The lesson can be combined with storybooks to further integrate the curriculum into English language arts instruction. This lesson plan has incorporated the story "The Most Magnificent Things" into the learning activities.

Objectives

Lesson Plan

Vocabulary

• computer science: A field in which people use the power of computers to solve big problems.
• project editor: A feature of the Scratch online community that allows projects to be modified. This includes the script area (where scripts are assembled), the sprite area (where sprites can be manipulated), and the stage area (where sprites are positioned and where backgrounds can be accessed).
• sprite: A media object that performs actions on the stage in a Scratch project.
• stage: The background of a Scratch project. The stage can have scripts, backdrops (costumes), and sounds, similar to a sprite.
• studio: A user-created gallery in the Scratch online community that can be used to highlight projects contributed by one or many users.
• magnificent: over the top wonderful, most wonderful.
• mindset: your attitude or ideas with which your approach a situation, Your mental disposition that determines your response to problem solving, overcoming obstacles or facing challenges.
• perseverance: ability to keep trying even when frustrated.
• imagination: ability to dream without boundaries-this means thinking of things that don’t exist yet.

Colloquial Expressions

• easy-peasy: super simple
• tinkers: tries to fix with simple steps
• fiddles: same as tinkers
• tweaks: makes small adjustments

Standards

Computer Science

• CSTA 1B-AP-10: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
• CSTA 1B-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

• ELA SL.3.1,6: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
• ELA L.3.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
• ELA L.3.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
• RL.3.5: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
• SL.3.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
• L.3.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• L.3.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
• L.3.3.A: Choose words and phrases for effect.

English Language Development

• 1. Understanding text structure.
• 2. Understanding cohesion.