Pi Day is Coming!
Pi Day (March 14th or 3.14) is next week. If you’re looking for some Pi Day activities to do or some videos to share about pi, take a look at this list of resources that I’ve compiled over the years. Numberphile has a few good videos about pi and Pi Day. Pi with real pies is a […]
Mozilla Is Shutting Down X-Ray Goggles
Mozilla’s X-Ray Goggle’s is a service that I’ve been promoting for years as way to help students understand how HTML works. Students can use it to view and change the HTML behind almost any webpage that they find. The changes happen as a local copy of the page that students could then share with their […]
Pi Day Programming Lessons
Tynker is a service that offers programming lessons for elementary school and middle school students. I published a full overview of the service a couple of days ago. You can read that overview here. For Pi Day Tynker is offering a free lesson plan in which students practice their programming skills by making art based […]
Tynker Offers a Good Way to Introduce Students to Programming
Tynker is a service that provides activities to help students developing coding skills. I first tried Tynker years ago and have watched it grow from a simple app to a full-blown coding curriculum for elementary and middle school use. The Tynker coding environment makes learning to code fun and immediately accessible to students in elementary […]