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Code for Life offers FREE games and resources to help teach computing to secondary students and beyond. We have a suite of lesson plans, editable slides, videos, assessment sheets and worksheets that can be used alongside our two games suitable for KS1-4. Our resources are designed for teachers including those that don’t have a background in Computer Science, and they are aligned to the UK Curriculum.

The first game, Rapid Router gradually scaffolds from block-based coding to programming in Python through the use of a split screen displaying the equivalent Python. This shows the students how the computer reads the blocks, and what they will need to use, once the blocks are taken away further in the levels. Students are presented with both an algorithm and route score to ensure they really work at the efficiency of their solutions.

After completing the Python levels in Rapid Router, there is our second game, Kurono. This is a multiplayer game where students control their avatars in the same game environment using Python commands. We have 4 worksheets and more in the pipeline.

We will also be sharing our Raspberry Pi IDE based worksheets that are at Beta stage and would welcome feedback from teachers and students, should you wish to sign up to trial it.

This workshop will be an opportunity to see the tools in action and ask questions about how it could fit in with your teaching.