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December 11, 2018

Teacher Highlight: Amy Benford, Albert Woodward Elementary (Time & Money)

Amy has used Root in a variety of ways which we'll be sharing over the next few weeks. Today's activities include a couple hands-on, gamified approaches to learning more about time and money using Root, the Root Coding app, and the whiteboa...

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Teacher Highlight: Amy Benford, Albert Woodward Elementary (Time & Money)

Amy has used Root in a variety of ways which we'll be sharing over the next few weeks. Today's activities include a couple hands-on, gamified approaches to learning more about time and money using Root, the Root Coding app, and the whiteboa...

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Teacher Highlight: Kimberly Harrell, Hammond School

Root can be applied in a variety of contexts in the classroom, ranging from classroom management to hands-on application to a motivating (and sometimes secretly educational!) reward for students. Looking for some ideas about how to integrat...

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Root's Hour of Code

December 3-9, 2018 is Computer Science Education Week  👩‍💻🎼 🎨 💻  🤖 🕺👨‍💻 To help the celebration get started, we're offering two downloadable packets each jam-packed with 8 different activities (both on and off-screen), challenging studen...

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Halloween Conditionals: Pumpkin Root

Practice your skills by creating and coding a light-activated jack-o'-lantern with Root....

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Halloween Costume Template

      We all already know how fun it is to personalize your Root with whiteboard markers and vinyl clings; this Halloween season let's kick it up a notch with the help of the Root Halloween Costume Worksheet. Print this worksheet ou...

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Root Alphabet Guide

This Root Alphabet Guide is a helpful resource as you begin to code Root to draw letterforms on any drawing surface. ...

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Root's Classroom Quiet Game

Root provides an engaging incentive for students to keep their volume down during quiet work periods. ...

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Printable Planning Code Blocks

Printable Planning Code Blocks: A tactile tool to aid students in their planning process off-screen...

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Root @ Kennedy Space Center

We’re extremely excited to announce that beginning this week, we are starting a new pilot program at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida! Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex brings to life the epic story of the U.S. space pr...

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Root at ISTE 2018

This past week, some of our team was in Chicago to gather with over 16,000 educators from all over the world at the McCormick Center for the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. "ISTE is a nonprofit organizat...

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