EU Code Week - Birthday's Challenges

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Maria Tsapara and Katerina SpitsaLeading Teachers in Greece

Happy birthday Code Week

Code Week 4all code: cw22-ZNGSL and Tags: GR-Tsapara-888, GR-Spitsa-456

Birthday challenges

Take part in one or more Birthday Challenges.1. Choose your favourite Birthday Challenge2. Go to https://codeweek.eu/3. Add the activity4.Do not forget to be a part in our alliance, by using the Code Week 4all code 5. Ιmplement it in your classroom with your students6. Share your activity in the padlet

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

https://padlet.com/codeitlocal/wn1jlzuypcpi8roa

All the participants can upload their Birthday Challenges in the padlet ...

The padlet

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Code your birthdaycard

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

1st - Challenge

Code your birthdaycard

Students create a birthday card or a digital birthday card for the 10th anniversary of EU Code Week.You can use the web 2.0 tool Genially, canvas etc, in order to create a digital Birthday Card.Create with your students your secret code letter values. You can use symbols, numbers, colors, lines.

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Write your "birthday wishes" and then encode your message by using your secret code letter values

Code your birthdaycard

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Our digital birthday card

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Happy Birthday Dance

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

2nd Challenge

On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the European Code Week, create a choreography with your students, by using the song "Happy Birthday". This activity does not require any special equipment, as it is an unplugged one. Discuss with your students about your choreography and make your own dancing movements. Make flashcards of them and mix them in order to create your dance.

Happy birthday dance

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

"Decode" the choreography by "reading" the cards and dancing them in the same order you combined them. On a worksheet, you can replace the images of your movement with shapes / colors / lines / arrows and create the code of your choreography. Videos and photos of the dance will be uploaded on the collaborative padlet with its code of figures. The teams that will participate, can 'read' each other's code and exchange choreographies.

Happy birthday dance

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

happy birthday plasticine cake

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

3rd - Challenge

Let's celebrate Code Week's 10th birthday! Let's create a plasticine cake and exchange each other's recipes!

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

• Create your own recipe (you can write it down, draw it or take photos of it)
• Follow it step by step
• Make the cake

• Share your recipe with us!

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Example: Our cake

Choose a pattern and place one coloured pie on top of the othereg. 1st pink, 2nd green, 3rd blue

Press them so as to create small pies

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

Choose 3 colours of plasticine and make 2 round balls of each one

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Finally, you can add a candle or 10 of them!

With the green pie create some small balls and place half of them around the bottom of the cake and the rest on top of it

Step 6

Step 5

Step 4

Add the 2nd pink pie on top and then the 2nd blue

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Help ally to make a birthday cake

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

4th - Challenge

Print the cards

Help ALLY the EU Code Week’s virtual assistant to make a birthday cake. This activity can be done with or without a robotics kit. The teacher draws the grid on the floor with classroom materials (paper tape, chalk, newspapers) or in a carton (for the robotic kit). The children are divided into small groups. One child of the team decides on the beginning and the end of the route & placed the card of ALLY in the beginning and the cake in the end. If you use a robotic kit you can use beebot to transfer ALLY.

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Print the arrows

Print the beebot cards

By using a robotic kit

Unplugged Activity

Then the cards of the ingredients were placed on the grid. The main goal is to help Ally to gather all the ingredients in order to make a Birthday Cake for the 10th Anniversary of EU Code Week. The first team will place the cards (ingredients). The second team will plan the route (by using direction arrows), the third team will program ALLY (beebot)/or the kid Robot. Clearly teams can have other roles. They can also change roles during the activity.

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

happy birthday song

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

5th - Challenge

Here is our own version https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/4955446563831808

Visit the following site https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker , choose your instruments, follow the pattern below and create your birthday song remake. You can change the tempo or add some drums as well

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

EU Code Week - Birthday Challenges

Thank you for your participationDo not forgetCoding bring us together!!!!

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