On the bench · not built yet

Inventors Hall

Students walk an inventors' hall and place each exhibit on a timeline (a punch-card loom, an early compiler, a talking calculator, a game cartridge), reading what the old way could not do, why people built the new one and whose ideas were left out.

Play style: Timeline
Module: Computing Inventions and Inventors: How computing changed daily life, why people built it, and whose ideas were included
Grade: Grades 3-5 · Computer Science
Standards: E3-SOC-HI-16 E3-SOC-HU-18 E4-SOC-HI-16 E4-SOC-ET-17 E5-SOC-HI-16

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Play Star Catch while its program runs beside it one highlighted line at a time. Every variable is a labeled box: catch a star and watch a new value fly into score, take a rock and lives drops, let ten seconds pass and speed goes up, while goal never moves.

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Traffic Light Coder

Program traffic lights with if-then rules so cars and walkers stay safe.

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Follow a message from your device to a friend's across the internet; protect personal info along the way.