Daniella Latham 4 Dec 2017

Hour of Code games that will level up your students’ coding skills

The Hour of Code is definitely one of the highlights of Computer Science Education Week. Gear up for some STEM fun with awesome kahoots complementing Code.org tutorials!

Calling all Teachers of Awesome: December 4-10 is Computer Science Education Week, which means it’s time for the Hour of Code initiative! Let’s the crack the code of STEM fun together! 😉

Why is Hour of Code fun?

A recap for educators who might not be familiar with this initiative yet: the global Hour of Code initiative is a movement by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org, to help demystify computer science and prove that anyone can learn coding basics. During the week, tens of millions of students of all ages, and all around the world, will set aside one hour to participate in introductory coding tutorials and activities.

However, the learning doesn’t have to stop once the tutorial – or class – is over! We’ve got a great collection of free, themed, ready-to-play kahoots that your students can enjoy any time after the activity. For example, you can assign it as a homework challenge or play as a follow up in another class.

Featured Hour of Code games

Choose from our top picks to play, or duplicate and edit to fit your students’ needs! You can find the full collection on our Hour of Code profile.

Coding with Flappy

A kahoot to learn how to code with Flappy based Hour of Code tutorial https://studio.code.org/s/flappy

Play

Coding with Artist

Are you ready to draw and create are with code? Try this kahoot based on the Artist tutorial on Code.org.

Play

Make the most of your Hour of Code activity

After completing your Hour of Code activity, you can also challenge your students with of our kahoots as homework, or as a bonus reward. Here’s how:

1. Choose your Hour of Code kahoot, open it on your computer and hit Challenge. Or – open it in our mobile app, tap Play and then Challenge friends
2. Set when you want your challenge to end
3. Copy the challenge link or PIN and share with your students. They need the Kahoot! app to complete the challenge.
4. Check progress and results with our neat new reports!

Have fun playing!

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