Algorithms and Programming
203 lessons found.
"So, you want to work for the DNI"
This is an introduction to the CyberSecurity aspect of National Intelligence
“Weather” you know or not…. Classroom temperature is a hot topic!
This lesson merges weather, microbit, programming and social impact. Does the temperature of a classroom matter? Yes! In …
“White Energy Journey”
Students will work independently to design a ‘driving base’ using the SPIKE PRIME LEGO sets. Upon completion of the base …
Adding and Subtracting within 20
Using a Scratch Jr. activity, students will program different counter sprites to move into a ten frame. The purpose of …
Adding with Botley
In this lesson, students will be using simple addition problems to code Botley. This is a great way to bring addition to …
Algorithm Neighborhoods
These interdisciplinary lessons encompass standards across Computer Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, and …
Algorithmic Maze
Students will use popsicle sticks to design maze systems and work to create a flowchart that helps a user to find the …
Algorithms
This lesson explains what algorithms are and how they work in relation to computer science. It breaks the concept down …
Algorithms and Programming, Impacts of Computing
Explaining what algorithms are and how computers use them. Students will try to follow a set of step by step …
Algorithms Unplugged
This lesson/activity is an introduction of algorithms. Students will be in small groups and assign someone as a 'bot' …
Algorithms Unplugged
students will be learning how to create an algorithm/sequence by giving set directions to their 'bot' (another student) …
Algorithms with origami
Explaining what algorithms are and how computers use them.
Algorithms With Origami
Explaining what algorithms are and how computers use them.
Alphabetical Order
Using a Scratch Jr. activity, students will program different alphabet letter sprites to line up in alphabetical order. …
aMAZEing Margaret Hamilton
In this lesson students will begin by reading about Margaret Hamilton in 'Margaret and the Moon' by Dean Robbins. After …
Analog and Digital Signals Project
This is a project for students to experience the differences between analog and digital waves. Students will be …
Art in CS
A good introductory lesson for students to learn how to start coding in Scratch. This lesson uses Scratch to teach …
Battle your CuteBot
Get ready to battle your CuteBot car! Develop code for your Microbit using loops, variables, and conditionals to …
Blind Maze - a lesson with combined classes K and 5
This is an unplugged activity where students will work in mixed grade level teams (Kindergarten and 5th grade) to guide …
Blind Maze (Collaborative activity with 5th Grade
This is an unplugged activity, in collaboration with 5th grade, that will help students learn to give directions …
Can you escape the maze?
Students will use two different maze websites throughout the lesson. They will use speaking and listening skills to exit …
Civilizations by the mile
Civilizations by the mile is a 6th grade social studies lesson with a focus on comparing and contrasting the different …
Coding a Story with Ozobots
In this lesson, the students will create their own story or use one that's already made, and draw out that story on a …
Coding and Microbits
In this lesson the students will be introduced to the website MakeCode with programing the microbit simulator. To start …
Coding Critter
The students will create a path for the coding critter to follow using arrow cards and then inputting the directions …
Coding through Stories
Reading is powerful, it can unlock a world of possibilities. Reading and having others read to us can increase our …
Coding with Santa
Using Seesaw, students will complete the maze to get Santa Claus to the Christmas tree ensuring that he gets two cookies …
CODIS & Forensic Science
Students will work together as forensic scientists to solve the crime of “Who broke into our school and stole all the …
Communicating Through History: MicroBit Morse Code
Students will read articles and then construct a timeline of the progression of communication technology in the …
Compression Code
This is an introductory activity used before teaching scientific notation and exponents. Students will learn about …
Computational Thinking
Through this lesson, students will be introduced to the basics of computational thinking including decomposition, …
Creating a Gear Amusement Park
Students will use peer collaboration, engineering, problem solving, & reflection, when given a set of Funny Gears & …
Creating a Scoreboard with Microbits
Create a scoreboard you can use with your microbit. Create a program that you can use to keep score with your games.
