New coding and robotics course for grades two through five is a fun, easy way to set young students on the path to STEM mastery
DERRY, N.H. (PRWEB) MAY 05, 2020
CoderZ has launched CoderZ Adventure, a new coding and robotics course for elementary school students in grades two through five. The course contains activities and assignments, including more than 50 gamified “missions” with easy-to-follow walkthroughs and tips. It is designed to empower even teachers who are coding novices so that they can include a more comprehensive STEM foundation in their students’ early knowledge base.
CoderZ Adventure introduces students to the world of STEM and robotics through an exciting journey of adventures in the CoderZ world. Students will learn how to program their virtual robot to navigate in CoderZ Frozen Island, the Lost City, Candy Town and other stimulating locations while practicing basic math, geometry and more.
Students work their way through seven adventures covering multiple topics:
1. Adventure Peak introduces basic navigation such as driving and turning using Drive and Turn blocks.
2. Frozen Island practices basic arithmetic practice: addition, subtraction and division.
3. The Lost City covers how to use the program’s Explore Mode feature to measure distances, the Wait block and Repeat Loops
4. Crystal Crater covers basic geometry exercises: angles and parallel lines. Students also practice Repeat Loops.
5. Candy Town delves into more geometry: the concept of the radius of a circle. Students also continue practicing Repeat Loops.
6. Sketch It is a practice exercise during which students draw on a virtual sketchpad using all the skills learned previously.
7. The Milky Way uses the Explore Mode feature to measure angles and radii. Students plan the optimal route to complete a mission as quickly and efficiently as possible, given a time limit.
Each session contains a series of related missions that enable students to learn to code with the virtual robot, apply their math skills and practice problem solving.
CoderZ Adventure is already proving popular with teachers and their students. One of the program’s fans is Christy Gonzales who teaches a robotics class at Pinecrest Glades Academy in Florida. “They’re loving the game!” she said. She challenges each student to try to find the solution first. “I incentivize them to resolve the challenge as efficiently as possible,” she explained. “Kids LOVE a race.”
“It’s great to see the CoderZ Team bookend the well-known middle school Cyber Robotics 101 and 102 packages expanding to a complete pedagogical solution with CoderZ Adventure as an incredible elementary school solution and text-based Python Gym for secondary school students,” said Trevor Pope, CoderZ Success Manager at CoderZ. “Programming virtual robots with CoderZ has an educational, engaging, competitive, fun and positive impact for all students in grades 2-12.”
For more information on CoderZ Adventure, visit https://gocoderz.com/coderz-adventure/.
About CoderZ
CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. Developed for students in grades 2 and above, the gamified STEM solution allows student to work at their own pace, easily programming real and virtual robots from anywhere in the world. The platform enables students to acquire computational thinking, problem solving and creativity skills, together with coding and STEM learning, all via a flexible and scalable virtual solution. For more information go to http://www.gocoderz.com.
It’s great to see the CoderZ Team bookend the well-known middle school Cyber Robotics 101 and 102 packages expanding to a complete pedagogical solution with CoderZ Adventure as an incredible elementary school solution and text-based Python Gym for secondary school students.
