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Agenda
8:15-8:30 - Welcome (Caitlin)
8:30-9:15 - Scratch Update and 4th Quarter Capstone Projects (Jason and Susan)
9:15-9:30 - Break
9:30-10:30 - First Quarter DCA Reflection (Caitlin)
10:30-11:30 - Hour of AI (Caitlin)
At the end of last year CS First was discontinued by Google. Experience CS is the recommended replacement tool for CS First according to Google.
However, at this time they still do not have a secure way for students to login and create accounts.
Do not have students create accounts on Experience CS at this time. We are hopeful that they will make improvements to their student accounts as they continue to develop their product.
If you want students to create a project using Scratch they can use the Experience CS Scratch Editor linked below or students can use a blank (not logged in) editor in Scratch (from MIT) linked below.
If you want students to be able to save their work, they will have to download and upload their projects. There is a video tutorial linked below.
For the 4th grade Capstone Projects we are now using the following Code.Org projects
Coding a geometric star pattern
Coding a Book Cover
Coding with Poetry
New lesson closures and formative assessment opportunities are included on the CS Google Site.
These were created for grades 3-5
These have similar style questions that students will see on the new quarterly summative assessments for grades 3-5. More information on that below.
Thank you, Jason and Susan for creating these resources!