Creating Mazes using Kodable
Students will be able to create solvable mazes while applying grade-level geometry concepts on Kodable Maze Maker …
Critical Infrastructure 1
Students will be able to explain what Critical Infrastructure is, what are common components that belong to critical …
Critical Infrastructure 2
Students will be able to demonstrate foundational knowledge and skills that are related to cybersecurity
Cryptography
In this activity students are introduced to The Caesar Cipher and create a cipher wheel and practice using the cipher.
Cryptology
This lesson will help students to understand cryptology. Students will use problem solving skills to encrypt and …
Cryptology with micro:bits
This activity will introduce the Caesar Cipher to students on makecode.micro:bit.org. Students will explore the Caesar …
Cybersecurity Career Poster Project
Students will design a poster project detailing an individual cybersecurity career. The poster project will include …
Daily Life Algorithms (1st Grade)
The teacher will present a slideshow outlining the definition of an algorithm, which will provide examples of algorithms …
Darn! I forgot my password...again!
Middle School Students love to share everything-including their water bottles, their sense of humor and even their …
Data Design
Decomposing a design problem with Elements of Art
Data: Patterns, Cause and Effect
Students will discover, explore, model and communicate patterns found within data. This lesson/activity will incorporate …
Digital and Analog Activity Project
This is a project for students to experience the differences between analog and digital waves. Students will be …
Digital Citizenship Escape Room
Beginning of the year introduction to digital citizenship. Students work through escape room to perform tasks. The tasks …
Discover Digital Citizenship
Students will use a decoder to decode messages that lead to exploration of Digital Citizenship resources. They will then …
Do you want to build a robot
Students will learn about robots, how to program a microbit and create a microbit pet.
Draw a snowflake with code
Draw a snowflake using code.org. My students were really challenged to follow the directions in the lesson, so I created …
Effective Internet and Database Search Strategies
Searching for information on the Internet can be a frustrating experience. However, with an understanding of how …
Egg Drop Experiment using Microbit
Students will investigate and design an experiment that explores Newton’s 2nd Law, momentum and impulse using a …
ELA9: Identifying Point of View using Cyber Security
Analysis of the Unreliable Narrator with Cyber Security
Encrypted Messages to Mars
"The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is an international network of antennas that provide the communication links between …
ESP Problem Solving: A Problem Solving Model
This is an introductory lesson to the problem-solving process. The goal is for students to see that they, in a manner …
Ethics in Technology
Examination of ethical concerns revolving around technology, specifically social media and technology giants like Google
Evolution of the Telephone
Students spend several periods looking at the development of communication over the past 200 years.
Exploration with Tetrix
Tetrix: In this lesson students will sort/ organize the school's Tetrix sets to ensure each set is complete. After …
Explore Block Programming with Free Scratch
Students are introduced to block programing for the first time and are given several sets of tasks to complete to show …
Exploring Potential and Kinetic Energy by Using Hot Wheels and Micro:bits
Students will be exploring potential and kinetic energy (how mass and velocity changes KE, when does an object have the …
Fat Bear Fishing
My 5/6 grade class will use micro:bits to design a predator/prey program on micro:bits that assigns each device a fish …
Flowing into Escape Rooms
This activity requires students to conceptualize a mathematical process into a flow chart. Then they will use said flow …
For Loops
Designed for students learning Java programming, that are beyond the use of block code, the students will make a program …
For Loops
Designed for students learning Java programming, that are beyond the use of block code, the students will make a program …
Fraction Racing
Students engineered mint mobiles to race through a micro bit timing gate. The data was then collected and plotted on a …
Future Job Research
Student is required to 'explore future occupations' as defined by Occupational Outlook Handbook at …
Game of Life Spelling
This lesson is meant to introduce what coding is to elementary aged students and how to use block code. Students will …
GEMS and Algorithms
In this lesson students will engage in discussion about whether order matters. Students will write the steps to their …
Geocaching with Microbits
Geodynamics powers the Earth’s magnetic field, which is magnetic north. There is also a true north which is the Earth’s …
Getting Active with Microbit
They are introduced to variables and develop their understanding through a mixture of unplugged and practical …
Getting started with Micro:bit
Students will explore the functions of the MIcro: bit. Students have not had experience with this and I have very …
Getting the bugs out!
