3rd Grade
WEEK 1
WELCOME!
Seating directions
Signing in
Daily Apps
The In is Typing.com
Classcraft.com introduction
Signing on to your Google account
Your out is your Leadership Website
WEEK 2
Leadership Website Example Website
Create your profile avatar. Save your avatar to your computer as a download. Open your Google settings and upload your new profile picture.
Week 3
Your in will be www.typing.com
Students Learn how to make Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 4
Your in will be www.typing.com
Intro to Google Docs
Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 5
Your in will be www.typing.com
Intro to Google Drawings. You will create an event ticket complete with date, time, place, seat row etc to make it look like a real ticket for an event of your choice. We will learn about graphic art and layering.
Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 6
Your in will be www.typing.com
Intro to Google Drawings. You will create an event ticket complete with date, time, place, seat row etc to make it look like a real ticket for an event of your choice. We will learn about graphic art and layering. Students learn the shortcuts for copy and pasting to make multiple tickets and add them to their leadership websites.
Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 7
Your in will be www.typing.com
Google Drawings and Graphic Art. You will create a book cover that includes a background, a proper title, sub title, characters, and the authors name. Add this to your Google Website portfolio and update your portfolio so that each subject at school has a page.
Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 8
Your in will be www.typing.com
This week we will practice creating a Google Slide. We will add animations, sounds, and transitions. We will also gain practice in using editing tools to make our slideshow look great. Add 4 slides to get started.
Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 9
Your in will be www.typing.com
Your goal is to continue creating your all bout me Google slide show by using the tools from the toolbar. We will add 5 slides, sounds, animations, themes, and
Portable Network Graphics/ png pictures to help viewers know about your favorite things.
We will have extra time to organize our Leadership websites and add pages, slides, docs, and anything else we need to make it beautiful.
Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 10
Your in will be www.typing.com
Lesson 3: Introduction to Online Puzzles in Code.org Course D
ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
Break down a long sequence of instructions into the largest repeatable sequence.
Modify an existing program to solve errors.
Order movement commands as sequential steps in a program.
Out is: Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 11
Your in will be www.typing.com
Lesson 5: Debugging with Laurel in Code.org Course D
ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
Describe and implement a plan to debug a program.
Identify a bug and the problems it causes in a program.
Read and comprehend given code.
Out is: Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 12
Your in will be www.typing.com
Lesson 6: Events in Bounce
Objectives
Students will be able to:
Create an interactive game using sequence and event-handlers.
Identify actions that correlate to input events.
Share a creative artifact with other students.
Out is: Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 13
Your in will be www.typing.com
Lesson 7: Build a Star Wars Game
Objectives
Students will be able to:
Create an animated, interactive game using sequence and events.
Identify actions that correlate to input events
Out is: Google Sites for leadership portfolio
Week 14
Course D - Lesson 8
Dance Party
In = Typing.com for 5 minutes.
Objectives Students will be able to:
Create dance animations with code
Develop programs that respond to timed events
Develop programs that respond to user input
Vocabulary
Event - An action that causes something to happen.
Program - An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
Code - (v) to write code, or to write instructions for a computer.
Out = Update your leadership website.
Week 15
Course D - Lesson 8
Dance Party
In = Typing.com for 5 minutes.
Objectives Students will be able to:
Create dance animations with code
Develop programs that respond to timed events
Develop programs that respond to user input
Vocabulary
Event - An action that causes something to happen.
Program - An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
Code - (v) to write code, or to write instructions for a computer.
Out = Update your leadership website.
Week 16
ObjectivesStudents will be able to:
Construct a program using structures that repeat areas of code
Improve existing code by finding areas of repetition and moving them into looping structures
Vocabulary
Loop - The action of doing something over and over again.
Repeat - To do something again.
Week 17 Introduction to Scratch: Take a Walk project
In: Typing.com for 5 minutes
Welcome to CS First! Today, you're going to use a tool called Scratch to code a character to go for a walk.
Your goal is to explore and learn the basics of Blockly programming.
Out: Update your Leadership Website.
Week 18 Scratch Characterization
In: Typing.com 5 minutes
Learning Objectives
By selecting add-on videos that present coding challenges, students will:
Use event blocks (like “when flag clicked”) to trigger a series of code.
