SMARTboards for Programming
- 1. Teaching Programming with SMARTboards By Nora Husani
- 2. A lesson plan... This is an example of a lesson plan slide I found on teaching drag and drop programming to middle school students with a SMARTboard The students would be able to fill in the boxes on the SMARTboard and “run the code” to see what it would do!
- 4. Passion for Programming I chose this lesson plan because I have a huge passion for teaching kids how to code! I started a club here at Miami where we teach local 3rd-5th graders how to code every single week! After learning about SMARTboards I thought that they would be a great resource for teaching kids to code! Target Learners: I would use this lesson plan for elementary school students (4th and 5th grade) Subject Area: Computer Science
- 5. Lesson Plan from SMART Exchange The coding and programming blocks lesson plan I chose can be found at: http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=7001f302-29f2-4caf-907a- ff574ee43533
- 6. How to use the resources ● Lesson plan allows for students to interact with the SMARTboard by filling in the blanks in the coding “blocks” with their own code! ● The students would then run the code to see what it does!
- 7. Alterations/Changes to Lesson Plan ● I would add a warm up/brain teaser section to get the kids thinking about programming and problem solving before we dived into the actual coding ● I would have a pre-discussion on what the kids thought programming was ● In addition to using the SMARTboard I would have the kids act out what the code is doing before they run it on the SMARTboard ● I would add some summary questions after we had finished the activity to review what we had learned
- 8. Universal Design ● Large font, easier to read ● Audio features (helpful for those who cannot read or see) ● Discussion portions for those who learn better through talking ● Hands on portion for those who learn better through doing ● https://scratch.mit.edu/ offers the same lesson plans that you can do without a SMARTboard if you do not have accesss to one!
- 9. Other ways to teach kids to code! I discovered that there are many other resources to teach kids to code besides SMARTboards: ● https://code.org/ ● http://www.sphero.com/ ● http://codemonkeyplanet.com/