Help! Can you debug the Microbit code? We will look briefly at Grace Hopper to see the origins of debugging. Then …
Getting to Know You, CPU
Students will be introduced to Micro:Bit technology and have the opportunity to program the Micro:Bit to share some …
Grid Coding
This activity focuses on creating a following an algorithm to solve a problem. Using a white shower curtain liner, draw …
Half Life Radioactive Decay with Micro:bits
Introduce basic programming of the micro:bit while reiterating the integration of math in physical science exploring …
Health Care Devices
In this lesson students are reminded about the ever growing uses of technology devices within the healthcare profession, …
Health Care Devices
In this lesson students are reminded about the ever growing uses of technology devices within the healthcare profession, …
HexBug Mazes
In this lesson/activity students will learn about who Margaret Hamilton is and what she did for NASA. Students will be …
Hour of Code introduction/ Ecosystems
this will be an introduction to coding using Hour of Code, as a refresher/ attention grabber right after Christmas …
How Plants Grow : Grow a Digital Garden
Students will be able to use the Scratch Jr. programming blocks to make animated stories and interactive projects that …
I've got a secret!
Bee Boop Bee Boop! This lesson will explore cryptology and ciphers. We will reserach the topic using a scavenger hunt …
Implementing a Counter into Java
Activity Overview: This activity is for more advanced students in the Java Programming language. They will use their own …
Input/Output
In this lesson students will be translating mathematical functions into computer programming functions to solve. This …
Input/Output what's it all about?
Students will learn the definition of input/output as it relates to computing and will use the Micro:bits to demonstrate …
Internet Information Research and Retrieval Processes and Effective Search Strategies
This lesson will introduce the concepts of information research strategies, information storage, and retrieval systems …
Intro to Coding a Microbit
In this lesson the students will be introduced to the website MakeCode with programing the microbit simulator. To start …
Intro To Coding a Microbit
Students will be introduced to block coding using the website makecode.org. They will code a virtual microbit by …
Intro to Coding- Unplugged
Directions for Coding- unplugged
Intro to Coding: Unplugged
This lesson will help students gain familiarity with algorithms and how to create a path on a coding mat. This will help …
Intro to Coding: Unplugged
Understanding Coding: How students use an algorithm in an unplugged lesson. Students maneuver an object from start to …
Introduction to Computer Science and SpeedGeeking 101
Part 1: Gauge student understanding of computer science and introduce basic CS vocabulary. Part 2: Teach students about …
Introduction to Micro:bits
Students will learn what micro:bits are and how they can be used. They will also learn how to code their own micro:bits. …
Introduction to the microbit
This lesson will teach 5th & 6th grade elementary students how to program and use a microbit. Learners will be able to …
Inventing & Problem Solving with the 3 R’s (Reduce/Reuse/Recycle)
Students will work collaboratively to respond to a text by using recycled materials to create an invention that will …
Is data for the birds?
Students will explore probability and coding by coding the Micro:bit to generate random responses similar to flipping a …
Is data for the Birds?
Students will program a Micro:bit and as a species counter, and to log the data that is collected. Then they will …
Is Data for the Birds?
Use the micro:bit as a step counter to measure and mark the planets' relative distances from the Sun.
Kindergarten Bee-bot Letter identification/sounds Activity
In this lesson kindergarten students practice identifying and matching uppercase and lowercase letters along with given …
Kindergarten Beebot Number Identification (1-10) Activity with Movement
Bee-bots are utilized collaboratively by students to problem solve while reinforcing the skill of identifying numbers …
Kindergarten Computer Scientists
Through six mini lessons, kindergarten students will be introduced to Computer Science. Beginning with a working …
Lesson Plan 2-First LEGO ® League “White Energy Journey”
Students will work independently to design a ‘driving base’ using the SPIKE PRIME LEGO sets. Upon completion of the base …
Library - Robotics for Students in the Functional Life Skills (FLS) Program
This lesson provides robotics opportunities in the library for students with complex needs in the Functional Life …
Magic 8 ball
Make your own magic 8 ball! Students will code a micro:bit in makecode.org to tell other's 'fortunes'.
