Week of Code

 

This week the ISB joined 5 million students around the world in celebrating Computer Science Education Week by taking part in their Hour of Code initiative.  Hour of Code promotes students learning coding basics in fun ways for 1 hour during the past week.  Why learn coding? Computer coding and programming are a skill necessary to creating new technologies, to innovation in our increasingly technological world, and are the basis of being able to work in the 1.4 million computing ...

Let's Go Places!
3rd grade furthered their work, with the How the World Works unit, in the Library by using Google Earth.  Students were asked to "go" different places on earth and explore the landforms found there.  As they worked, exclamations of, "I'm in Sweden!," "I'm at the South Sea!," "Where are you? I'm on top of Mount Everest!," or "Help, I'm lost in the hills of Ohio!" were heard.