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Hidden Figures Black History Month Coding Activity

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Used this resource for my Kindergarten class it was a little above their thinking but we still enjoyed working on it.
This was a fun way to introduce coding and celebrate Black History Month. Thank you for a great product!
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Integrate coding in your classroom with an Unplugged Hidden Figures Coding STEM Activity!

Hidden Figures Coding Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Black History Month and Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be a scientist regardless of race or gender.

Students begin the activity by reading about the Hidden Figures. We included our own reading passage, and you can also use Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.

Students work together to create different codes to direct the astronauts to the moon. Every activity and solution is unique as students create their own board and code by moving the start point, obstacles, and end points on their coding sheets.

After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.

This activity is completely unplugged, and no robots are required. Perfect activity for Hour of Code.

Material List:

  • Scissors
  • Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly (Recommended)

Includes:

  • Teacher Instructions
  • Student Instructions
  • Student Coding to the Moon Activity
  • Student Reflection Sheet
  • Hidden Figures Reading PassageTpT Digital Version for Distance Learning with Google Classroom

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20 pages
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Teaching Duration
1 hour
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With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

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