Interactive Storytelling: Showcase

Lesson Overview

Students will complete their final projects, then participate in a showcase so they can explore their classmates' projects. They will then use a rubric to self-reflect on their work on this culminating project.

Agenda

  1. Video: Perseverance #3: The Big Show (5-10 minutes)
  2. Activity: Final Project - Interactive Storytelling (30 minutes)
  3. Share: Final Project Showcase (10-15 minutes)
  4. Self-Assessment: Final Project Rubric (5-10 minutes)

Materials

  • projector
  • computing devices for all students
  • Green Level Student Workbooks, p. 20
  • student rubrics, printed
  • Final Project - Interactive Storytelling studio (teacher-created)

Vocabulary

computer science: using the power of computers to solve problems and express ourselves

event: an action that causes something to happen

loop: repeat a sequence of instructions

parallelism: sets of instructions that run at the same time

sequence: a set of instructions that follow one another in order

Standards

  • CSTA 1B-CS-02: Model how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks.
  • CSTA 1B-AP-10: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
  • CSTA 1B-AP-16: Take of varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development.
  • CSTA 1B-AP-17: Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations.

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