Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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The students I teach come from various environments. They are at all socioeconomic levels and have vast experiences. Some have never even been to the Catawba River down the road from where they live while others have had more privileges; however, ALL students deserve the equity to experience what it is like to think like a computer scientist.
Code.org is a proven organization that engages students with free curriculum and experiences such as Hour of Code. While the curriculum is free, the materials are not. One of the activities they get to complete that helps them with their computer science skills is The Circuit Playground. It is AMAZING!! Code.org has a middle school curriculum called Discoveries. In unit six, they would complete the Circuit Board Playground. The activities are designed to be done in pairs. Each pair of students would need one board to share. In a class of thirty, that would be fifteen boards. Code.org's site does a great job of expounding upon the activity:
"Based on the popular Arduino platform, the Circuit Playground Classic enables students to get up and running quickly with physical computing without worrying about many of the traditional barriers to entry. Developed by our friends at Adafruit, the Circuit Playground is the core tool used in CS Discoveries Unit 6, Physical Computing." Having these circuit boards would afford my students with a richer more authentic real-world experience.
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The students I teach come from various environments. They are at all socioeconomic levels and have vast experiences. Some have never even been to the Catawba River down the road from where they live while others have had more privileges; however, ALL students deserve the equity to experience what it is like to think like a computer scientist.
Code.org is a proven organization that engages students with free curriculum and experiences such as Hour of Code. While the curriculum is free, the materials are not. One of the activities they get to complete that helps them with their computer science skills is The Circuit Playground. It is AMAZING!! Code.org has a middle school curriculum called Discoveries. In unit six, they would complete the Circuit Board Playground. The activities are designed to be done in pairs. Each pair of students would need one board to share. In a class of thirty, that would be fifteen boards. Code.org's site does a great job of expounding upon the activity:
"Based on the popular Arduino platform, the Circuit Playground Classic enables students to get up and running quickly with physical computing without worrying about many of the traditional barriers to entry. Developed by our friends at Adafruit, the Circuit Playground is the core tool used in CS Discoveries Unit 6, Physical Computing." Having these circuit boards would afford my students with a richer more authentic real-world experience.