Making a Pepper’s Ghost Illusion using Microbit Technology
This lesson is going to be a supplemental lesson to our OpenSciEd Light and Matter unit that we are implementing this …
Micro bit Block Programming - 'Customizing Displays'
This lesson focuses on the LED array and how to customize graphics plus LED intensity. Students will program in Block …
Micro Bit Block Programming: 'Hello World'
This lesson introduces the basic components of the microbit, a beginners program, and teaches how to download a program …
Micro-Pythag
This lesson will walk students through the process of writing a micro-bit program to solve basic math problems. It will …
Micro:bit Level Up
This lesson provides an introduction to micro:bits and 4 levels of activities to learn about the possibilities of the …
Micro:bit Step Counter
This lesson focusses on coding concept variable with and lesson from Code.Org. The students will program the micro:bit …
Micro:bit Temperature Reading
Students will program micro:bits to measure temperature readings in Celsius and then convert to Fahrenheit either using …
Micro:bits / Makerspace
The lesson is for coding with micro:bits. It is written broadly for implementation as an activity for a whole group of …
Micro:bits / Makerspace
The lesson is for coding with micro:bits. It is written broadly for implementation as an activity for a whole group of …
Micro:bits on the Fly with Lego Cars
Students will explore how sensors are used in our lives and what they could measure. Students will build a Lego car and …
Micro:bits: Happy Birthday
Turn your micro:bit into a music player. Code musical notes using simple commands. Listen to your program using …
Micro:bits: Sequencing
The students will use Micro:bit blocks to create the image of snow when shaken. This will be done with sequences, …
Microbial Computer
Students will play Conways Game of Life after studying microbial behavior. Students will use The game of life to …
Microbit Activity with Expressions and Solving Equations
Students will incorporate the use of microbits to help them understand how to utilize parentheses. This will help …
Microbit Basic Multiplication and Division
Students will create an online microbit “project” about basic multiplication and array’s. The project will focus on one …
Microbit Basics
This is an introductory lesson that I used with my 5th & 6th grade students. This lesson introduces students to basic …
Microbit compass
THIS A DRAFT-Student will program a microbit that locate magnetic north, south, east and west. They will create …
Microbit Escape Room Puzzle - Magnetic Alarms
In this project, you and a partner will create an alarm that will go off when a magnet is moved away from the microbit. …
MicroBit Guitar
Students will use a combination of block coding (Scratch) and physical computing (MicroBit) to create a cardboard …
MicroBit Guitars
Students will create a 'guitar' from cardboard, aluminum foil, and a micro:bit and explain how energy is converted from …
MicroBit Multiplication
In this lesson students will work on their multiplication math fact fluency and practice coding using a MicroBit. …
Microbit Music: Debugging
This lesson will provide students with the opportunity to debug computer code. Students will be provided with the …
Microbit programming
Creating a program for their microbit 'pets'. Their program must include noise, pictures and words/phrases
Microbit programming-Creating a Micropet
Students will create a micropet and then program it to perform various outcomes depending on what they do to it. …
Microbits Introduction
This lesson is used to introduce microbits to students. Students will be able to code with inclusion of sequences, …
Mindstorms and Hidden Figures
Students will design a robot to orbit the moon in conjunction with their ELA class reading the book Hidden Figures.
Modeling Plate Motions using Microbit Technology
This lesson is going to be a supplemental lesson to our OpenSciEd Plate Tectonics unit that we are implementing this …
Modeling the Phases of the Moon
In this lesson, students are introduced to computer science through the use of Micro:bits to create a model of the lunar …
Modeling the Solar System with a Micro:bit
Use the micro:bit to create a kinesthetic model of the solar system. Students will be given an example at the beginning …
Modeling the Solar System with a microbit
Use the micro:bit to create a kinesthetic model of the solar system. Students will be given an example at the beginning …
Morphology through Cyber Security
Students will identify and define words utilizing basic tenets of cyber security.
