifications regularly.
Complete all the Challenges
Challenge completed? Print the bingo card and mark the little white bubble on the top left
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Just upload a picture with the completed row(s), column(s) or even better - the whole bingo - to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter
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The EU Code Week website for schools is a service supported by the European Commission
Except where stated otherwise, content made available on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Licensing under Creative Commons licenses does not of itself affect the ownership of the copyright
Content from third party websites is subject to their own copyright restrictions; please refer to the site of origin for more information.