Free Coding Resources | Nathan Richards

Lessons

Follow along with our comprehensive lesson plan filled with step-by-step activities and opportunities to display evidence of learning.

Teach students to learn commands by incorporating IF, THEN, AND, ELSE algorithms. Customise each page to suit your learners.

Lessons

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Minecraft World

Use your coding card to build new ideas and problem-solve issues in student's algorithms.

Just like a training centre, students go through a series of

step-by-step activities.

A video tutorial supports each activity whilst students learn as they do. Using their coding cards will help them to problem-solve issues in their algorithms. The lesson plan supports each activity, and students can apply what they have learnt.

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Coding Card Activities

The coding cards are linked throughout the entire program. To start off you may like to use the unplugged activities made available when you purchase the cards to guide your students through learning about using commands as algorithms.

There are also opportunities for students to include images of different algorithms to visually display their understanding. Encourage your students to think and display their algorithms with the cards before moving into the game. You could also have students use their cards to create algorithms and then challenge other students to test. It is important that students move towards writing the algorithms to the specific context of their game.

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Summary Lessons

These activities are excellent ways to check for understanding. They are best delivered to the entire class or in small groups. We have also provided video versions that you can play for your class.

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Watch & Play Videos

These videos help students to recognise the different statements and algorithms they have been learning. They work as an excellent starter or exit ticket. Simply click and play.

Beginners - Click to Watch

Intermediate - Click to Watch

Advanced - Click to Watch

CODE CRAFTER

Code Crafters is an unplugged card game designed to challenge your knowledge of Minecraft. This game leverages slash commands and algorithms in a fun and interactive way. This game is perfect when playing with friends and family.

For students participating in Code Crafter, teachers can rest assured that students enhance their computational thinking skills and develop a strong foundation in command-based coding.

Code Crafter is an excellent starter or earlier finisher activity students love to play.

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Video Lessons

Your students have access to all of these videos throughout our lesson; however, we thought you might appreciate having them all in one location.

Triggers - Click to Watch

Beginners - Click to Watch

Block Coding - Click to Watch

Knowledge Checks

These knowledge checks available via Microsoft Forms are an amazing way to see how your students are progressing.

Once you click the download button, select the duplicate it button to store your own copy you can then share it with your students.