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Lightbot is a game that asks players to use programming logic to solve puzzles! Gain a practical understanding of basic coding concepts by guiding Lightbot to light up all the blue tiles in each level. Learn how to sequence instructions, write procedures, and utilize loops along the way in this self-guided activity. Great for all ages and all skill levels.

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Program Lightbot to light up all of the blue squares!

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Minecraft is back for the Hour of Code with a brand new activity! Journey through Minecraft with code.

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Minecraft Generation AI

Venture through time to create your AI-powered inventions! The new Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial is now available in Minecraft Education for Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iPad and Mobile. Get started with free educator resources, trainings, and videos.

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Minecraft is back for the Hour of Code, and you're the hero! Write code to journey through Minecraft biomes.

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Learn to program droids, and create your own Star Wars game in a galaxy far, far away.

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La guerre des étoiles : construire une galaxie avec du code

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Learn to program droids, and create your own Star Wars game in a galaxy far, far away.

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Code a Dance Party to share with your friends. Featuring Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Lil Nas X, Panic! At The Disco, Jonas Brothers, and many more!

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It's time to strut your stuff! Create your own dance party featuring hits by Miley Cyrus, BTS, Lil Nas X, Harry Styles, Nicki Minaj, Rosalía, and more!

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Create a solar system that really rocks! Learn about music, astronomy, and coding in this self-guided activity (no coding experience required). Program planets to make music, creating your own musical solar system, complete with spacey melodies.

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Note on orbits: The planets in this activity orbit clockwise. The star/planet systems your students build in Space Jam can be any possible star/planet system they like, and star/planet systems can orbit clockwise (or counterclockwise like our own solar system does when viewed from the North) depending on the molecular cloud they formed in and how the system developed.

Grades 2-5 notes: Younger audiences will need a little guidance to get started and some encouragement along the way. The step-by-step nature provided in the lessons should help, and you can take advantage of this by dividing the lessons into even smaller chunks for your learners, moving on to the next segments and lessons as attention permits. There will be terms that need some definition or further discussion to relate the lessons to coding concepts and also astronomical phenomena, such as periods of orbits - see our glossary for help with those terms.

Grades 6-9+ notes: For older learners, after completing all 8 lessons direct your learners to press the 'More!' button to explore pre-made musical versions of real solar systems. More advanced learners can also complete a bonus activity which lets them choose any real planetary system and perform simple calculations (division with a calculator) to create them on their own within the app. There are also complementary NASA Space Math activities that will pair well with this activity for a math extension:

1) Exploring the Evaporating Exoplanet HD189733b

Students estimate how quickly this planet will lose its atmosphere and evaporate at its present loss rate of 6 million tons/second.

[Grade: 6-8 | Topics: mass= density x volume; rates; volume of a sphere]

( PDF)[ Related Science Press Release]

2) Chandra Sees a Distant Planet Evaporating

The planet CoRot2b is losing mass at a rate of 5 million tons per second. Students estimate how long it will take for the planet to lose its atmosphere.

[Grade: 6-8 | Topics: Scientific Notation; Rate = Amount/Time]

( PDF)[ Related Science Press Release]

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Note on orbits: The planets in this activity orbit clockwise. The star/planet systems your students build in Space Jam can be any possible star/planet system they like, and star/planet systems can orbit clockwise (or counterclockwise like our own solar system does when viewed from the North) depending on the molecular cloud they formed in and how the system developed.