How to teach your kid algorithmic thinking — Recommendations
How to encourage girls' interest in tech — Newsletter No.31
Hi! Hope you had a nice summer and are ready to dig in. This week, we’ll focus on hot to teach your kid algorithmic thinking. Learning patterns and sequencing is a critical skill necessary in order to learn how to code for kids. And — you can do it without even touching the screen :)
Dot Sticker Coding
Dot sticker coding is a fun early learning coding activity for preschoolers. Prepare your preschooler to learn coding with this easy pattern/coding activity using dot stickers.
All you need is a muffin pan, dot stickers, and pom poms (or legos, m&ms, etc.) for this simple but fun coding activity for preschoolers. Find the full tutorial here.
Coding Game: Save the ocean
For this one, all you need is a printer and your kid will learn basic principles of Computer Science while helping sea creatures by cleaning up the plastic in the ocean. Get the templates and instructions here.
Egg carton coding activity
This unplugged coding activity will teach kids to design an algorithm to capture all the egg prizes and avoid the hot lava rocks. Check out the full instructions here.
Code Your Name Bracelets Craft
Perfect for crafty kids, this easy coding craft teaches kids about basic binary code, a two symbol system, usually 0s and 1s, most computers use to encode instructions and data. Here you’ll find all the details.
Let us know how it went! And, if you find it useful, please share this newsletter with someone — growing our community means a lot to us, but also to girls around us. The more of them understand the fun side of tech, the easier it will get for us to show it to them :)