Code Jumper Curriculum: Lessons, Advanced Assessment (Lessons 9-19)

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Code Jumper Curriculum: Lessons

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Advanced Assessment

Lesson Objectives

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the advanced lesson concepts by using Code Jumper to program a game, story or song.

Expected Outcomes

All students: will create a program of their choice using advanced lesson concepts.
Most students: will create a program of their choice using advanced lesson concepts and complete the peer review process.
Some students: will create a program of their choice using advanced lesson concepts, utilize the peer review process and present their program to their teacher.

Lesson Plan Structure

Project planning and checklist

Project development

Project presentation

CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards

1A-AP-12: Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
1B-AP-08: Compare and refine multiple algorithms for the same task and determine which is the most appropriate.
1B-AP-09: Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.
1B-AP-10: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.

Materials

Science Journal Advanced Assessment Pages
Code Jumper kit
Assessment checklist

Overview

In this activity, students will brainstorm and develop their idea for the creation of a game, story, or song to program using Code Jumper demonstrating their prior learning.

Project Planning:

Instruction

Instruct students to locate their Project Planning page in their science journal:
- Brainstorm ideas for a game, story, or song to create including their learning from previous lessons
- Create a project title for the project and explain the overall goal of the game, story, or song.
- Discuss with students that they will use Code Jumper to develop their program.
Explain to students that all components in the assessment checklist need to be included in their program.

Program Creation:

Instruction

Explain to students that they will begin using Code Jumper to develop their game, story, or song.
Instruct students to utilize their assessment checklist as a guide to help them confirm they have included each of the components demonstrating their prior learning.
As students include each component, they need to check it off their assessment checklist.
(Teacher Note: Students may want to use their science journals as a way to keep track of where the requirements are within their game, story, or song.)

Peer Review:

Instruction

Explain to students that when they feel they have finished their project, they will need to find a peer who is also finished to complete the peer review.
When students are ready to review each other’s project, instruct students to use their peer’s assessment checklist as a guide as they experience the program developed by their peer.
Explain to students that after each person in their partner group has completed their review, to share their feedback, questions that came up during the review, and provide suggestions. Also, return their peer’s assessment checklist and share if they noticed any of the components not present in the project.
Prior to their project presentation, students will need to review their own original program using the project assessment rubric.

Project Presentation:

Demonstration of Learning

When students have created their game, story, or song and gone through the peer review process they are ready to show their program to the teacher.
Students will provide their teacher with the project assessment rubric to use while evaluating their original program using Code Jumper.
As students finish their project presentation, they will turn in their computer science journal to their teacher.

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