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Computer Science Discoveries Unit 3 Chapter 1 Lesson 6: Sprites (18-19)

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Title:

 Computer Science Discoveries Unit 3 Chapter 1 Lesson 6: Sprites (18-19)

URL:

 https://studio.code.org/s/csd3-2018/stage/6/puzzle/1

Content Source:

 Code.org
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

In order to create more interesting and detailed images, the class is introduced to the sprite object. Every sprite can be assigned an image to show, and sprites also keep track of multiple values about themselves, which will prove useful when making animations. At the end of the lesson, everyone creates a scene using sprites.

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Content Standard(s):
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 6
3) Create pseudocode that uses conditionals.

Examples: Using if/then/else (If it is raining then bring an umbrella else get wet).

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • compile a set of steps that contain conditional operations to include if, then, and else.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • pseudocode
  • conditionals
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that conditional statements provide options for how a process is completed.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • communicate a process and its available yes/no or true/false options.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • conditionals are limited to options that are either true or false.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 6
5) Identify algorithms that make use of sequencing, selection or iteration.

Examples: Sequencing is doing steps in order (put on socks, put on shoes, tie laces); selection uses a Boolean condition to determine which of two parts of an algorithm are used (hair is dirty? True, wash hair; false, do not); iteration is the repetition of part of an algorithm until a condition is met (if you're happy and you know it clap your hands, when you're no longer happy you stop clapping).

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • find algorithms that demonstrate the three basic programming structures.
Teacher Vocabulary:
algorithm sequence selection iteration
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • differences between the three basic programming structures.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • explain the differences in sequencing, selection, and iteration.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • differences exist in sequencing, selection, and iteration.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 6
6) Identify steps in developing solutions to complex problems using computational thinking.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • use the problem solving or design thinking process to think logically through a previously solved complex problem.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • computational thinking
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to define the problem.
  • how to plan solutions.
  • how to implement a plan.
  • how to reflect on the results and process.
  • how to iterate through the process again.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • identify the steps involved with formulating problems and solutions in a way that can be represented or carried with or without a computer.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • computational thinking is formulating problems and solutions in a way that can be represented or carried out with or without a computer.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 7
4) Design a complex algorithm that contains sequencing, selection or iteration.

Examples: Lunch line algorithm that contains parameters for bringing your lunch and multiple options available in the lunch line.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • design complex algorithms that demonstrate the three basic programming structures: sequencing, selections, or iterations.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • algorithm
  • sequence
  • selection
  • iteration
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to use the programming structures to design complex algorithms that make use of all three programming structures sequencing, selections, and iterations.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • design complex algorithms using the various programming structures found in algorithms.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • complex algorithms contain sequencing, selections, and iterations.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 8
1) Design a function using a programming language that demonstrates abstraction.

Example: Create a program that utilizes functions in an effort remove repetitive sequences of steps.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • design a function that demonstrates the removal of repetitive sequence of steps.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • function
  • abstraction
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that a function can be called into a programming while abstracting out the details contained within the function.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • create a function that can be called into a programming while leaving out the details contained within the function.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • abstraction is a way of hiding the details of a complex function and being able to quickly make use of the complexity that has been hidden abstraction by calling in the function.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 8
4) Create a function to simplify a task.

Example: 38 = 3*3*3*3*3*3*3*3; =(Average) used in a spreadsheet to average a given list of grades.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • create a function that simplifies a task.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • function
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that a function can be used to simplify a task.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • create and use functions to simplify tasks.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • functions are useful tools used abundantly in algorithms.
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