Moving the LED with Microbits
In this project, you and a partner will code a program that can make an LED move left, right, and up on the microbit …
Multiplication with MicroBits
This activity allows students to practice their multiplication fact fluency while also covering computer science …
Music is Life
Students will use coding to develop animation and sound for a music simulator. students will demonstrate locating and …
Nature art
This lesson is an introduction to computational thinking and the BBC micro:bit. Students learn how to create nature …
Nature Art: Merging Nature, Algorithms, and Programming in an inclusive environment
This lesson is an introduction to computational thinking and the BBC micro:bit. Students learn how to create nature …
Nested Loops
This lesson is for more advanced students wanting to code a Python program that uses nested loops. This is not block …
Nested Loops - Inner and Outer
This lesson is for more advanced students wanting to code a Python program that uses nested loops. This is not block …
Nursery Rhymes and Microbits
This lesson uses familiar nursery rhymes to introduce secondary students to the concepts of coding, sequencing, and …
Nursery Rhymes and Microbits Pt. 2
This lesson uses familiar nursery rhymes to introduce secondary students to the concepts of coding, sequencing, and …
Nursery Rhymes and Microbits Pt. 3
This will be the end of this mini unit, students will present to their classmates the nursery rhyme that they have coded …
Order of Operations MICRO: BIT Calculator
Students will learn how to solve expressions with order of operations Students will practice solving expressions using …
Ozobots- Race Tracks
Students will use the drawing paper, colored markers, and the various codes available to Ozobot to create a racetrack. …
Penguin Coding
The students had to use arrows to provide directions for the penguin to take in order to get to the fish without landing …
Penguin Coding
Write out the code using arrows to help the penguin get the fish and go to the igloo.
Penguin Lab
Students will construct an penguin home to prevent the phase change of an Ice-Cube Penguin. Students will code 2 …
Phase Change Lab (Temperature and Particle Movement)
The goal of this lesson is to recognize the relationship of thermal energy and temperature. As thermal energy of water …
Pixel Art Coordinates
Students use Google Sheets to create a drawing and plot the corresponding ordered pairs that they used in their …
Plains Indians Winter Count
Students will tell important events from their life using a Winter Counts calendar. They will use the given symbols from …
Plant Growth Experiment with Micro:bits
Students will plan an investigation into what plants need in order to grow. Students will measure the height of their …
Plant Growth Lab
Students will plan an investigation into what plants need in order to grow. Students will measure the height of their …
Power walkers
Students will program a mirco: bit to count steps while walking and then while power walking. They will compare the two …
Probably... Theoretical v Experimental Probability
Students will use pre-made coding in order to record experimental probability data and compare it to what they have …
Programming a Code-a-Pillar
This lesson introduces the beginning concepts of coding. Students will learn with a programmable caterpillar or …
Programming your friend on a path K-2 students will be programming Little Red Riding Hood to Grandmas House 3-5th grade students will be programming their friend to deliver their latest I-phone or game from manufacturing to delivery
Students will use arrows on a piece of graph paper to give directions to their classmates. They will guide their friends …
Pythagorean Microbit Challenge
In document
Radio Communicating with Microbits
In this project, you and a partner will code a program that is capable of sending a coded message to each other. Each of …
Radio Kindness
Sharing and receiving kindness is a good way to support your well-being and that of your friends. In this activity you …
Retelling a Story with Scratch Jr.
This lesson allows students to retell the major aspects of a children's book using Scratch Jr. Using their background …
Robotics for Students in the Functional Life Skills (FLS) Program
As the library exists to offer an inclusive space for everyone, this lesson is geared toward giving students with …
Scranimal Island (This lesson will span across the 3 lessons in the library.)
Students will listen to the poetry from the book Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky. Students will choose an animal and a …
Scratch Multi-Level Maze
Students will use Scratch to create a multi-level maze. Students will program a main sprite, obstacles and a goal, which …
Scratch Sort: Events & Loops
Students explore Scratch and recognize how the categories and blocks within the categories help students create projects …
Sea Creature Safety
• To discover more about the threats faced by sea turtles • To learn about efforts to help them • …
Secrets Told!
