Mrs. Hazelwood’s 4th-grade class at Accident Elementary School celebrated National CSEd Week by coding a special Holiday Greeting. The activity involved learning how to code music in Scratch – a popular coding app for elementary school students. Students gained valuable experience using computational thinking skills, such as developing an algorithm and abstraction, by applying various musical instruments through Scratch to play their “algorithm.” The final product was a song entitled “Let it Snow!” Please view their holiday Greeting using this link. This project was completed with Garrett County’s High School Robotics team, GaCo, and the Digital Promise Computational Thinking (CT) Pathways initiative.
Also, as part of National Computer Science Education (CSEd) week, high school computer science students kicked off an initiative where they will be coding apps in Scratch that elementary school students can use to develop their math skills. The computer science students at Northern and Southern high schools hope to have links to their Scratch apps by March 2025, when more details will be announced.
Friendsville Elementary kindergarten students James Grubb, Beau DeValk, and River Davis try out a Scratch app created by Destin Moon. Destin is a senior who studies Computer Science at Southern Garrett High School. All the apps that Garrett County’s Computer Science students create are standards-based. This particular app helps develop spatial awareness and reasoning skills.