DMS Students Expand Computer Science
Coding Principles
FOX CH APE L AR EA SC H OO L NE WS
ox Chapel Area
Dorseyville Middle School business applications teacher Cathie Gillner
helps a small group of sixth graders code using a simplified version of code
called Blockly where they pull in blocks of code to help the robots perform
a task. The students have to think through the process and problem solve
how they will command the robot to complete a task.
Dorseyville Middle School sixth grade students use Bloxels, a video game
creation platform. Students use their district-provided iPads to photograph
their Bloxel creation and it is then turned into a video game.
Students create commands for coding tags (wireless electronic blocks
that each have a different function such as motion or sound) that connect
wirelessly to an app and are then used to build or create something. They
brainstorm what they want to create and then code the tags through the
app. Each t