Less Than 30 Days Away

We are working hard to get ready for our magnet’s 1st big Epic Build Day. We are planning to share our work with computer science with the public, and classrooms are about halfway into their projects.

I wanted to give a small preview of what you can expect to see!

Here’s a break down of the projects that are being developed so far:

Kindergarten: My Name & Story Character – In these projects, students will demonstrate the use of Loops, Sprites & Backdrops to Animate their name, and analyze character, setting & events of the book “Don’t Let Pigeon Drive the Bus.”

First Grade: My Story & Math Stairs – In these projects, students will demonstrate the use of clicked events and loops to share facts about themselves, and model addition and subtraction.

Second Grade: Maze Game & Math Maze – In these projects, students will demonstrate the use of keyboard controls, logic statements, and model solving money word problems.

Third Grade: Main Menu, Prize Booth, and Habitats Coding – In these projects, students will demonstrate how to design a game menu, design variables, create a equations for game prizes, and classify different habitats.

Fourth Grade: Projectile Game & Fraction Archers – In these projects, students will demonstrate how to use stepped motion, logic statements, store data from a variable, and compare fractions.

Fifth Grade: Story Game & Narrative Storytelling – In these projects, students will demonstrate how to manage event handling, develop event triggers, and retell a story using multiple characters, dialogue and scenes.

We have been working on these projects during weekly computer lab time as well as through classroom computer science integration lessons.