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Unit 3 Culminating Project

Summary

Materials

Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments

Day 19:

  1. Introduction of the Project (10 minutes)
  2. Brainstorm Ideas (15 minutes)
  3. Pair & Share (15 minutes)
  4. Select Your Project Idea (10 minutes)
  5. Homework

Day 20:

  1. Finish Your Pseudocode (10 minutes)
  2. Pair & Share (10 minutes)
  3. Write Code (30 minutes)

Day 21:

  1. Write Code (15 minutes)
  2. Pair & Share (10 minutes)
  3. Write Code (15 minutes)
  4. Homework

Day 22:

  1. Finalize Code (10 minutes)
  2. Respond to Prompts & Turn in Project (40 minutes)

Learning Objectives

The project is a review of the Learning Objectives covered in this unit.

Essential Knowledge

The project is a review of the essential knowledge skills covered in this unit.

Details

Day 19

1. Introduction to the project (10 minutes)

  • Explain to students the requirements for the culminating project for Unit 3.
  • Provide students the Project Requirements & Responses page and the Project Rubric and give them 5 minutes to review both documents.
  • Answer any questions students have regarding the project.

2. Brainstorm ideas (15 minutes)

  • Task students with brainstorming ideas for their project.
  • Encourage them to respond to prompts on the Planning Your Program page to help generate ideas.

3. Pair and share (15minutes)

  • Group students in pairs and have them share their ideas with their classmate.
  • Students should offer feedback:
    • Which one sounds most interesting from a user's perspective?
    • Any resources or ideas you have that would help?

4. Select Your project Idea (10 minutes)

  • Students will select their project.
  • Students should share their project idea with you before class ends.

5. Homework

  • Students should begin writing the pseudocode for their program.

Day 20

1. Finish Your pseudocode (10 minutes)

  • Give students no more than 10 minutes to finish up their pseudocode.
  • If students are finished, they can begin creating their code while they wait on classmates finish.

2. Pair and share (10 minutes)

  • Students should pair up with a classmate and share their project idea and the pseudocode they have written.
  • Students should offer feedback on the pseudocode:
  • Is there something that does not seem to fit the projected plan?
  • Do you have an idea of how they can make their program stronger?

3. Write code (30 minutes)

  • Students should start writing their code.
  • Encourage students to comment on their code as they write it.
  • Remind them to create meaningful names for their variables.
  • Encourage them to save their project periodically (to protect against unexpected technical issues).
  • Remind them to test their program as they create it.

4. Homework

  • Students should evaluate how much time they will need to complete their project.
  • If they know they will need more time than allotted in class, they will need to work on the program for homework.

Day 21

1. Write code (15 minutes)

  • Students should continue writing their code.
  • Encourage students to comment on their code as they write it.
  • Remind them to create meaningful names for their variables.
  • Encourage them to save their project periodically (to protect against unexpected technical issues).
  • Remind them to test their program as they create it.

2. Pair and share (10 minutes)

  • Students should pair up with the same classmate from yesterday and share their program as it is written so far.
  • Students should offer feedback on the program:
    • Is there anything in their program that does not reflect their plan properly?
    • Do you have an idea of how to make the program stronger?
    • Are they meeting all of the requirements of the project?

3. Write code (15 minutes)

  • Students should consider their classmate's feedback:
    • Do they need to modify anything based on the feedback they received.
  • Encourage students to comment on their code as they write it.
  • Encourage them to save their project periodically (to protect against unexpected technical issues).
  • Remind them to test their program as they create it.

4. Homework

  • Students should evaluate how much time they will need to complete their project.
  • The project ends tomorrow, and they will need to write responses explaining their program tomorrow.
  • If they know they will need more time than allotted in class, they will need to work on the program for homework.
  • Students should also review the prompts that they will need to complete by the end of the day tomorrow.

Day 22

Finalize code (10 minutes)

  • Students should finish their code, if they have not already.
  • Task students with:
    • Publishing their project.
    • Creating a screencast of their program running.
    • Creating a screenshot of their program.
    • Labeling the screenshot with the three algorithm implementations.

Respond to prompts and turn in project (40 minutes)

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