Dylan Ryder

Prototype Makey Makey, a simple invention kit for the classroom that helps students turn everyday items into keyboard buttons, to bring Scratch programming projects into the real world and engage your students.

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Use the framework “just right” to encourage students to take on challenges and create projects at their skill level.

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Have students design time counters to reinforce place value and lists.

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Have students try to solve problems in their everyday environments to inspire their creativity.

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Compare variables to gym scoreboards to help students understand them and how they can be used in a game.

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Ask students if the games they are designing are games they’d want to buy to keep students making progress toward your learning goals for them.

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Sequence your curriculum using ideas you and your students come up with while brainstorming to keep your course aligned with your students’ skills and interests.

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Break necessary skills for students down to a meaningful difficulty level to motivate students designing games.

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Organize curriculum around building a one-level mini-game to introduce elementary school students to introductory computer science.

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Have students design projects based on content from their other courses, and have them brainstorm how the code they write might be useful in a variety of fields. This broadens their understanding of CS’s many applications.

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