Kids Code & Computer Science

Ames Illusion

About the Ames Room

https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/optical-illusion-ames-room/

SketchUp Resources

www.my.sketchup.com
https://mastersketchup.com/sketchup-tutorials/
http://www.thesketchupessentials.com/sketchup-tutorials/

Command Line Interface (CLI) Part II

Examples of the “find” command

https://www.tecmint.com/35-practical-examples-of-linux-find-command/

A long-form tutorial on bash scripting

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Another longer guide to bash scripting

https://guide.bash.academy/

An alternative to bash

https://rootnroll.com/d/fish-shell/

Project SNOWstorm

Project SNOWstorm

https://www.projectsnowstorm.org/tracking-snowy-owls/

Cellular Tracking Technologies

https://www.celltracktech.com/

Cronch the Cats

About rogue-like games

https://www.lifewire.com/what-are-roguelikes-4117411
http://roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Scratch Resources

Video tutorials for beginners
https://scratch.mit.edu/help/videos/
Scratch community and resources
http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/

Hieroglyphs and Reverse Engineering

About Egyptian hieroglyphs

https://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/egyptian-hieroglyphic-alphabet/

How the Rosetta stone helped us decipher hieroglyphs

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/archaeology/rosetta-stone4.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/273-1711/sidebars/5999-egypt-translating-rosetta-stone

Hieroglyph code breaker activity

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hieroglyphics-code-breaker-6095089

Details on cracking the code

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/decipherment_01.shtml#five

Edublocks

Edublocks

http://edublocks.org/
https://microbit.edublocks.org/

About Joshua Lowe and the creation of Edublocks

https://www.tech4goodawards.com/finalist/edublocks/

Introduction to Python

http://introtopython.org/
https://www.kidscodecs.com/python-for-kids/

Random Dessert Generator

Introduction to Python

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_intro.asp
https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

Khan Academy video tutorial about lists in Python

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyEC34MY1A

Lists in Python

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_lists.asp
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_lists.htm

Python random module

http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/random/python-random-module
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzqSDvzOFNA

Image Filters

Computerphile: video about Digital Images

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06OHflWNCOE

Computerphile: video about How Blurs & Filters Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_zFhWdM4ic

Illustration of the HSB system

http://www.tomjewett.com/colors/hsb.html

RGB and HSV / HSB Color Spaces

http://colorizer.org/

Image Manipulation: Filters and Convolutions (class slides)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~theshark/courses/cs324e/lectures/cs324e-6.pdf

From Drawing to 3D

Microsoft 3D Builder

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/3d-builder/9wzdncrfj3t6?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab

Shapeways

https://www.shapeways.com/creator
https://www.shapeways.com/creator/pendant

Tinkercad

https://blog.tinkercad.com/2018/04/26/introducing-scribble-the-ultimate-tinkercad-personalization-tool/
https://www.tinkercad.com

Robot Motors

What is a Robot

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-a-robot/

Guide to Motors

https://www.circuito.io/blog/arduino-motor-guide/

Stepper Motor Tutorial

https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/400

How to use a Stepper Motor

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-use-a-Stepper-Motor/

DC Motor Control Tutorial

https://howtomechatronics.com/tutorials/arduino/arduino-dc-motor-control-tutorial-l298n-pwm-h-bridge/

Servos Explained

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/introduction-to-servo-motors

Stepper Elevator Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgeeRa5jX0

My Best Computer Science Lesson

Turtle Graphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics

Introducing Turtle Graphics for Python

https://repl.it/site/blog/python-turtle

Turtle Graphics for tk Docs (used by Repl.it)

https://docs.python.org/2/library/turtle.html

Catching a Gravitational Wave

How LIGO detected gravitational waves

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/advanced-ligo/

Caltech news release about LIGO wave detection

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170927

Facts about LIGO

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/facts

Lua

Programming in Lua, the official book by the creators of the language

https://www.lua.org/pil/

The official Lua reference manual

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/

Description of Lua in a Backus-Naur Form (BNF)

BNF is like a compact cheatsheet for the syntax of a programming language
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#9

Backus-Naur Form tutorial

http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/bnf.html

Fantasy Computers and TIC-80

TIC-80 home page

https://tic.computer/

TIC-80 github

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80

In-browser TIC-80

https://tic.computer/create

TIC-80 tutorials and documentation

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki

LIKO-12: Another up-and-coming open source fantasy computer

https://github.com/RamiLego4Game/LIKO-12

PICO-8: The big one that started the trend

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Staying Safe Online

Minecraft: a Parent’s Guide

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/minecraft-a-parents-guide/

Tips from Minecraft for staying safe online

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-multiplayer-server-safety

Safety Net Kids: Staying Safe Online

http://www.safetynetkids.org.uk/personal-safety/staying-safe-online/

Geocaching

Geocaching.com

https://www.geocaching.com/
https://www.geocaching.com/guide/
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoGeocaching#cat=cat:newbies&vid=1YTqitVK-Ts

Geocaching with Kids

https://www.washingtonparent.com/articles/1205/geocaching-with-kids.php
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/geocaching-kids.html
http://familysponge.com/play/family-adventures/geocaching-with-kids/

5 Tricks of the Trade for Geocaching with Kids

Advice from a middle school teacher who takes her classes out geocaching.
https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2014/04/5-tricks-of-the-trade-for-geocaching-with-kids/

Spatial Orientation and the Brain: The Effects of Map Reading and Navigation

https://www.gislounge.com/spatial-orientation-and-the-brain-the-effects-of-map-reading-and-navigation/

STEM Star: Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

Femmes of STEM

https://www.femmesofstem.com/

About Paleontology

https://kidsdinos.com/paleontology/
http://www.dinosaursforkids.com/paleontology.html

Parenting Science: Paleontology and dinosaurs for kids

https://www.parentingscience.com/paleontology-for-kids-reviews.html
https://www.parentingscience.com/dinosaurs-for-kids.html