Sequence at least 3 “say” blocks to start their story (by selecting a character).
Use motion blocks (like “glide to X Y“) to personalize their story.
Use wait blocks to construct a dialogue between two sprites.
Out: Leadership Website update
Week 19 Scratch Characterization project add on.
In: Typing.com 5 minutes
Learning Objectives
By selecting add-on videos that present coding challenges, students will:
Use event blocks (like “when flag clicked”) to trigger a series of code.
Sequence at least 3 “say” blocks to start their story (by selecting a character).
Use motion blocks (like “glide to X Y“) to personalize their story.
Use wait blocks to construct a dialogue between two sprites.
Out: Leadership Website update
Week 20 Scratch Project: Interactive Presentation
You in is: 5 minutes of typing practice
Your goal is to create a new presentation, or take an existing one, and make it interactive by using block code in the Scratch starter project.
Your out is to update your leadership website.
Week 21 Scratch Project: Interactive Presentation
You in is: 5 minutes of typing practice
Your goal is to keep creating your new presentation, or take an existing one, and make it interactive by using block code in the Scratch starter project.
Use the links below to animate your sprite character and add movement block when the character is clicked.
Your out is to update your leadership website.
Week 22 Scratch Project: Dialogue
In: Typing.com 5 minutes
Students, your goal is to program a conversation between two characters to explore the role of dialogue in storytelling by using Scratch code.
Out: Update your leadership website.
Week 23: Scratch Project Narration
In: 5 Minutes of Typing.com
Students, your goal is to take an existing story and explore first and third person point of view by programming Scratch Code.
Out: Update your leadership website.
Week 24: Computer Assisted Drafting with Tinkercad.com
In: Typing.com
Your goal is to create objects in 3D using CAD/Computer Assisted Drafting by using the lessons from tyinkercad.com
Out: Update your leadership website.
Week 25: CAD Design a bird house project
In: Typing.com 5 Minutes of solid practice
Objective: Your goal is to create bird house in Tinkercad.com by using CAD tools and shapes.
Out: Update your leadership website with your CAD work.
Week 25: CAD Design a bird house
In: Typing.com 5 Minutes of solid practice
Objective: Your goal is to create bird house in Tinkercad.com by using CAD tools and shapes.
Out: Update your leadership website with your CAD work.
Week 26: Tinkercad.com: Design a Bridge in CAD
Typing practice for 5 minutes.
Your goal is to create bridge of any type by using 3D shapes in Tinkercad.com.
Out: Take a screen shot of your work and add it to your Leadership Website.
Week 27: Tinkercad.com: Design a Bridge in CAD continued.
Typing practice for 5 minutes.
Out: Take a screen shot of your work and add it to your Leadership Website.
Week 28: TinkerCAD 3D design an avatar.
Students design an avatar either based on themselves or a fictional person. First, they create a detailed list of adjectives describing the avatar’s physical traits. Next, they draw a 2D sketch of their avatar design and measure the dimensions. And then finally, they create their design in 3D using Tinkercad.com
Week 29: Design an Inclusive Play Space
In: Typing.com 5 minutes
Your goal is to design a elementary playground by using CAD tools in Tinkercad.com.
Out: Take a screen shot buy clicking; windows, shift, and S. Drag across the selected area.
Open your Leadership Website
Use, "ctrl V" to paste in your screenshot.Update anything else that you can in your website such as writings, slide shows, sheets, and anything else related to school.
Week 30: 3D CAD With Physics Marble Run
In: Typing.com 4 minutes.
Quiz on Google Tools.
Objective: Your goal is to design a Marble run in Tinkercad by using slides, supports and enabling physics to test your engineering model.
Out: Screenshot your project for your Leadership Website.
Week 31: CAD and Programming Shapes
In: Typing.com or Nitrotype.com
Your goal is to create shapes and placing them in locations by using code blocks in Tinkercad.com.
You will practice intro to shapes, moving shapes, and rotating shapes.
OUT: Take a screen shot ( ctrl + shift + windows key) and paste it in your leadership website.