This week marks a big step forward for the progress of our school-wide magnet program. We are taking computer science instruction into every classroom. Teachers are beginning to teach integration units across all grade levels. We have a wide variety of projects that will be started this week. Some grade level are integrating math, some are using language arts and we even have a group working with science skills.
To give a better picture of what this looks like, I would like to describe the lesson many 3rd graders will be doing this week as they begin a project called “Prize Booth.” Students work this week to demonstrate their understanding of multidigit adding and subtracting by creating a “mini” project where they create an interactive display of two different math sentences. The students will learn to use different “event” and “look” blocks to share 2-3 facts they have learn about this topic. The lesson is made even more challenging as students dive into some graphic editing skills as well, since they will have to make their own number sentence “sprites.” I have included a sample of what is being taught below.
Computer Science Immersion School @ Sandlapper Elementary School 