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CS First

Free, easy-to-use activities and curriculum introduce students ages 9-14 to computer science through themed projects that attract students with varied interests. Instructional videos guide students through each activity, so no coding experience is needed to teach!

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Music & Sound (Libraries Rock!) Lesson Plan

This program is based on Google’s CS First Music & Sound club curriculum and has been customized by Homer (AK) Public Library for a week-long coding camp to introduced kids ages 8-11 to basic computer science concepts while they create digital music, sound and video. Library staff worked with a music educator to deliver the program content.

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“An Unusual Discovery” Hour of Code Activity

Two characters meet in a world and discover a surprising object. What happens next? It’s all up to students, who have the opportunity to use their imagination and creativity to code their own story.

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Google Computational Thinking for Educators

This self-paced course helps educators learn about computational thinking and how it can be integrated into a variety of subject areas. Divided into five units, the course provides real world examples as well as supplemental readings to support your learning.

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Library snags grant to boost computer skills for youth

This Belgrade News (Montana) article describes how Belgrade Community Library supports youth to develop and showcase games through creativity and problem solving with help from peers and mentors.

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Homer library shrinks the digital divide

This local news story shares Ready to Code's vision and programming from Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska.

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Giggles? Robots? Grandmothers? You may be at a Girls Code course

This local news story shares a Ready to Code program for girls at Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska.

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Computer Science Course On South Coast Teaches Kids Skills To Become Future Computer Programmers

This local news story shares a Ready to Code program at Santa Barbara Public LIbrary in Santa Barbara, California.

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Recruiting and supporting community volunteers to lead youth computational thinking activities at the library

Limited available staff is a reality for most libraries, resulting in very real challenges for starting new programs in new content areas. When the Normal (IL) Public Library (NPL) began planning computational thinking (CT) activities we asked ourselves, What do you do to meet your community need when your in-house toolkit lacks necessary resources like computer science (CS) & CT knowledge, available staff, and time?

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Strategies, Ready to Code examples

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Making the case to your community that libraries are Ready to Code

Workforce development conversations and concerns about the readiness of today’s students for tomorrow’s IT field often focus on schools. Libraries, however, can play a vital role in connecting youth to computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) opportunities and connections for learning across time and place. How can libraries establish their role as an anchor and broker in the community for youth CT learning?

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Ready to Code libraries in Rochester team up, offer coding education to underserved youth

How can libraries increase access to coding education, especially for potential patrons who were previously underserved by library programs? Julianne Wise, Rochester International Academy (RIA) librarian, and Sarah Ryan, Montessori Academy librarian, teamed up to develop strategies that address this question.

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Leveraging existing library programs and family structures for early literacy to introduce computational thinking

While families with preschoolers have established times they visit the library, for example for weekly story hour, it is challenging to bring in these families for other programming. This is particularly true for topic areas that may be unfamiliar or unrecognized as connected to valuable preschool and early education literacies. How can we engage preschool learners and their families in quality computational thinking (CT)activities appropriate for that age group?

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Ready to Code library promotes computational thinking with FarmBot app

This 20-minute slide presentation details how the Independence (Kan.) Public Library worked with youth to gain computational thinking skills through Scratch, Python and the FarmBot app, which they used to build their own FarmBot for the library garden.

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Letting go of traditional classroom models to engage students in learning

Extra-curricular learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are critical for young learners, often influencing future learning pathways. However, it is difficult to retain youth interest and engagement in voluntary programming, especially in middle and high school years when there is more choice and competing uses of time. How can I keep youth engaged?

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