If a condition is true then do a certain action.
We will do this with two different games.
Simple offline games are really effective at teaching kids the following simple programming concepts: How we will use games to teach programming skills: See it along with some of their other kits here. Most importantly if you enjoy this challenge AWIM has a wonderful classroom-based kit called Programming Each Other that you can use when you resume in-person classes. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done! Consider using games like today’s mazes for students to try at home.
The module is full of more games, videos, and challenges to teach kids programming concepts in a fun and engaging way!įor Educators: With distance and hybrid learning models in place this school year it’s a challenge to incorporate enrichment curriculum into the online school day. It’s called Thinking Computationally and you can see it here.
The program is called SAE and the resources include digital storybooks to inspire engineering projects, a curated selection of projects, and learning modules for families that want to go further in their explorations.ĪWIM developed a special at-home module to accompany this project. Supported by the generous donors of the SAE Foundation, they have reached more than 6 million students worldwide and engaged more than 30,000 STEM industry professionals as volunteers.įor Parents: Since the start of distance learning, SAE has been generously sharing many of their educational resources online for families who want to do STEM based activities at home. SAE and AWIM are hosting a STEM Innovations contest right now with incredible prizes for kids and teachers! For more info head to the end of the post and see the Chowdhury STEM Innovations Contest details.ĪWIM has been providing hands-on STEM experiences in classrooms around the globe for over 30 years, enabling students to develop the 21st century skills needed to succeed in real-world work environments and connect classroom learning with real-life application.
Earlier this year I worked with SAE on the Skimmer Engineering Challenge and Paper Parachute Toy Based on Nature and introduced you to their online resources.Īnd psst…teaming up with them again on today’s games helped me face my own coding fears head-on! I am very excited to be partnering up again with the SAE AWIM program for today’s games. I can’t wait to show you what I mean in today’s project! We are going to do it with two simple games OFFLINE! And it will make you excited to do even more coding activities with your kids at home.
In the past I avoided most coding projects with my kids and students because I believed them to be just too hard to facilitate for a more hands-on activity style person like me.īut I recently realized this truth about programing and coding: You don’t need a computer or any fancy software to teach kids the basics of programming. This post is sponsored by SAE International’ s A World In Motion® (AWIM) STEM program. Most of us didn’t study computer science and robotics so we feel unqualified trying to incorporate tech projects into our creative activities. And when I say people, I mean parents/grandparents/teachers. Of all the STEAM subjects, technology is the one that intimidates people the most. Want to know the secret to teaching kids about computer programming? Start offline with easy coding games for kids to introduce basic programming concepts.