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Project Plan: About Me
Students will begin the creation of an About Me project in Scratch that will show their understanding of events. In this first lesson of a three lesson sequence, students will plan out their About Me project on paper using a planning guide, then begin building their project using Scratch.
Agenda
Agenda
- Exploring Events Sheet
- Project Plan: About Me
- Reflect & Discuss
Materials
Materials
- projector
- computing devices for students
- Project Plan: About Me handout
- Student Workbook (p. 27-29)
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Language Frames
Language Frames
Lesson 11 Placemat (L8 in CONECTAR 1).docxObjectives
Objectives
Computer Science Objectives
Computer Science Objectives
- Students will be introduced to the concepts of events (one thing causing another thing to happen) through performance
- Students will explain what events are and how they work in Scratch
- Students will become familiar with a wider range of Scratch blocks
- Students will be able to create an open-ended Scratch project that is an interactive digital representation of their personal interests
Language Objectives
Language Objectives
- Students will be able to tell their own story through events and experiences in an organized or sequential way.
- Students will be able to retell events using words and phrase appropriate for the grade level.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- event: An action that causes something to happen.
- algorithm: A list of steps that you can follow to finish a task.
- initialization: Assign an initial (beginning) value to an object (or variable).
- parallelism: Making things happen at the same time.
- program: An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
- sequence: A particular order of steps or events.
Standards
Standards
- CSTA1B-IC-18: Discuss computing technologies that have changed the world, and express how those technologies influence, and are influenced by, cultural practices
- 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.
English Language Arts
English Language Arts
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3.A Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.*.
- 1. Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social
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