Title: Creating an unplugged activity:  Coding and 17 Sustainable Development Goals against COVID-19. 

I am planning an unplugged activity with my primary school students (10-11 years old – 12th Primary School Peristeri – Athens, Greece) where they will create  a competitive-cooperative game, using the idea of Cody-Roby, that makes them familiarize with the main principles of coding. The main idea is to create a code – game that will help them reach the 3rd Sustainable Development Goal (Good health and well-being), after they take health measures against COVID-19 by collecting the health heart-cards. The activity will start from 1-5 October 2020. This activity has three main objectives: 1) Students will learn how to use the main principles of coding without internet connection while creating a competitive-cooperative game . 2) Students will learn how important is to promote and protect their own health and the health of those around school community during COVID-19 pandemic, 3) They will also be able to use this activity repeatedly to consolidate the topic in a funny way by adding more Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, students of other classes will be given the opportunity to learn/review the same topic in the future (as “ready-to-use” material). This activity is going to be included in an eTwinning project. This “learning-by-doing activity” can help students to raise their motivation and awareness in the learning process  and challenge them  to think deeply about how to select and organize the code steps into coherent structures and  construct their own code game. The duration of this unplugged coding activity is estimated 4-5 hours. Children will work in pairs in the school yard, on a painted floor with square tiles.

Prior knowledge: students have a basic knowledge of  Sustainable Development Goals framework and they will also use  pre unplugged code activity on a paper pattern.