Grade 3
Unit 4: Computer Programming
Standards Assessed
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(1) Creativity and innovation. The student uses creative thinking and innovative processes to construct knowledge and develop digital products. The student is expected to:
(A) create original products using a variety of resources. (3) Research and information fluency. The student acquires and evaluates digital content. The student is expected to: (C) validate and evaluate the relevance and appropriateness of information. (4) Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. The student researches and evaluates projects using digital tools and resources. The student is expected to: (B) collect, analyze, and represent data to solve problems using tools such as word processing, databases, spreadsheets, graphic organizers, charts, multimedia, simulations, models, and programming languages. (5) Digital citizenship. The student practices safe, responsible, legal, and ethical behavior while using digital tools and resources. The student is expected to: (A) adhere to acceptable use policies reflecting positive social behavior in the digital environment. |
Enduring Understandings
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Essential Questions |
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Skills |
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Performance Tasks (main subject integration: Math)
- Goal: Using programming concepts, skills, and logic, students will create and run a program that performs a specific task or action.
- Role: Students will take on the role as a computer programmer who has been hired by a company to create a program.
- Audience: The “client” will be the teacher.
- Situation: The client would like the programmers to create a program for them that performs a specific task.
- Product: Students will use the iPad app HopScotch to program their own game.
- Standard: See Technology Standards.
Last day of https://t.co/hBDIHONgat! The students loved the programming so much they asked for it to continue as an after school club! pic.twitter.com/CnIUWFbEND
— Ms. Sarah Cornelius (@ms_cornelius) November 24, 2021