The Science Experiments lessons are geared for students in middle school and early high school grades. The lessons are designed help the student gain a greater understanding of the forces and behavior of the physical world. This is done using methods of observation, measurement, and data analysis. By incorporating the micro:bit in the experiments, the lessons are a great way to teach both science and computing in the same activity.

These lessons guide the student in hands-on, practical measurement activities along with using the micro:bit to control and record data for the experiments. Each lesson provides an overview of the activity, outlines expected results, explains the setup of the experiment, and the gives a coding activity to measure and collect the data.

This guide is a collection of ideas, strategies, and activities for an introductory creative computing experience using the Scratch programming language. The activities are designed to support familiarity and increasing fluency with computational creativity and computational thinking. In particular, the activities encourage exploration of key computational thinking concepts (sequence, loops, parallelism, events, conditionals, operators, data) and key computational thinking practices (experimenting and iterating, testing and debugging, reusing and remixing, abstracting and modularizing). Learn more about computational thinking – what it is and how to assess its development in learners – from resources in the appendix or by visiting http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ct

This is a computer science lesson plan created by educators in the South Sanpete School District. Within this lesson, students will be programming a Sphero to reach the correct coordinates on a coordinate plane. The lesson is designed for fifth grade and includes modifications for grades 3-4.

This is a computer science lesson plan that utilizes Sphero robots. I was created by educators in the South Sanpete School District. Students will be able to program their sphero to travel through a maze. The lesson is designed for fourth grade and includes modifications for grades 1-5.

On this episode of UEN PDTV, coding extends to elementary schools in Juab County. Michael talks to Heather Westring, a computer lab tech, and Krystle Bassett, innovation specialist, who have both seen how early exposure to coding has helped students become independent and engaged at all levels.

This curriculum was to build a 7-week CS curriculum for the Utah Valley University Pre-freshman Engineering Program (UVU PREP) for the summer of 2018 that encompasses more emerging technologies, high-demand programming languages, and student-centered pedagogy to help develop students' interest in CS. The implementation and evaluation of the lessons that were created suggest that a more inquiry-based approach with the support of robotic hardware could be an effective way to increase student interest in CS and help alleviate workforce shortages and invite more diversity to the field.