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3 Part Unit: Using Coding to Tell Stories
3 Part Unit: Using Coding to Tell Stories
Students use Scratch to code a story based on the book "Last Stop on Market Street. Then they use their personal life to code an original story.
House on Market Street Interactive Read Aloud and Coding Unit
House on Market Street Interactive Read Aloud and Coding Unit
Grade Level: K-3
Unit Overview: Teacher does interactive read aloud of “Last Stop on Market Street” then students code a bus moving across the city. Eventually students, code their own story based on
Subject: reading
Coding Objective: Students use Scratch* to code a story. Students connect the idea of storytelling to coding. *Could substitute using Scratch Jr. due to young age.
Standards:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Lesson 1:
Interactive read aloud of Last Stop on Market Street
Teacher stops to ask questions about key details, characters, major events throughout the reading.
At the end, we go over retelling the story
Teacher writes things that happened in the story on anchor chart
Students work to make sure events are in order.
Students return to seats and take out iPads to begin coding a retelling of the story
Teacher leads kids to adding background, adding a sprite, resizing sprites, and how to move bus across screen
Extension: kids are asked to add another sprite of something that happened in the book.
Kids who are really adept can go on to explore other features. Tell them they can add sounds.
Kids come back together, and the teacher leads discussion on how they just told a story though coding, and coding can be used in storytelling.
Lesson 2
The teacher leads discussion on the theme of the book. It is about being mindful of what is around us and seeing the beauty and magic in your everyday life.
The teacher asks students to think of things they could add to their coding story as we retell the story together
The Teacher flips the pages and guides students through a picture walk to retell what happened
A mini lesson is given on how to make the sprite disappear when the bus “picks” them up so it looks like they got picked up.
Students are given time to add more to their coding story.
At the end of the lesson, students are told that they will make a new original story about a journey they take. They are reminded to be on the look out the next time they go on a walk, or ride in a car to pay attention to things they could turn into their own story of finding beauty in everyday life.
Lesson 3
Teacher reminds students that they will code their own original story today.
Students do a turn and talk with a partner to discuss a journey they went on (walk, car ride..).
Students are then sent to explore their iPads and are given the entire period to try to code a story.
Teacher circles the room to offer help, AND students are encouraged to ask each other before asking a teacher.
Students are brought together to share progress. If students need/want more time, they can continue to work on project for an additional teaching block, or during their free time, and the group share out can be postponed.
PSA Using Animoto
PSA Using Animoto
Students use Animoto, as well as iMovie and Clips to make a PSA on a topic of their choice.
Rubric for students to follow for PSA:
Rubric for students to follow for PSA:
Using Chatterbox to Practice Perspective Taking
Using Chatterbox to Practice Perspective Taking
Students use chatterbox to put themselves in a character's shoes and act out what the character might say.
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject: Reading
Tech objective: Practice code smashing using Chatterbox and Seesaw
Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C
Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Used a Shared Reading text that the students are familiar with--everyone will use this text for their project
Talk about the feelings in the book and how readers use their voice to show how the character is feeling
Pair up reading partners and assign appropriate dialogue based on reading levels
Introduce the app Chatterbox. Show the students how to use the app and allow for some exploration time with the app.
Students take a photo of a character in their book and upload it to chatterbox. Chatterbox allows you to speak and then makes the mouth move for whatever picture you added (in this case a picture of a storybook character, they only have 30 seconds to record). The student reads dialogue from the book, so they are acting out the scene, while practicing their reading. Then save this video to photos
Students upload chatterbox to seesaw. They have to do a voiceover saying the name of the book, and what was happening before their scene.
Students present their clips to the class. Students can talk about the challenges of the process and also what the enjoyed most.
Under Construction: Tech Integration
Under Construction: Tech Integration
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