Describe key ideas and details while working individually or collaboratively using digital tools and media-rich resources in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains.
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| Civic Participation - Part 3 | Students will be using peer feedback to improve digital artifacts from Lesson 2 before presenting to the class. Students will use gained knowledge to summarize learning from other students' presentations. This is the final lesson in a three-part integrated computer science and civics mini-unit. |
| Civic Participation- Part 1 | Students will be given a brief introduction to the terms: civility, cooperation, volunteerism, and other civic virtues. Students will conduct in-depth research to complete a guided note-taking worksheet about these topics. They will be able to determine the key ideas and details about this topic and reflect on how working in groups on this digital project brought them to their answers more efficiently. This is the first lesson in a three-part integrated computer science and civics mini-unit. |
| Lesson 1: Working Collaboratively! | This lesson is Part 1 of a 3-part unit integrating Civics and Computer Science. Students will view a program using Scratch Coding and define key terms while collaborating to create a PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate their knowledge. |
| Lesson 2: Volunteer Coding Plan! | In this integrated lesson plan (2 of 3), students will describe a plan using Scratch block coding working collaboratively with a partner. Students will describe details and ideas in the planning process. This is lesson 2 of a three-part integrated computer science and civics mini-unit. |
| Patriot, Loyalist, or Neutral- Part 3 | Students will giving and taking feedback to make edits to Scratch projects before presenting. Students will take in all learned information about the perspectives of the colonists to write a short claim-evidence-reasoning paragraph response on they would have chosen and why. Students will wrap up this lesson as part three of a three-part Civics and Coding integrated series. |
| Patriot, Loyalist, or Neutral- Part 1 | In this Civics and Coding integrated lesson, students will complete research on Patriots and Loyalists from colonial times. Students will identify reasons that colonists would have chosen to be a patriot, loyalist, or neutral. This is lesson one of a three-part unit that will culminate with a student-created Scratch project. |
| A "Seal" of Approval: Coding and Integrated Civics Part II | This lesson plan serves as the second step in a series of a three-lesson mini-unit. Within this integrated civics lesson, students will begin the "unplugged" designing process of their Scratch coding project. Students will research the Great Seal of the United States and prepare to input the information gathered into their own project. |
| A "Seal" of Approval: Coding and Integrated Civics Part I | This lesson plan serves as the first step in a series of a three-lesson mini-unit. Within this integrated civics lesson, students will become acclimated to the ways in which computer science, and more specifically coding, have the ability to share factual information about national symbols. |
| Showing up as a Citizen Coding Project Part 1 | In this integrated lesson, the students will plan a Scratch program where multiple characters interact to demonstrate acts of civility. The students will use prior knowledge of citizens demonstrating civility, cooperation, and volunteerism to plan out a code that shows a character performing an act of civility. The students will use a Scratch planning sheet and Scratch Code sheet to guide their coding creation. |
| Patriotic Holiday Computer Research: Part 1 | In this integrated lesson, the students will research a patriotic holiday or observance and will gather facts about the history and meaning behind the holiday. The students will collect information to be used in their future scratch projects for lesson 2. The students will work in partner groups to research using digital information resources to locate information about patriotic holidays. |
