The ARC Innovation Topic continues in the second semester of this AP CSP curriculum. It is worthy of emphasizing the importance of student driven topic selection. This unit and the following unit will have a ARC Team challenge that blends and authentically applies the content of the unit with the selected ARC topic for each team.
During Unit 6, the students will design a musical introduction that fits the mood of their ARC topic by interviewing a user or the actual maker of the innovation. As an alternative if students chose a topic where finding a user is difficult, the instructor can use a client such as a student organization or school partner to give the students more choice. This unit is an expansion of what students may have done as an optional programming plugin during unit 2. While all the rest of this AP CSP curriculum is done as collaborative projects, this project is done individually to insure a coding foundation is set for each student individually.