Lesson 4

Create it

Students will be introduced to the concept of debugging. They will discuss different debugging strategies and work through a debugging activity where they focus on the importance of program initialization. Then, they will use their planning sheet from the previous lesson to create their word art program. To conclude the lesson, students will test their program with a partner.

school
Grade 3
local_library
Subject Art, Technology
schedule
Length of lesson 50 minutes

Learning objective

Students will develop a program from a plan.

Standards

CSTA Standards

  • 1B-AP-10: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals
  • 1B-AP-11: Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.
  • 1B-AP-15: Test and debug (identify and fix errors) programs.

National Arts Standards

  • MA:Cr2.1.3: Form, share, and test ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media arts productions.

Multi-lesson projects

Students will use the same project across multiple lessons.

Lesson contents

Scratch projects

Word art

Student resource

Multi-lesson project

Students will use the same project across multiple lessons