Last week, all third through fifth grade students participated in the Hour of Code while in the computer lab during Technology. This was our second year to participate. (Click here to see the post from last year’s event). Students chose from two activities: the Angry Bird platform of the Frozen platform. Each activity had 20 stages, or challenges, interspersed with motivational and instructional videos. At the end of the 20 stages, students could print out a personalized certificate.

The event was scheduled to run during Computer Science Education Week, December 8-12. We held our event a week earlier due to interruptions in our enhancement schedule that week. As last year, EVERY STUDENT SHOWED 100 PERCENT ENGAGEMENT! As you can see from the video below, the elements of critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration were natural outcomes.