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Challenge: SmileyFace

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Two smiley faces are better than one. The interactive lesson challenges pupils to use methods to alter a program to make it more efficient. Individuals use the new code to create multiple smiley faces that speak. The engaging activity is...
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Eva's Code

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students understand the importance of punctuation in a sentence. In this codes lesson plan, students write a pen pal letter using codes for the punctuation. Students send a key to break the code if needed.
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Patterns of Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholars examine codes, symbols, and other forms of communication. They discuss Morse Code. Next, they are given messages written in code, which they must decipher. 
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Practice: Using While Loops

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Test your knowledge of loops with this short online quiz about using the while statement in JavaScript code. Get five questions correct in a row and you're done!
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Challenge: Double Rainbow

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Draw a rainbow over the rainbow. The second segment in a series of six has the class practice using functions to edit a program that draws a rainbow. After creating the function, the interactive lesson challenges pupils to create another...
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The Note Was in Code!

For Students 1st Standards
While it's quite an ode, this short poem uses the long /o/ sound repeatedly in words like code, note, alone, and phone. Kids read the selection and answer three comprehension questions about the text.
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Zip Codes

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discover how a zip code is used. In this zip code lesson, students use the parts of a zip code to find where a letter is going, then find the first number of zip codes based on geographic regions.
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NUMB3RS Activity: Coded Messages

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using matrix multiplication and inverse matrices, students are trying to uncode a coded message. Students encrypt simple messages using 2 x 2 matrices.
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Challenge: Favorite Fruits

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Creating a list of favorite fruits is the perfect use of an array in coding. Practice defining and using arrays in this simple activity of creating an array and printing out each element in the array.  
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Code Breaking

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore symbolism and examine various types of codes, including those used in the Civil War, which use/d mathematical symbols and language. They create and break various codes.
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Welcome to the Computer Science Platform

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
You don't need to know how to code in order to teach your students! Show them learning is a lifelong skill by learning along with them. Take this activity for example; the code is on the left, and the result is on the right. Can you...
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Rainbow Sentences

For Students 1st - 8th
Learners who struggle with grammar, foundational reading skills, and sentence composition can learn how to write proper sentences using an app that relies on research-based practice. It uses a color-coded formula that had been proven to...
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Challenge: Bucktooth Bunny

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Practice creating and using variables by creating variables for the bunny's eyes and teeth in this JavaScript task. Use the slider above the number to see the power of using variables in your code. 
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Project: Design an Animal

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Combine creativity and coding in an activity where you are free to create your own animal. Try for something recognizable or not, the design is up to your unique students. The challenge is to use variables and variable expressions so...
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Eighteenth-Century Slave Codes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore slavery by reviewing the written laws intended to keep African Americans subservient. In this U.S. slavery lesson, students analyze a time-line of the history of African Americans. Students discuss the patterns of the...
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Project: Public Transportation

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Have your charges race their car creations across the screen in a JavaScript activity. Coders start with a small program that shows one wheel moving across the screen. Use this as a good place to start and challenge your young...
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Challenge: Calculator

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Calculators aren't all that useful if they don't return the correct results. In this JavaScript programming exercise, beginning JavaScript coders are guided to fix the results returned by the functions so they return correct values....
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Challenge: Favorite Animals

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
I'm not scared of lions & tigers & bears; in fact, they are on my favorites list! Have your young coders practice creating arrays and using loops. First they define the array as a list of favorite animals, then print them out...
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Project: Ad Design

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Let your young programmers' creativity and programming knowledge shine with this culminating activity. Coders put together everything they know about using text commands, drawing, and animation to create a unique ad. This activity could...
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Challenge: H for Hopper

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
An "H" is just three rectangles when you are trying to draw them on a computer screen. After watching the previous Intro to Drawing video this online programing activity guides young coders to draw the letter "H" on the screen. Help and...
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Challenge: Mouse Tracker

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Create a small but useful little program that allows you move a dot with your mouse and see the coordinates change as the mouse moves.  Starting with a dot that moves with the mouse, add to this program the text of the points coordinates...
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Project: Crazy Painter

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
An activity titled Crazy Painter might not be high on your list of new things to try with your class; however, you will be happy to know this task has your young coders writing a mess-free painter application in JavaScript. The goal is...
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Challenge: Number Analyzer

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
The JavaScript program you create will answer a simple question about a number. Is it positive, negative, or zero? Create a Boolean expression and use conditional if statements to test the value and then print the results. 
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Challenge: Smarter Button

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Now, challenge your knowledge of Boolean operators even further with this JavaScript program to create a button that changes color after being pressed. This activity is the second in a series and would made a good follow up to the first...

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