Kids love to talk in code so parents and teachers can't figure out what they are saying. Enter the world of emojis and …
See Ya Later, Alligator: Coding and Ratio Tabless
Students will work in pairs to build ratio tables defining a list of data for distance traveled by various animals over …
Sequencing = Storytelling
This lesson helps learners connect storytelling with simple coding through the study of the sequence of events. It …
Sequencing-Storytelling
This lesson, as adapted and written, is for middle school students in the library setting. Students will explore …
Shark Tank Activity (Problem Solving)
This is an unplugged activity where students will design an application for a cell phone or personal device to solve a …
Sight Word Bowling
Students will draw a sight word card and then program either a kibo or bee bot to knock down the matching bowling pin.
Sonic Pi: Midi Synthesizer
Most commercial music produced today involves the use of synthesized and sampled sounds. MIDI (musical instrument …
Sound Wave Basics with micro:bits
This lesson uses MakeCode and micro:bit to analyze sound waves. Students will learn how frequency and volume affect the …
Stepping through the Universe with the Micro:bit
Using Astronomical Units, students will program and use a Micro:bit to measure the AU distances to the scale of their …
Storm is Coming
Students are getting ready to make make observations about the weather for the next two weeks. To help with the …
Student Choice Mission
In this final project for the course, students team to Independently, scope the features of a piece of software,or …
Sunlight Sensor
Turn your micro:bit into a light sensor! Using the light level sensor feature of the micro:bit, students will program …
Surprise! We get to have new Pets!
This is an opportunity for students to learn more about coding through creating a micro:pet with a partner, It will …
Teaching a Robot About Handwashing
In this lesson, students will be teaching a robot about handwashing. They will be introduced to the vocabulary term …
Thanksgiving Day Parade
This lesson is a great one to do right before Thanksgiving. Students will read or listen to the book Balloons Over …
The Card Catalog: Computer of Yesteryear
This lesson will show students how computer coding is used to solve the problem of quickly accessing books using the …
The Hardware/Software Connection
Students will learn about how hardware needs software in order for it to do something. Students will create a program …
The Problem with Plastics
3rd grade learns about Jacques Cousteau and his conservation efforts to clean up the ocean. Plastic waste has become a …
There Was An Old Lady....in Sequence and Loops
This lesson uses the familiar nursery rhyme and song 'There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly' to introduce primary …
Think Like a Hacker
Students will pretend they are in charge of cybersecurity for a app. Their job it to retain users and increase the …
Transitioning
The students will work together to create an algorithm to solve the problem of how we transition. Steps will be created …
Transitioning
The teacher will present a problem to the class, such as 'How do you get dressed in the morning?' Discuss that we will …
Trickster Tales
Students learn about trickster tales in different cultures, then learn about how algorithms tell a story using …
Understanding Pseudocode
In this lesson, students explore the methods of writing pseudocode to complex problems. Writing pseudocode is a great …
Unplugged Coding
To start students will learn to code with a desk of cards and manipulatives. Students will have jobs such as the …
Using Microbits to help Students to Visualize the Stages of Mitosis
Using Microbits to help students visualize the stages of Mitosis lesson can be used after the concept of Mitosis has …
Using Microbits to Make a Magic Button
Create a magic trick you can perform to impress your friends. When you move the sticky labels on your micro:bit’s A and …
Using Microbits to measure light level of sunlight for optimal plant growth
Students will investigate and design an experiment that explores the natural world using microprocessors. They will …
Variables
This lesson introduces the use of variables to store data or the results of mathematical operations. Students will …
Virtual Pet
Students will create a virtual pet using micro:bits and then collect data for their pet as it interacts with its …
Volcano Animation
Students use flowcharts and repetition to explore building a volcanic eruption on a Micro:Bit.
Volcano interactions with Earth's Spheres
In this lesson students will use the microbit to develop volcanic eruptions.
What are Rainbows?
When it rains, it causes a phenomenon known as a rainbow. The rainbow is a simple construction because it only uses …
What are the chances?
Program and use a Micro:bit 'Coin Flipper' to illustrate probability.
What is Coding
This lesson is meant to introduce what coding is to a younger age group. Students will learn what it means to program or …
What to do with the stuff I have
Students are given CONNEX or VEX pieces from a build kit and are given a mission. As a team they will create an artifact …
WonderBots
We are going to start by introducing the WonderBots to the children. I will introduce them to the program and the IPad …