Tynker+Showcases

Fifth grade students have been learning to program and code using Tynker, a free to use, block based coding site. The students spent eight class sessions learning how to add actors, change scenes, add sound, make actors say something, use hide and show blocks, and how to make actors move. They learned that programming is looking at a completed puzzle, then taking it apart into it's pieces, then putting those pieces together, making them connect in just the right way. The students learned problem-solving, logic, perseverance, persistence, and how to build something block by block. The work that they did in the first eight sessions was all in preparation for the Social Studies Let's Go Traveling laurel, where they would take their audience through the different ancient civilizations that they learned about this year. The students spent approximately another six sessions gathering their ingredients (the content and the images) and putting them together in the project. Each civilization became a scene, and the artifacts became the actors. Additionally, the students practiced good digital citizenship by using and citing images that were public domain creative commons. They found their images from sites like Pixabay, Wikimedia Commons, and WpClipart. Using the skills they learned, they created these amazing presentations for you. We hope you enjoy learning about these civilizations.

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