Curated Video
Reporting - Safety and Abuse Tool
Keep your charges safe online with instruction on how to report problems on YouTube. After providing learners with information on the Safety and Abuse Tool, demonstrate how to use the tool and discuss the feature. In groups, learners...
Curated Video
What Makes YouTube Unique
Start off a unit on YouTube with an introduction to the service and all that it offers. Learners watch various video clips before participating in a brief discussion about YouTube. The plan includes an activity based around...
TED-Ed
What is the World Wide Web?
Did you know that the World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same thing? Did you know that Tim Berners-Lee is considered the father of the Web? Networks, web servers, web hosts, website addresses, domain names, web languages,...
Khan Academy
Intro to Drawing
Leap right into programming in JavaScript with this first video in the series. Start off with drawing a rectangle. Remember computers only know what you tell them. So you need to specify exactly where on the screen you want the...
Jay Atwood
The New Doctopus
If you're starting to reap the benefits of what Google Drive can do for your learners in their online drafting and submission of work, then you should definitely check out Doctopus. This video will walk you through the app script and how...
Khan Academy
Arrays of Objects, Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation, Computer Programming
Expand your beginning coder's use of objects in programs by looking at examples where you can change code to define and use objects in arrays and pass objects as parameters to a function. All of this leads to a deeper understanding of...
Khan Academy
Modifying Arrays, Computer Programming
An instructional video combines arrays, loops, and mouse clicks. The author shows how to modify JavaScript code to add a balloon each time the mouse is clicked. The video also shows two different ways to add to the end of the array: one...
Khan Academy
Looping Through Arrays, Computer Programming
In computer programming, loops and arrays are made for each other. This video describes adding a while loop to print out each element in an array and then doing the same procedure using a for loop.
Khan Academy
Modifying Objects, Computer Programming
Similar to using variables, object properties can be changed in the program. However, you can also dynamically add new properties while the program runs. The video shows how to define an object, use an object property, change an object...
Khan Academy
Intro to Objects, Computer Programming
When you introduce objects and object-oriented programming to your coding students, you are starting them on an important path. This introductory video shows how to replace the use of many variables with the use of a single object...
Khan Academy
Intro to Arrays, Computer Programming
Explore more cool programming features by learning how to use arrays in JavaScript code to tackle lists or sequences through a single variable. This video introduces arrays and specifically shows how they are defined and used.
Khan Academy
For Loops! A New Kind of Loop, Computer Programming
Now that you are familiar with while loops let's look at a new type of loop: the for loop. This video shows the three parts of the for loop: the start, the Boolean test, the value change, and how it differs from a while loop.
Khan Academy
Nested For Loops, Computer Programming
A loop within a loop is called a nested loop. It expands the repeating code based on two different variables. The video shows an example of drawing an image across and down a screen.
Khan Academy
Intro to While Loops, Computer Programming
Repetitive tasks, like the scenes from the movie Ground Hog Day, are common in computer programs. But how exactly do you program a piece of code to repeat specific instructions? This is where the While loop comes in handy. This video...
Khan Academy
If/Else - Part 2, Computer Programming
This is the second part of the introductory video on the if statement. It looks specifically at the else if clause in JavaScript code. Two examples are shown: one where the options are mutually exclusive and could have been programmed...
Khan Academy
If/Else - Part 1, Computer Programming
Do it, or else! In conversation, this sounds like an ultimatum, but when writing code, it's a normal way to communicate with a computer. This video shows how to extend our previously used conditional if statement to include the else...
Khan Academy
Booleans, Computer Programming
As one accumulates more life experiences, there are fewer and fewer things that are strictly one thing or another. There always seems to be some gray area or middle ground. Not so with Boolean data types! We are in a world of only two...
Khan Academy
Logical Operators, Computer Programming
As the author in this video states, "Life is complex." To handle this complexity, programming languages use something called Boolean operators. In a simple JavaScript code example, this video shows how to set up a conditional statement...
Khan Academy
Function Return Values, Computer Programming
Functions that do calculations usually need to return a value. In this video, a function calculates and returns the total number of donuts eaten based on the years someone has been alive. Hopefully, your charges will have eaten much less...
Khan Academy
Function Parameters, Computer Programming
Learn how functions in coding are even more helpful when you can pass parameters to them. The author shows how to modify a simple JavaScript function to have two parameters that help you position a repeated drawing to the correct place...
Khan Academy
Functions, Computer Programming
The next step in your class's development as young programmers is learning to define and use a simple function in JavaScript code. Younger students may require some additional explanations to help highlight the importance of functions....
Khan Academy
Local and Global Variables, Computer Programming
This video explains the difference between local and global variables in JavaScript programming without getting into the nitty gritty of variable lifetimes. Using a small coding example with a function defined, the author shows how a...
Khan Academy
More Mouse Interaction, Computer Programming
Creating interactive programs can be very exciting for new computer programmers. The author shows how to use mouseIsPressed within a conditional statement to create a small JavaScript program that responds to the user's mouse press.
Khan Academy
If Statements, Computer Programming
This video continues the Khan Academy tutorials and activities on writing code in JavaScript. Here, we are introduced to the conditional if statement. The result is a cute program that produces a bouncing ball. Your young programmers...