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Coding Games in Scratch

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If you like playing computer games, why not create your own? This book has all you need to build thrilling racing challenges, crazy platform games, and fiendish puzzles.

Follow the simple steps to become an expert coder using the popular programming language Scratch™. Improve your coding skills and learn to create, remix, and customize your own games. Share your games online and challenge friends and family to beat each other's scores.

Author:

Jon Woodcock

Don't Be Greedy

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Push your luck game for kids. Players take turns drawing jewels from a bag to put in their treasure chests. If they draw a frown they have to put their treasure back in the bag.

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Primary

Elementary

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Other

Play Time:

10 min.

IO Blocks

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Create a limitless world of people, animals, architecture, robots, vehicles and more with IO Blocks®! This set comprises 12 unique plastic shapes and features 6 colors; red, blue, green, tan, black and white. Curved elements add to the variety and encourage more fluid designs and organic themes. IO Blocks® connect with a secure, yet easily adjustable friction fit and feature a beautiful matte finish to the touch. This sets includes 1,000 pieces. The IO Blocks® scale is derived from a .5″ cube, the largest pieces measuring 1.5″W x 1.5 L x .5″D.

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Other

IO Blocks Minis

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A mini sized version of the classic io Blocks.

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Other

Pyramix

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Pull apart the pyramid! In Pyramix, players take turns removing one cube at a time from the pyramid stack. Cubes come in four colors and are worth 1-3 points depending on their symbol. You can remove a cube as long as two or three faces are exposed and it's not touching a cobra cube.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

15 min.

Star Trek: Five-Year Mission

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Star Trek: Five-Year Mission is a cooperative dice placement game for 3-7 players who take the roles of crew members of either the USS Enterprise (from the original Star Trek series) or the USS Enterprise-D (from Star Trek: The Next Generation).

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

30 min.

The Builders: Middle Ages

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In The Builders: Middle Ages, the cards represent buildings or workers. Players score points (and gain money) by completing the construction of buildings, while placing a worker on a construction site costs money.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

30 min.

Bad Beets

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Bad Beets is a fast-paced bluffing card game in which players must eat their vegetables — well, get rid of their vegetables through any means that they can.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

15 min.

Cubelets Modular Robotics Kit

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Cubelets are magnetic blocks for children age 4+ that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. Each Cubelet has a tiny computer inside of it and is a robot in its own right. When you put Cubelets together, you're actually making a robot out of several smaller robots. Each Cubelet communicates with its neighbors so you know that if two blocks are next to each other, they're talking. Sense Cubelets act like our eyes and ears. Action Cubelets act as outputs. They do things like make noise, spin, drive or shine a light.

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Stop Motion Animation Kit

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Included in this kit are:

2 Vanguard Desktop Tripods
2 Glide Gear Tablet Adaptors (for attaching an iPad to the Tripod
Increasing Student Learning Through Multimedia Projects by Michael Simkins, Karen Cole, Fern Tavalin and Barbara Means; ASCD 2002.
1 iPad 2 (with camera) and with iMovie and Lego Movie Maker apps (Optional) (101807)

If the iPad is needed please contact us via email when ordering the kit.

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