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Evaluating Websites

April Fools Day would be a fun day to teach students how to evaluate websites for credibility.
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Pi Day Celebrations?

Did anyone else celebrate Pi Day this year? I usually encourage my students to make parody songs. So this year, I joined in. Here's my parody of 7 Years by Lukas Graham: 7 Lines of Code.
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Twosday Binary Fun

This Twosday (2/22/22) could be a fun day to teach students about binary numbers (base 2)! One of my favorite elementary binary activities is binary bracelets from Code.org.
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Teaching Flowcharts?

Does anyone here teach flowcharts to elementary students? I recently had this thought that flowcharts could be a great way to introduce sequencing, selection, and iteration (the building blocks of an algorithm) to elementary students.