CodeHS Python Insider: Resources to Take Your Teaching to the Next Level

➕ Midterm & Supplemental Material

You may be looking for a way to check in on student understanding of material at this point in the year. An optional midterm assessment, as well as additional Python content, is available in the supplemental materials section of your Python course. To access supplemental materials, follow the steps in the help article below.

Assigning Supplemental Material

📓 Diving into Examples

As students continue to progress through the course, you may notice that they are not spending much time interacting with the given examples in each lesson. To combat this, there are optional challenges and questions in example descriptions to encourage students to explore examples further. You can also find this information formatted into a printable handout for each lesson. As students learn to verbalize the content they’re learning, you’ll notice their understanding of the concepts growing as well!

Check out the Example Exploration Documents

❓ Python Question of the Day (QOTD)

The Question of the Day is a great resource to use in your classroom. Use it every day as a bell ringer to give students an opportunity to gauge how well they are grasping the content, split students into teams to answer the question and award prizes to the team with the most correct answers at the end of each month, or use them at the end of a unit as a premade review!

Try the Question of the Day

🔠 Unit 7: Strings - Classroom Ideas

Pretty soon, you’ll start diving into the Strings unit where students will begin manipulating text and learning about indexing. The better they understand this foundational content, the more successful they will be throughout this unit and beyond. To ensure a full grasp of these concepts, consider adding in a few string manipulation games and activities, such as the following:

String Boggle: Students have a certain number of minutes to create as many words as possible with the letters given and are awarded points at the end of the round for every unique word they have created. Run multiple rounds with different groups of students and different starting strings.
Around the World with Indexing: Write a string on the board (start with a shorter string and increase the length every 3-5 rounds). Two students stand up at their desks and are given a number which will be used as the index value for the string. The first student to shout out the character that corresponds with that string index will continue on. The other student will sit down and a new student will stand to challenge the student who answered correctly.

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