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  • Mighty Girl Coders Lesson Plans

    A 12-lesson program to empower girls to learn coding and build a website from nothing!
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    Lesson plans & activities
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  • Student Information Session Presentation

    A slide deck used with students to let them know about the afterschool coding club including what they will learn and how those skills are relevant to the jobs of the future.
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    Youth recruitment
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  • FarmBot Web App How To

    Youth can learn about farming and coding as they use the app to control a FarmBot as it plants, waters, and weeds a raised bed garden plot that they can then design and implement in the community!
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  • 20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius

    Written by two school librarians, this book provides ideas for physical builds and coding, for new and reluctant coders, that are easily achieved by middle school and high school aged youth.
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    Books & magazines, Lesson plans & activities
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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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    Professional development, Tutorial, Website
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  • Ready to Code library prioritizes community engagement

    Susan P. Baier, Director of McCracken County Public Library, writes about community engagement as a key focus of Ready to Code and how her library made this a priority as they designed and facilitated coding classes for youth. Increased engagement leads to increased understanding and support for the project and achieves buy-in from staff, library administration and the community as a whole.
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    Ready to Code examples
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  • Binary Bracelets Activity

    Binary Bracelets is a fun activity for younger teens that teaches them how to make bracelets using binary code. Participants are introduced to the concept of binary code and then they participate in a hands on activity to help them understand this concept of computational thinking.
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  • NextLevel! Coders Club Pre & Post Surveys

    These pre-and post- surveys for a coding club program give youth the chance to consider their knowledge and skill in coding and reflect on their interest in coding and careers in computer science.
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    Program evaluation & assessment
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  • Coding Music with Scratch Lesson Plans

    Five step-by-step lesson plans focusing on connecting youth interest in music to Scratch activities. Activities include creating a DJ mix, writing a song, and developing an animated dance routine.
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    Lesson plans & activities
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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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