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Project Plan: Dance Party
Students will begin the creation of a Dance Party project in Scratch that will show their understanding of loops. In this first lesson of a three lesson sequence, students will plan out their Dance Party project on paper using a planning guide, then begin building their project using Scratch.
Materials
Materials
- projector
- computing devices for students
- Student Workbook (pg. 38-41) or handouts
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
- Youtube: Pair Programming
- Pair Programming posters
- Pair Programming Kahoot game (5 questions)
- Scratch Help Cards Library
Language Frames
Language Frames
Lesson 15 Placemat.docxObjectives
Objectives
Computer Science Objectives
Computer Science Objectives
- Students will practice experimenting and iterating in building projects while collaborating ideas with a partner.
- Explore the role a loop block plays in a script.
- Analyze scripts and the event that will occur by reading codeblocks.
Language Objectives
Language Objectives
- Students will negotiate with others by offering opinions through the use of a variety of learned phrases
- Students will support opinions using a variety of modal expressions to provide substantial support
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- scripts: a gathering of codeblocks that create an action to occur
- event: an action that causes something to happen.
- loops: the block that causes actions of doing something over and over again.
- repeat: a constant action, sound, or movement
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
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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