{"id":1344,"date":"2014-07-30T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T01:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2014-08-02T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T18:23:39","slug":"elementary-school-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2014\/07\/elementary-school-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary school programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An embedded.fm listener (Mike) is\u00a0working on starting a program for a local elementary school that introduces Engineering with a main focus on programming and electronics. He wanted to know if I had any suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>For programming for almost any age, <a title=\"Scratch\" href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scratch<\/a> is awesome. It can be web based or on a Raspberry Pi. It is very well design to introduce programming concepts (and it is fun to make little movies of avatars). I&#8217;ve used it for 2nd graders (and 11th graders).<\/p>\n<p>For 3rd-6th grade, Minecraft is a good way to get some kids interested in <a title=\"Minecraft scripting\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/walterhiggins\/ScriptCraft\/blob\/master\/docs\/YoungPersonsGuideToProgrammingMinecraft.md\" target=\"_blank\">programming<\/a>, they end up wanting to run their own servers and create worlds. (Though it tends to be a bit boy-centric. My godsons have adored it since they were in 2nd and 4th grade (now they are 5th and 7th)).<\/p>\n<p>For electronics, the <a title=\"LightUp electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lightup.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">LightUp<\/a> system is pretty intuitive and very neat to play with. They have kindergarten stories. The kits are a bit expensive and they are only from <a title=\"MakerShed LightUp kit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makershed.com\/products\/lightup-mini-kit?Click=172984\" target=\"_blank\">MakerShed<\/a> (big kits aren&#8217;t available yet).<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I have a friend who picks up <a title=\"Snap Circuits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snapcircuits.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snap Circuits<\/a> at garages sales. His 5 year old is building amazing things (making mods on the existing plans already!). I haven&#8217;t played with those but am amused by the pics I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>So what would you suggest?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An embedded.fm listener (Mike) is\u00a0working on starting a program for a local elementary school that introduces Engineering with a main focus on programming and electronics. He wanted to know if I had any suggestions. For programming for almost any age, Scratch is awesome. It can be web based or on a Raspberry Pi. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,57],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}