Logic in Loops
Summary
Materials
Planning Your Program handout in Word
Project Requirements & Responses handout
Project Requirements & Responses handout in Word
Collaborative Project Rubric in Word
References:
Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments
Day 8
- Introduction of the Project (10 minutes)
- Brainstorm Ideas (15 minutes)
- Pair and Share (15 minutes)
- Select Your Partner and Project Idea (10 minutes)
- Homework
Day 9
- Finish Your Pseudocode (10 minutes)
- Pair and Share (10 minutes)
- Set up GitHub Repository for Collaboration (5 minutes)
- Write Code (25 minutes)
- Homework
Day 10
- Team meeting (5 minutes)
- Write Code (20 minutes)
- Feedback from Another Group (10 minutes)
- Revise Code (15 minutes)
- Homework
Day 11
- Finalize Code (10 minutes)
- 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 8
1. Introduction to the project (10 minutes)
- Explain to students the requirements for the collaborative project.
- 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.
4. Select Your partner and project idea (10 minutes)
- Students will select a partner:
- Groups should be pairs of students, or if numbers allow no more than three students.
- Teams will select their project.
- Students should share their partner and their project idea with you before class ends.
- Students will need to divide tasks among each other to begin the workflow for the project.
5. Homework
- Students should begin writing the pseudocode for their program.
Day 9
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 to finish.
3. Set ip GitHub Repository for collaboration (5 minutes)
- Task one student in each group with creating a GitHub Repository for their project.
- Other students will accept the invitation from their partners to collaborate.
4. Write code (25 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.
5. 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 10
1. Team meeting (5 minutes)
- Students should pair up with their partner 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?
2. Write code (20 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.
3. Feedback from another group (10 minutes)
- Encourage groups to switch and test each other's games/program and give feedback based on the project rubric and user experience.
4. Revise code (15 minutes)
- Based on feedback, encourage students to revise their code.
5. 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 11
1. 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
2. Respond to prompts and turn in project (40 minutes)
- Task students with completing the written responses to the prompts found on the Project Requirements & Responses page.
- Each partner needs to write responses to the prompts.
- They should work independently on this section of the project.