Week at a Glance for Computer Specialty at JQES

2025 - 26 Computer Specialty Weekly Plan

Computer Specialty Teacher:  Andrea Blake

Questions?    Email ablake@bostonpublicschools.org

• Exit Ticket to show what you learned

• Computer Science Vocabulary you need to know 

Feb 23 - 27

K1  Chinese Dragon

1. Make a Chinese Dragon:  video instruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokeJW6A3O0 paper cutout template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qe3p22IhOwbTtLwDvFncfr6xFVFZ4dls/view

2. Use Cubetto or a BeeBot to motorize and code your dragon to move around or dance

K2 & 1st grade: Code.org

2nd to 5th grade: Introductons. Taking care of devices, expectations, Typing.com, Google Drive, Google docs, slides, forms and sheets. Journaling: Write in your journal at the end of computer specialty class every time about what you learned about or practiced today.

Let's get started. Create a Google Document: My Computer Specialty Journal.  Write your first entry in your journal:  Day 1: About Me.  Take a selfie, write 3 sentences about you. Here is a SAMPLE Journal. Finish your Day 1 entry with a Reflection about what Computer Skills You Learned (or Practiced) Today.  

Day 1 - Google Document Learning Objectives:  By the end of this lesson I will know how to:

1. Find the google drive

2. Create a folder named Computer Specialty

3. Create a Google document named My Computer Specialty Journal

4. Use the Normal Text / Title / Heading… dropdown

5. Rename the label “Untitled Document” so I can 

find my document next time

6. Use the camera to insert a photo of myself in my document

4th & 5th grade Extension: If you have extra time, create a name tag in Adobe Express, take a screenshot and add that to your About Me.  

Scratch Coders INTERMEDIATE COURSE: Scratch Lesson 6 - Guess the Number

Journaling: Write in your Computer Specialty Journal

Next week: Geometry Dash Wrap up. Write an entry in your journal about how many episodes of the video tutorials by GriffPatch you managed to watch. Did you manage to create a Geometry Dash game based on the videos? Even if you just created the cube-like player sprite and managed to code it to jump it's fine. 

If you managed to create a geometry dash game, please Share and submit your work in the Exit ticket under Scratch Extra Work for Extra Credit.  Also let me know in the comments field how far you got