On the first week back from Winter Break first graders wrapped up their Marble Run Projects in the Tech Lab while learning to be debuggers! This activity is part of Unspotted Bugs lesson in the CS Fundamentals Course.
First graders learned what a bug is in programming and learned that it takes persistence to be a debugger. They applied their new debugging skills to their Marble Run projects, which they made out of cardstock and tape.
When they were ready to test they had to spot the bugs along their Marble Run and work together in pairs to debug and fix the problem.
Here's an example video of an elaborate Marble Run with tunnels and a small bug near the very end that the students had to spot and fix.
Students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade had a busy Hour of Code Week with activities scheduled during their Tech Class and recess time!
Kindergartners and first graders have been learning to code with Code.org's Express Course over the past few weeks prior to CSEDWeek. In Tech Class they continued working on their challenging programming puzzles with Scrat and BB8!
Second graders have been learning to program with Wonder Workshop's Dash and Dot since the beginning of the year! For their Hour of Code challenge they participated in Wonder Workshop's #FunWithCode Dancing Contest. They programmed their own dance moves for Dash to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk".
3rd graders have been creating elaborate spaces in virtual reality with CoSpaces Edu this semester! For Hour of Code, they were given a CoSpaces Edu CoBlocks Christmas themed coding challenge.
During recess time throughout the entire week students had the opportunity to visit the Tech Lab experience other activities that involved programming and robotics, including Sphero Bowling, Bloxels, The new Hour of Code Dance activity, and more!
Students are looking forward to continue their programming practice and Hour of Code 2019!
The Lower School Hackers Club at 'Iolani School is brand new this year! It was started by three eager 4th graders with an interest and desire to MAKE! Their first project was to make a voting machine for our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair in the library. The idea was borrowed from this online guide: Makey Your Own Exit Ticket or Data Tracker. The LS Hackers worked together to design and create a voting machine that would allow shoppers to share what kind of book they purchased at the book fair.
