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Dance moves

Age: 5-11 years
Concepts: Algorithms
Overview: Children will make up a dance routine and create the instructions for a partner to follow.

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Building blocks

Age: 5-11 years
Concepts: Decomposition, Algorithms
Overview: Help ‘build’ your child’s understanding of algorithms and decomposition by designing simple instructions to build a model in this fun activity.

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Pizza party

Age: 5-11 years
Concepts: Programming, Debugging, Algorithms
Overview: Computing in the kitchen? Children will love making their own pizzas while learning to create and debug (fix) the recipe.

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Story sequencing

Age: 4-6 years
Concepts: Algorithms
Overview: Using a well-known story or song, children learn how important it is to put a sequence of events in the right order - the first step in understanding algorithms.

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Going wild

Age: 5-11 years
Concepts: Programming, Debugging, Algorithms
Overview: Children programme their homemade bee to move towards flowers by creating a short sequence of instructions (an algorithm).

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House patterns

Age: 5-7 years
Concepts: Patterns
Overview: By drawing their own house, exploring and identifying similarities between features of other houses, children start to understand patterns.

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Shopping List

Age: 5-11 years
Concepts: Algorithms, Abstraction
Overview: You can’t make a cake without the right ingredients. In this activity, creating a shopping list helps children get the hang of abstraction.

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Hand jive sequence

Age: 7-11 years
Concepts: Decomposition
Overview: Using a sequence of hand jives, children break down actions into smaller parts - just as problems are broken down to create computer programs like video games.

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2D shapes

Age: 7-11 years
Concepts: Logic, Debugging, Algorithms
Overview: Get creative with computing! Children use 2D shapes and algorithms (a series of instructions) to draw pictures, detecting and correcting errors in the process.

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Human robot

Age: 5-7 years
Concepts: Debugging, Algorithms
Overview: Transforming into robots and programming each other's movements is at the heart of this fun and educational activity.

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Creating patterns

Age: 5-7 years
Concepts: Patterns, Evaluation, Debugging, Algorithms
Overview: Children spot and create patterns.

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Mini missions

Our quick, easy to do mini activities provide fun ideas to get children practising their computational thinking skills.

Split into the six computational thinking concepts it’s easy to discover new ways to introduce and reinforce learning from school and at home.

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Interactive learning games

We have also created some fantastic online games for children to explore. These fun activities are Barefoot inspired and apply computational thinking concepts to promote learning while playing.

Barefoot Zoo

Age: 5-11 years
Concepts: Abstraction
Overview: Help Ranger Jack use the powers of abstraction to save his struggling zoo!

Sorting It Out

Age: 5-7 years
Concepts: Logic, Algorithms
Overview: There’s a goat in the pig pen! Help Barefoot Farm sort out this mess.

Code Cracking

Age: 7-11 years
Concepts: Evaluation, Logic
Overview: Learn about code cracking in WW11 and use your evaluation skills to help stop the invasion!

Colourful Kits

Age: 5-7 years
Concepts: Data
Overview: Learn all about patterns, logic and debugging through a series of sporting themed activities.

The Diamond

Age: 9-11 years
Concepts: Logic, Algorithms
Overview: Dr Mischief has stolen the world's biggest diamond. Use logic and algorithms to get it back.

Asteroid Blaster

Age: 7-11 years
Concepts: Variables
Overview: Jump onboard the Asteroid Blaster space-ship and learn all about variables.