Fun with coding

Escola Básica Integrada Francisco Ferreira Drummond

Open in-person activity

susana.cf.martins@edu.azores.gov.pt

Portuguese

Rua Padre Coelho de Sousa, 9700, Vila de São Sebastião, Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha de Terceira, PRT

As part of the eTwinning project “ESL Connecting People”, we prepared coding activities on the topic of PEACE.

Objectives: 

- students learn simple coding

- students decipher the codes

- students acquire basic programming skills

- students know how to use the bee bot

- students cooperate with each other

Activity 1: Color by number

Each student gets a sheet with a picture with numbers on it. Each number corresponds to a specific color according to the color coding on the legend. Students have to color each box with the appropriate color to reveal the image in the picture.

Activity 2: Code breaker

Students have to decipher the codes by matching the pictures with the corresponding letters. They get 5 words related to our topic.

Activity 3: Bee Bot challenge

We created a chain of schools. Each school challenge the next ine to find the hidden peaceful messages by using the coding route.  Note: we created images with peaceful messages in the privius task. Link:  https://www.canva.com/design/DAGbVI397tE/VDwxbvskHwSRp5RiofjL5g/view?utm_content=DAGbVI397tE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h1082ced5b7 

According to the order of their team, the students coded a route on a 4x6 grid. 

The first team marked the start on the grid and sent it to the next team along with a picture and a path from the arrows. This team used the bee bot to decode the path and find the spot where the picture with the peaceful message was hidden. Then they sent their challenge to the next team. So at the end of the chain, each team decoded the challenge and put together their own challenge.

Link with the results: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGbgoQkCc8/qjh2VTuZm4Ug_YIkPMb19A/view?utm_content=DAGbgoQkCc8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h8af0ee927c 

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