My students need to a code-a-piller, crayons, and paper to create a coding jungle!
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
My NYC public school students live in a neighborhood which contains one of NYC's largest low income housing community. In their day-to-day lives, some can see a lot of ugliness, and the majority of them find school a safe way to escape that.
As their technology teacher, I recognize my students as smart, creative individuals who have the potential to shatter the "kid from the projects" stereotype.
They deserve to be provided with opportunities so that they can move on and become well-educated productive members of society. My goal is for them to be able to have choices which they never thought were possible.
My Project
All children look up to older kids... School is no exception! While my older students are using the computer to code and create fun video games, or use legos to build and program robots, my younger student's aren't ready for those projects just yet. Even though they want to do all those fun activities they aren't developmentally appropriate for early childhood classes (Grades PK-2). With this in mind, I would love to introduce Code-a-piller to my classroom.
Code-a-piller would allow my eager early childhood students the opportunity to be like "the big kids" and do "fun projects." This exciting tool essentially looks like a toy but is an age appropriate way to teach the foundations of coding!
The students will work in teams to make the code-a-piller move. Once they have learned the basics, we get to be creative. We will then create our "coding jungle" out of paper and crayons which will have obstacles for our code-a-pillar to go through and around.
I know that introducing this exciting tool to my classes will not only ignite excitement but will allow my early learners to learn teamwork, practice fine motor skills, and introduce computer programming skills.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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