In February 2020, I presented to a group of fellow educators from across British Columbia sharing techniques and lessons to bring robotics and coding into their classrooms.

Beginning in Grade 3, I teach students the basic principles of JavaScript coding using various block-based programming software. In this presentation, I made use of the BBC micro:bit and Ink Smith’s K8 robot to build a program in MakeCode. Each programmer was successful and everyone’s robot followed the path that we laid out for them.

Please review the presentation that is attached and never hesitate to contact me if you would like to plan something similar in your classroom.