One of our favourite ICT resources for younger children is a Bee Bot. A couple of years ago I used them for a coding club with Year 1 and 2 children which was brilliant fun and a great introduction to ...
Coding for Kids
Win a Science ICT Collection from TTS
With only 8 days to go until British Science Week, we've been busy planning lots of extra special activities for the 10 day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths. Are you joining ...
Introducing KOOV
Here at Science Sparks we're passionate about the importance of teaching children to code. When I learnt to code it meant hours of sitting at a desk reading books and creating not very exciting simple ...
How to run a great KS1 coding club
I recently ran a fun coding club for Year 1 children using Bee Bots with some added science to make the challenges a bit more engaging. You can download the full KS1 Coding Club summary sheet ...
Cubetto Playset from Primo toys
Have you seen Cubetto has arrived?? Check out the Cubetto Kickstarter campaign which launched TODAY for more exciting information.If you haven't yet seen this playful wooden robot from Primo ...
WeDo 2.0 from LEGO Education
WeDo 2.0 from LEGO Education is a fantastic new learning tool designed to introduce children to robotics, engineering, programming and general STEM teaching through a robot-based learning system. The ...
Coding with Constructa-Bots
My first job after graduating was as a programmer for a bank, I had very little knowledge of programming, it is definitely not one of my innate skills but my scientific background had given me a great ...
Writing instructions – coding for kids
First up in our coding for kids series is practice at writing instructions. This is a really simple activity with potentially very funny results.I asked my 7 year old to write me two sets of ...
