TASK COMMUNICATION
THE STEM from Home pack on communication is also aimed at helping participants communicate online in a safe and responsible manner.
For the online activity in this pack CGI UK partnered with Thinkuknow, the education programme that protects children both online and offline.
Thinkuknow has produced a variety of home activity packs including topics such as staying safe online, video chatting, advice for young people and the evolution of technology. The activities are aimed at children age 4-14 and each last around 15 minutes.
This pack also teaches about the history of Morse Code, how it is used and how participants can write their own.
All that is needed is a computer capable of accessing the internet and Microsoft Word.
There is also a STEM “Who Am I” game which teaches children about the world of STEM and all its job possibilities. Players have to guess the STEM job role by asking up to 20 questions that can only have yes or no answers.
Effective communication is key in this game to ensure players can guess the STEM job within the 20 questions.
The bonus activity is to create a web page which can translate normal English text into pirate speak using jQuery and regular expressions. All that is required is a computer connected to the internet.
Students learn how to use jQuery to cause live updates on a web page, how to write regular expressions to match patterns and words and how to create a web page to input and output results. www.cgi.com/uk/corporate-socialresponsibility/stem-from-home