First  we start with little interactive activities online that help use use our critical thinking skills.

Program your own games

 2nd Grade

Fantastic Contraption and Fantastic Contraption 2 are online games which teach a user some fundamental programming lessons.

• We learn  that there are more than one solutions to the problem.
• If you make a mistake you can go back to the drawing board and find where you did make a mistake. This is similar to programming where you have to find errors in your program.  
• Plus they are down right fun! 

Online lightbot- Hour of Code

http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html 

3rd Grade 

In third Grade we   will get more experience with simple languages and learn what code is and what it does. 

First we need to learn what Code is and does'''

Hello Code (societygames[DOT]com/codealong/) teaches the basics of code (ActionScript 3.0) and the fundamentals of good programming through interactive missions, which can be solved by codes. Just try it out. As the author said:"It is free! If you're not satisfied, money back guaranteed."

www.societygames.com/codealong

Next we are ready to learn code in a sequence. We will need to download Merlin from the 3rd grade folder

Merlin Programmer for Kids is a software, which allows 5- to 8- years old children to learn sequential programming by allowing them to make Merlin or any of the other Microsoft Agent characters perform actions, move, speak, listen for and make sounds in a predetermined manner. It is available for Windows only.

Crunchzilla Code Monster  http://www.crunchzilla.com/

4th Grade

Now we will learn to use code to cr4eate virtual worlds. toontalk will have to be downloaded off the 4th grade folder.

Toontalk is not just a programming language or just a video game. Actually, it is both. Children can build and run all sorts of computer programs inside of it's animated world. While learning how to program they will face challenging puzzles, express their creativity and learn new ways to solve problems. And what is probably the most important thing of all: they will have loads of fun. Toontalk is available for Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

5th Grade- Etoys or Squak

6th Grade Scratch froom MIT

7th Alice form Carnigee Mellon

8th HTML