One of our teachers had the chance to teach coding and robotics to 2nd, 3rd and 5th primary students at I.C. Dante Alighieri in Pesaro (Italy). The programme included:first steps in coding through the app Scratch Jr: creation of context (background and characters) and simple block coding (movement, events and iterations);advanced options in Scratch Jr (multiple events, iterations, message broadcast and reception);block-based coding with Scracth (www.scratch.mit.edu) and its basic coding tools: movement, appearance, sounds, conditions (if…then…else);hardware understanding (sensors, LEDs, chassis, motors, connections, electronics) and hardware control via MakeBlock block-based coding (ide.makeblock.com).

It was a pleasure to collaborate with the Italian teachers and to work productively with the Italian pupils.