Experience CS

Lesson 4

Look at those lists

In this lesson, students are introduced to variables as placeholders for one item of data that can be accessed and changed by a computer program. They will create a variable to store a selected activity when a button is clicked. Students are then introduced to lists as a type of data that stores multiple related items. They create two lists within their app, and use an operator command to select randomized activities from their lists.

school

Grade 6

local_library

Subject Health

schedule

Length of lesson 50 minutes

Learning objective

Students will organize information into lists.

Standards

National Health Education Standards

2.8.4: Apply strategies and resources to manage influences that impact health and well-being.
4.8.1: Use effective communication skills across various modes of communication to support health and well-being of self and others.
5.8.5: Identify supports and barriers that affect decision making at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels.

CSTA Standards

2-AP-11: Create clearly named variables that represent different data types and perform operations on their values.
2-AP-13: Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs
3-AP-14: Use lists to simplify solutions, generalizing computational problems instead of repeatedly using simple variables.

Students will use the same project across multiple lessons.

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