I started my kids at a young age on a physical mouse robot they had to instruct to navigate a maze. Scratch JR was the next step. I always found a way to keep it fun. Around age 8 I gave my daughter basic lessons in Scratch. Adding in the MakeyMakey was a lot of fun as it adds a physical component.
In sixth grade I introduced microbit to her class with the MS MakeCode block coding. I had them build their own robots from a pile of legos and mini servo motors. Each lesson taught them one small part they could use towards their final challenge to build a car they could navigate a maze with in the shortest time. They were paired up in teams of two. They learned a lot about real world engineering.
I am playing around with the idea of some LLM projects but so far I have focused on a fun project based approach.
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I started my kids at a young age on a physical mouse robot they had to instruct to navigate a maze. Scratch JR was the next step. I always found a way to keep it fun. Around age 8 I gave my daughter basic lessons in Scratch. Adding in the MakeyMakey was a lot of fun as it adds a physical component.
In sixth grade I introduced microbit to her class with the MS MakeCode block coding. I had them build their own robots from a pile of legos and mini servo motors. Each lesson taught them one small part they could use towards their final challenge to build a car they could navigate a maze with in the shortest time. They were paired up in teams of two. They learned a lot about real world engineering.
I am playing around with the idea of some LLM projects but so far I have focused on a fun project based approach.