Olds Elementary School in Raleigh, NC piloted a Coding Club with the entire fifth grade. Two sections of fifth graders meet on Friday afternoons during the school day. What usually was a disconnected, unproductive time of the week transformed into students begging to learn new skills.
A parent volunteer from a computer industry company came in to facilitate each course, show the movies embedded in the Code.org courses and guide the students to develop their skills. This was a real bonus. Although I have no training in computer coding, I was still able to facilitate this well-designed set of courses when I needed to.
Inspire your class. Inspire yourself. Take a risk and learn right along with your students. Computational thinking will not only increase a student's academic skills, but it will develop some of those elusive creative skills just lying in wait.