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Cedar  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Encouraging play in classrooms

I'm familiar with Scratch and have seen a lot of material put out for it, though it seems there's a dozen that are visually similar such as Microsoft Blocks and Snap! -- that may be because they are all based off of the same codebase, so really there's a lot of material that may also be applicable there. The Lego Mindstorms stuff I would like to play with but there's no chance I can get my hands on a kit until September and then it may not be feasible to use in the school I will be placed in. I would love to do a project with the students where they build different components of one system, the end result being a physical LEGO representation tied into a Minecraft game, perhaps using other kit like the micro:bit or a raspberry pi to add other components that the Mindstorms block can't handle.

I meant it as a general question, I am definitely interested in what other subjects are doing as there's always ideas I won't have come across and I would definitely like to explore intra-subject activities and projects. One of the sites I posted about recently in #microbit has design & technology resources that I think would be great additions to what I can teach; that's the benefit of computer science... it relates to everything :)