ELP Mo. Valley

The 5th Grade ELP have been working on coding and creating original scripts/storyboards/games at www.code.org.  Below is a link created by Brody Lager, Miss Larson's 5th Grade class, about the importance of teamwork.  He took our character education and Family Group lesson on teamwork to design a "video game" themed storyboard. The 20th Century Learner in me isn't quite sure how to activate the link within this blog.....so, please copy and paste the link in to your web browser and ENJOY!  I love the amount of learning/collaboration and problem solving I witness in this group of scholars.  I also, LOVE, the amount of learning they share with me, so I can become a more 21st century thinker too : ) copy and paste: https://studio.code.org/c/282516767 Brody, in the yellow, was the creator and navigator for the visual script created.  He collaborated with Dane Janssen, Ben Hansen and Vincent Larson on character emotions and dialogue.   TEAM--Together, Everyone

At the end of last year, I have several students who kept talking about this "coding thing" and www.code.org.   Not one to be left out, I decided I needed to learn about this coding thing.  In early October I attended a code.org training class and left feeling completely "hooked"!   The 1st-5th grade ELP students will be working their way through the various stages of www.code.org (a free website established to strengthen computer science skills in a fun, sequential and visual way).  The students and I work our way through building visual coding scripts to complete a variety of tasks.   Below are a few pictures of our current endeavors.  And the link at the bottom is my very first attempt at coding a storyboard/game.  You can cut and past the link into your web browser and, hopefully, it will play the short message I programmed. Stay tuned for further coding adventures...... 5th Grade students brainstorming the next step in creating their first visual script