Lesson Plan

Name of Lesson: Coding (Scratch) - Day 2

Learning (TEKS) Objective:

Technology Applications (8.1.B) and Art (8.2.A)
Technology Applications: The student is expected to: create, present, and publish original
works as a means of personal or group expression.
Art: The student is expected to: create artworks integration themes found through direct
observation, personal experience, and imagination.

Student Outcome (Students will be able to…)

Students will be able to understand and explore a coding website that will lead them to have a
deeper understanding of coding.

Day of the Week and Time:

Tuesday on the last hour before leaving.

Total Length of Lesson:

This lesson will take 1 hour to complete.

Materials (per 1 class of 30 students):

30 printed pieces of paper for entrance ticket

30 pieces of paper for vocabulary foldable
30 pencils used to write
30 color pencils packs to help the students color
30 notecards used to write down information about scratch
30 laptops for scratch

Advanced Preparation (day before, morning of…)

Make sure that all laptops work and are charged. Make sure you have the entrance ticket
paper printed.

Instructional Delivery Notes to

Teacher:

Activity 1: Engage Duration: 15 min

The lesson will begin by having the students work independently in a coding Groups of 4
puzzle (attached). However when every student from a group of 4 come needed
together with their independent solved puzzle it should form the word code.
This is an entrance ticket.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hour-of-Code-Coding-Puzzles-
Unplugged-2910169
Activity 2: Explore Duration: 7 min You can do 1
or 2 groups
A random group will be picked to come up to the front of the classroom and
of
show their puzzle and explain how they got it. (Discussion to see if everyone
presentation
got the same answer).
depending on
how long the
students take
during
presentation.

Activity 3: Explain Duration: 15 min Foladable was

arelady made
The teacher will handout pieces of paper for foldable which students will use to for every
write down some basic coding vocabulary that the teacher will explain. student.

Vocabulary words: code, block-based programming, loop, input, output, run a

program.
I will attach a PowerPoint on google drive.
Activity 4: Elaborate Duration: 15 min Scratch
Website:
Now the teacher will introduce Scratch to the class and will have the whole https://scratch
class create their own Scratch account. Have the students write down their .mit.edu/
Name, Username, and Password in a Notecard that they will give to the teacher
just in case they forget it the next few days. Video to help
demonstrate
how to sign
All students should have the same password and similar usernames: into Scratch:
https://www.y
Usernames: Initial of first name and if they have a middle name initial could be
included and last name outube.com/w
atch?v=SB-
EX: imfalcon or ifalcon NbFBE1HM
Passwords: CodingSpace#1
Activity 5: Evaluate Duration: 8 min Some good
tutorials:
https://scratch
Students will now explore the website and see some specific tutorials to get to .mit.edu/proje
know how to use the website. They should start choosing one tutorial for the cts/editor/?tut
next lesson. orial=all

Tutorials to tell them to look up and choose one from these: Make a Clicker (Make sure to
Game, make a chase game, animate a character, and create a story. create an
account
yourself to be
This tutorials for them to look up will be in a PowerPoint as a list to show them
able to open
and as well as they should write them on their notebook as check them off as
up all the
they complete (tell them to write a one to two sentence summary about them in
links)
their notebook).

The PowerPoint will be on google drive and it will its called

Tutorials.